This S-Class (W140) offset crash test looks good. It's an early W140 prototype with "Karrosseriesickte" (like W126 and W116) and "Heckversion B", neither of which made it into production.

    A 500SE S-Class (W126) does well in the frontal offset crash test with 40% overlap and 55 km/h (or ~35 MPH). It's the first vehicle specifically designed to withstand offset crashes, and uses a forked front end structure to distribute the collision energy across the front of the hardcore passenger safety cage. It works.

    "A 350SE after a 50 km/h crash test - the passenger section remained intact".
    The photo is from 1972 and the car obviously was frontally crashed into a wall.
    In the beginning 1970`s car safety began to play a big role in the public and led to many drastic enhancements in the construction of new models.