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Message: <blockquote data-quote="71buickfreak" data-source="post: 2222456" data-attributes="member: 8373">It can't. It is not possible. The forward momentum would have been transferred to the tree. Note how the hood is wrapped around the tree upside down. The engine would have hit the tree and been pushed backwards. You don't just rip motor mounts like that. It takes an incredible force to tear motor mounts, it is their job to keep the engine in the car. An impact can tear mounts, but it will absorb so much of the force, there would not be enough to continue through the front sheet metal and continue to skid 100 feet. A fuel explosion would not have ejected the engine either, as the tank pops in the rear of the car, not at the engine, and tank rupture, they don't have the force to propel a 1000-pound drivetrain 100 feet. Not even if it was bolted directly to the tank. There were munitions involved in my opinion. The engine would have to have been unbolted in order for this to have occurred. Mercedes are some of the safest cars on the road, this is not possible.The only stories I have found of engines coming out in wrecks were all rollovers. I can see it in the instance, but a simple head-on collision? doubtful.</blockquote>