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Mercedes A-Class Failed The Moose Test #shorts
Mercedes A-Class Failed The Moose Test #shorts
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Is that the only place that this test is done?? Is it the same one that got the Hilux in trouble?
Yep.
Yes and in some EU countries it was mandatory for the type approval; nowadays it’s an EU-wide approval; but not sure if the moose-test is included in the EG 2017/1151 mandate (i.e. you can look that document up).
Motor week for PBS has MOOSE tested every car they were ever writing about
Hey, that’s offensive! He’s not that big and ugly
I forgot about the part of the review and thought you’d already wrecked the damn thing. lol
Nice 9:30 Club tshirt. Repping DC’s music venue!
I’ve driven the A180 manual and it was a surprisingly slow car. But all and all I liked the concept, it reminds me of the small Japanese key cars.
*kei cars
I’d occasionally see Kei cars on the roads here in Singapore, and usually Kei vans at that, and your comment reminded me of when I’d see those.
The concept of the A-Class made no sense and made the car worse in every way. They never even utilised that massively compromising and wasteful lifted floor system for any production cars…so it was all for nothing!
@Kevin Bhasi I saw loads of those tiny vans when I visited Kioto. They were a perfect fit for parking in narrow streets.
@Pistonburner and still from a practical point of view it made more sense than the current A-Class.
One major Upgrade after the moose test failure was to change the tire size from 175/65 15 to 195 50 15 and lower stiffer springs
Wouldn’t stiffer springs make it worse?
@Wei No. Less body movement.
@Weihell no, stiff springs are for sports car.
@Wei Why?
@Veloxy yes that what i mean but i misread the comment as saying “stiffer springs” but they meant ot say “looser springs”
I remember watching this on the TV.
actually it was on “trafikmagasinet” a swedish tv show about cars not a magazine . i remember when i was growing up trafikmagazinet was the only show with cars i watched every episode with reviews on kidseats and nissan sunnys hoping once in the season if i was lucky they reviewed some “exotic car”
Maybe now they would as I believe Koenigsegg is the only Swedish car manufacturer.
It wasnt trafikmagasinet. It was “Teknikens Värld”. So actually a magazine.
How many moose where they expecting?
Yeah and my sure there is a better way to avoid them than yanking the wheel back and forth repeatedly like a slalom. Jokes..
See people the germans are not the holy grail, the early audi tts also had problems and had to be recalled porches were the same, they called them widow maker’s.
Doug’s the kind of guy to have nightmares about mooses now
😂😂😂😂
meese*
**moose
@Ben R *mooseys
The plural of moose should be meese >:(
Not only that, the changed wheel size and lowered the suspension as well as stiffened it
Does that make it worse or better? Just curious
It makes ir better
@N A 7 O U L better ofc otherwise it wouldn’t make much sense haha
@Gx got it. Thank you for making it make sense to me 🙂
My dad owns a Mercedes Benz dealership here in Spain, he told me it was crazy when they had to adapt all those A class!! So much work because they had already sold quite a few
They were quite common in Spain. Now it’s really difficult to see one.
Then, after that, they started to catch on fire, and then they named it the b class. kia also did this with the optima known as the k5.
Was actually pretty hilarious. Mercedes first refused to take any blame. They blamed the test was wrong haha.
Then two different German car magazines also rolled the car. But according to MB it was still the fault of the test..
Then shortly after Mercedes rolled the car themselves haha. On their own test track in front of a bunch of car journalists that happened to catch everything on camera. And after that it was all over with MBs excuses lol.
Also the name “moose test” was a bit of a derogatory term that MB came up with to somehow hint that it was just a very Sweden specific test just for Swedish circumstances with little importance to anyone else.
But it was never originally called the moose test in Sweden. Since it had nothing to specifically do with mooses. It was a test to simulate ordinary people panicking to avoid a sudden obstacle appearing in front of them. Swirling into oncoming traffic for example and back again.. overcorrecting.. back and forth. The car should be able to handle that. But it didnt.
The obstacle could be a child running out in the street. A car driving out in front of you. Or of course an animal like a moose.
But it was a term made up to try and belittle the test like it was something that would just happen in Sweden.
But as I wrote in another comment it all came to an end when MB themselves rolled the car right in front of a couple of journalists when they were going to try and prove that there was nothing wrong with it lol.
Looks like a Kia Rio
Hey Doug can you please review a Vw Jetta Hybrid
Please review alpha Romeo Brera
This was a big scoop of Mr. Robert Collin from the Swedish magazine Teknikens Värld (no TV show). This was in October 1997. 20 months later the Merc flipped at Le Mans (I was there). Difficult times for MB… Robert is still active as motor journalist in Sweden. A Swede designed the gyro tech that was installed in the A Class to save the car.