The Mercedes-Benz S 600 Pullman Guard: Development,
Testing And Production

post from eMercedesBenz | The Unofficial Mercedes-Benz Weblog on 23 September 2008 02:50:00 PM. © eMercedesBenz | The Unofficial Mercedes-Benz Weblog

Mercedes-Benz engineers always start thinking about safety at a very early stage. And the developers of the armoured special-protection models that go by the name of Mercedes-Benz Guard are no different. Their work begins with the specifications book as long as two years before the first pilot-production model of the conventional, non-armoured series even takes shape. At this early stage, special-protection development is based on the engineering design and production datasets which describe every last detail of the future model. The engineers use this information to determine where the protective elements can be housed in the bodyshell. This is primarily a question of the available space. Steel and plastic armour is installed so that it is inconspicuous and in no way diminishes the customer benefit delivered by the standard-production model – for instance, it has to be just as easy to get into the car, and the car must provide the same feeling of well-being and spaciousness.

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