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jonbwfc
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Son writes off Dad's £275,000 car20 year old male driver, 19 year old female passenger, 225MPH supercar. This was never going to end well really, was it?
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| Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:17 pm |
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Paul1965
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And from 60 to 0 mph in 0.3 seconds.
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brataccas
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Nick
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And they both walked away with only minor injuries - that's truly amasing!
Imagine the shock if you were a witness, seeing the car spinning and rolling in a thunder of noise and then, after the car has settled, a couple of people emerge. I doubt I would believe my eyes for a few seconds.
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paulzolo
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Modern cars are much safer than older counterparts. I read, on another forum, about a rather horrific Crossfire accident involving aquaplaning on a motorway and crashing I to a bridge pillar. Both people in the car walked away from that. You would not be as lucky if you were in a similar smash in a car from the 1970s.
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Fogmeister
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LOL, I can't imagine that will take very long to investigate.
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Amnesia10
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finlay666
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Road condition, tyres, if the car has traction control/abs/other measures to maximise grip I nearly spun my FWD car on a roundabout going <20mph due to poor road conditions (hit ice in already snowy weather), had it pretty damn sideways for a heavyish fwd car I used to work with someone that had a heavily modded MR2 and spun it going down a motorway slip road in the dry at the speed limit, jabbed the throttle instead of gentle acceleration, it does happen _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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ProfessorF
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Tends to suggest his suspension geometry could've used a little work? 
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| Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:34 pm |
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finlay666
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His fitted turbo had a LOT of work shall we say (was stripped out on the seats etc and had a beefy turbo, was about 100bhp higher than stock and lighter) _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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ProfessorF
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Sounds like fun - but I still reckon his chassis needed a little tuning. 
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finlay666
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Probably but I forget what work he had done Probably a brown trouser moment spinning out lol _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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ProfessorF
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I wonder - while ringing around for insurance, one of the sales people heard where I lived, and proceeded to describe how he lost his heavily modified MR2 on a fairly casual, long sweeping bend (although much above 30 in your average family hatchback is pushing it - one of those places the limit's clearly there for a reason). Sent it backwards through the hedge.
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veato
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Looking at the state of the car he's obviously been going too fast for the corner.
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Fogmeister
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True, but given the amount of energy required to put a car into the state that one's in I'm pretty certain he wasn't doing 20mph 
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