Here's How Bulletproof An Old Mercedes S-Class Isn't

It should come as no surprise that normal cars aren't as effective at deflecting bullets as the movies would have you believe...
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It’s a common movie trope: the good guys are getting shot at while escaping in a car, but so long as they duck from the windows, they’ll be fine. Or perhaps our heroes are on the run and under fire, finding cover behind some parked vehicles. But how would these scenarios play out IRL for the protagonists? Perhaps predictably, not very well.

As shown in this, um, informative video from gun-toting YouTuber Edwin Sarkissian - utilising a W220-generation Mercedes S-Class - a range of weapons including a shotgun, a 9mm pistol and several assault rifles can easily pierce a car’s passenger compartment. As for the whole using cars for cover thing, how effective that is depends on what kind of guns the bad guys are using.

Rounds from the shotgun and the Glock 19 pistol didn’t go all the way through the old Mercedes, but it wasn’t the same story for the Desert Eagle and various assault rifles deployed later in the video.

The more you know…

Video via Car Scoops

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Comments

Anonymous

Time to make true to life movies again…

04/10/2018 - 09:14 |
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Nethengeic (Rotary Fighter)

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Poor evo

04/13/2018 - 01:42 |
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Tomislav Celić

Reminds me of a time Jeremy put sand in the doors of an MX5 hoping it would be bulletproof

04/10/2018 - 09:14 |
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04/10/2018 - 09:15 |
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He did it wrong, he had to fit the sand sack there for it to be bulletproof

04/19/2018 - 21:04 |
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Jeremy S.

we need more gun

04/10/2018 - 11:19 |
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André Costa

Ummm… Assault “rivals”?

04/10/2018 - 11:55 |
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04/10/2018 - 12:08 |
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Anonymous

Poor S-Class

04/10/2018 - 12:14 |
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Anonymous

And so it’s time to bulletproof our car Top Gear style

04/10/2018 - 14:04 |
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Anonymous

Lots of US police cars have bullet proof door panels fitted as an option, but it takes 8 normal car doors to stop a bullet fired from a Magnum

04/10/2018 - 15:13 |
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HAYABUSA

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Then again no thug uses magnum rounds

04/11/2018 - 11:35 |
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Ray Sloan

did anyone see Hitman’s bodyguard?

04/11/2018 - 00:45 |
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Anonymous

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04/13/2018 - 22:42 |
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