While browsing around YouTube, one can stumble on several videos of cars getting crashed, but how often do you see a Mercedes-Benz getting squashed like a bug?
Well, if you haven't already, this is your best chance. but bear in mind that this might be a fake. Just notice the perfectly-placed cliche on-camera interview from the beginning of the video or the engine missing from under that hood.
Word has it that the first-generation Mercedes-Benz CLK is supposed to belong to the loader operator's foreman, but that piece of information really can't help mitigate the "fakeness" of this clip.
However, the smash is pretty spectacular and shows what heavy construction machinery can do to a mere automobile. The poor CLK "tries" to evade from getting trampled, but in the end it gets flatter than an extremely chopped rat-rod.
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