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AssigneeDaimlerChrysler AG
InventorsHans-Georg Bartesch, Kark-Heinz Baumann, Ulrich Bruhnke, Rainer Justen, Jürgen Kohler
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The invention relates to a motor vehicle with a supporting structure provided at one end of a safety passenger compartment with a crumple zone and two wheel arches located in the vicinity of the crumple zone on the sides. A wheel is located in each respective wheel arch held by wheel guide members. A deflecting area extends diagonally to a central lengthwise axis of the motor vehicle for the associated wheel, between the safety passenger compartment and the rolling circumference of the two wheels in the straight-ahead position of the deflecting surface for the associated wheel against which the wheel moved by the crash-produced deformation of the crumple zone against the deflecting surface is deflected past the end of the safety passenger compartment. The deflecting surfaces are diagonally downwardly directed deflecting ramps by which the wheels are directed toward the safety passenger compartment and below the floor of the motor vehicle as the crumple zone collapses.
Motor vehicle with a supporting structure provided at at least one end of a safety passenger compartment with a crumple zone and two laterally located wheel arches in each of which a wheel is located whereby, between the safety passenger compartment and a rolling circumference of the two wheels associated with the crumple zone in a straight-ahead position, a deflecting surface running diagonally to a central lengthwise axis of the motor vehicle is provided for the associated wheel, said deflecting surface being adapted to deflect the wheel that is operably moved against the deflecting surface by a crash-produced deformation of the crumple zone past the end of the passenger compartment,
A motor vehicle comprising:
A method of making a motor vehicle comprising:
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