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Message: <blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 2222572" data-attributes="member: 7488">In some modern car designs (Mercedes being one, along with Peugeot/Citroen and Renault), the engine is designed to drop in a collision to prevent it from being pushed up into the cabin as the crush zones are compromised.   But yea this is still dubious.  You would have have really hard offset impact though to sheer the mounts and launch the engine forward that far while being not directly in front of the tree.  Sounds really fishy.  As an insurance adjuster handling exclusively total loss salvage, I see dozens of totals a day.  Never seen anything like this.</blockquote>