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tImBoWe · Post by **tImBoWe** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:08 pm

Check out this new GT40 that was totaled by a speeding ambulance as the chap was pulling out of his driveway. Those Auckland drivers....?

x-rad · Post by **x-rad** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:45 pm

This is the first wrecked GT I have seen, and they are built about 1 mile from my home in Detroit, USA. Real shame, one of the few good cars to come out of Detroit...

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:42 am

Lucky its a left hand drive by the looks of it, did everyone survive? I remeber seeing on the news a ferrari F40 that crashed in a road event in the Northern Territory killing driver/navigator + 2 checkpoint officials, very sad but the ferrari did n't any more damaged than that GT40! I guess 'super cars' have very rigid chassis etc minimal crumple zone etc therefore not as survivable?

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:42 am

and the Ferrari probably only was doing 45mph at the time?

I dare you to crash in ANY car from -87 and not get hurt.

matt · Post by **matt** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:58 pm

Mats the question i was asking is are these 'super cars' less surviveable in accidents because they're so rigid, while other 'every day cars have crumple zones air bags + side air bags etc etc.
The F40 crashed while braking for the check point, the speed it was doing???

Last year i was involved in an accident. I was driving Honda Integra (girlfriends car) stopped at the end of traffic jam and a jeep renegade ran clean up the back of us (heard the brakes skid only for split second then bang!) It pushed us into the front of the car in front too . The honda was written off, front & rear plus side panels over wheels crushed. and yes it DID hurt!
Maybe it would have been worse if the honda didn't absorb the 4WD's energy/momentum?
The 4WD was hardly damaged at all, i guess they're rigid too without crumple zones etc.
Whats the point after an accident having a car thats 'less' bent you don't get out of? or a car totally bent/written off that you can walk away from?
Maybe some of these "super car owners" need to think about this before thinking they're "super car drivers"
otherwise you crash it

its bye bye

Alfa-Alfa · Post by **Alfa-Alfa** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:21 pm

Funny thing is, I am from Auckland and this place has the worst drivers on the planet... less then a year ago some dork turned off all the electronic aids in his Lambo Gallardo, and to cut the story short, climbed a power pole with his latin beast...

Auckland - where good cars die.

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:38 am

Sounds like a good Highway Patrol episode......

hang on it must be filmed in Auckland too ha ha!

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:18 am

Supercars must pass the same tests as a normal car. They focus on other stuff though, maybe not so much pedestrians and seat belt reminders.

The company I'm at now have crash tested a Lambo and a Koeningsegg...

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:23 pm

Mats wrote:
The company I'm at now have crash tested a Lambo and a Koeningsegg...

Ouch, who ever pressed the button to start that test is going to hell

What where the results? other than one dead lambo did it pass to standard or exceed set standard with flying colours?

Here's some more supercar owner mishaps

http://www.pbase.com/partyman/ferarri_crash

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:35 pm

The real wierd thing is getting a brand new supercar and paint it "crash orange" with a brush...

MALDI · Post by **MALDI** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:02 pm

Knock yourselves out boys

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:22 pm

Wow MALDI, there's even a lambo driver in there with his own web site claiming his 230,000 Euro Lambo had a mechanical "defect" while on a long straight strech of autobahn causing him to lose control at 220-240kmh !

http://www.lambounfall.de/indexe.html

geez Mats i wonder what those guys are thinking when they dip a paint brush into a bucket of bright orange paint and start spreading it all over a new lambo........i just couldn't do it

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:59 am

It's a dirty job but someone has to do it...

Lambos come in "safety orange" you know.

Que Boludo · Post by **Que Boludo** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:38 pm

I would use a roller, much quicker.

Some of them crashes on the "Bad Wrecks" are frightening.

Makes me think....Sh*t!

Que Boludo · Post by **Que Boludo** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:50 pm

I love the "Crash Art"

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos ... _006.shtml

GT40 wasted by ambulance

wreckedexotics.com