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| Quote: The Gumpert Apollo has a top speed of 225mph (360kph) and goes from 0 to 60mph in less than three seconds. | |
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And from 60 to 0 mph in 0.3 seconds.
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Crumpled Gumpert |
Son writes off Dad's £275,000 car 20 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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| Author: | Paul1965 [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:45 pm ] | |||||||||
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And from 60 to 0 mph in 0.3 seconds. |
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| Author: | brataccas [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert |
looks like a batmobile prop now 
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| Author: | Nick [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert |
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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| Author: | paulzolo [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:41 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Crumpled Gumpert | |||||||||
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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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:18 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | |||||||||
LOL, I can't imagine that will take very long to investigate. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:11 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | ||||||||||||||||||
Is that with or without assistance from a brick wall or tree? |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:29 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | ||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:34 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | |||||||||
Tends to suggest his suspension geometry could've used a little work? 
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:45 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | |||||||||
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)
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:50 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | |||||||||
Sounds like fun - but I still reckon his chassis needed a little tuning. 
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:57 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert | |||||||||
Probably but I forget what work he had done Probably a brown trouser moment spinning out lol |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert |
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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| Author: | veato [ Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Crumpled Gumpert |
Looking at the state of the car he's obviously been going too fast for the corner. |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:24 am ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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