Some people live with the general idea that car makers only test their future vehicles by driving them around different parts of the planet engulfed in heavy-on-the-eye camouflage to accumulate miles and that's about it.
More serious car makers take their testing to another level though, and among those we find Daimler AG, who are losing quite a lot of pre-production prototypes by testing them in various conditions until they are pretty much destroyed.
A perfect example for the above statement comes from the following spy video. In it, you can see a pre-production version of the upcoming third generation of the smart fortwo getting put through its paces and beyond in a Daimler AG testing facility.
We realize all the procedures were designed to test the car's behavior during certain unexpected occasions, but we simply fail to understand the reasoning behind the repeated mild crash tests from the final seconds of the footage. We won't spoil more, since it's really worth watching the whole shenanigans. It's also worth mentioning that you shouldn't try to recreate the Dukes of Hazzard scenes seen here with your own smart fortwo - or any other car for that matter.
Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project. Full profile
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