Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:42:54 +0100
> From: Arne Henriksen <300TDT@henriksens.net>
> Subject: [DIESEL] New MB crash-test invented in Norway...
>
> Hi guys, thought I'd give you a brief update on the latest in
> crash-testing MB's over here... :-)
>
> Yesterday a rather large participant in the ongoing NATO military
> excercise over here right now, the 'Battle Griffin', somehow managed to
> not see an almost new W203, C220CDI and literally drove OVER it.
>
> This:
> http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00514/Leopard_514766f.jpg
> http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00514/leopard1_514386f.jpg
> against this:
> http://www.vg.no/bilder/edrum/1109827822584_168.jpg
>
> The C-class driver, 57, stopped the car at the side of the (somewhat
> narrow) road when meeting the Leopard tank, patiently waiting for it to
> pass.
> When the tank started driving OVER his left fender he had to try to get
> away, but sitting in the belts he just managed to lean over agaist his
> wife at the passenger side.
> The 40-ton Leopard drove over the whole car from front to back before
> coming to a stop - and left the C-class in a somewhat totalled :-)
> condition, but without a scratch on its passengers!
> Military and civil investigation is going on to find out just why the tank
> driver didn't see the car, but rumours says he was sitting down, seeing
> only through the periscope glasses...
>
> More coverage, in our native language though, here:
> http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/midtnorge/article457621.ece
> http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=103064
> http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2005/03/03/425063.html
>
> Regards,
> Arne, Trondheim - NORWAY
> '87 S124 300TD Turbo 2001- 278'-367'km
> '89 W201 190E 1998- 165'-269'km
> '79 W123 240D (RIP) 1987-1999 302'-570'km
> http://mercedes.henriksens.net/