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    Mercedes-Benz ESF Prototypes

    Those were prototypes in the 1970s to test different safety-systems (bigger bumpers and so on) due to stronger US-safety-regulations.

    Each car got a number, one of them is in the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart/Germany today.
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    Esf #2
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    Very interesting.

    Thanks for sharing.
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    As said before: one car is in the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart. It is ESF22

    Here my pics from my visits there in 2007 and 2008
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