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Originally posted by legion
That doesn't surpise me. In order to do well in crash tests, you need a car that falls apart (dissipates energy).
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Even so, and whether or not cars then dissipated energy, compared to similar cars using similar safety guidelines as the small Mercedes, the C-Class still came in last place. This was, IIRC, in the late '80s. There were a few other tests in which I recall it failing outright.
I remember being very surprised by this as M-B had at that time been always noted for safety.