Reply With QuotePoor guy, must be quite a shock being in such an awful accident. Hopefully says a lot about Ferrari's safety features that he walked away without a scratch.
Hope he had GAP insurance! Imagine writing off a car after 1 hour of ownership!
Poor guy, must be quite a shock being in such an awful accident. Hopefully says a lot about Ferrari's safety features that he walked away without a scratch.
Hope he had GAP insurance! Imagine writing off a car after 1 hour of ownership!
So how is a car that was last built in 2009 'new'? New to the owner, yes, and probably on Pirelli Corsas or similar with little tread so in wet conditions needed to be treated with extreme care.
They got the price about right though. Anywhere between £170,000 £240,00 although some trying for £300,00+.
Ran out of talent, lucky to walk away from that one.
Might want a 4 wheel drive car next time or some driver training.
that was quick - from zero to destruction in one hour.
I'm surprised insurance companies don't ask for driver training as a requirement. It's mental that you can pass your test one day and legally buy and drive a super car the next.Originally Posted by Vanguard
Surely the story isn't 'man crashes car' but quite why it caught fire. Is it my imagination or do a lot of supercars burn out after being crashed?
"A man of little significance"
Looks like that'll buff out..
Got some spare T cut if he wants to contact me :)
I don't think so (or that such a scenario happens frequently enough to be significant)
You can drive even a mundane car at speeds inappropriate to roads.
A fast car isn't inherently dangerous any more than a slow one is inherently safe.
It's the nut behind the wheel that matters!
I would imagine 'supercars' feature in a unrepresentatively small proportion of accidents, compared to, say, hot hatches or big turbo-diesel engined saloons.
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Yes it is.
The key word is ´inherently´.
Risk increases to the power of speed and a car that does not have the potential for speed is thus inherently safer. That is not even factoring in that generally faster cars are also heavier which again causes more havoc.
I know that junction well and you would have to be doing something very stupid and very illegal to end up off the road there.
Thankfully, only his pride was hurt on this occasion.
The local police edited their Facebook post to say that after speaking with witnesses they didn't believe speed to be a factor in the accident. Just sayin'...
Never read so much rubbish in my life..... so according to you a trabant is safer than a Ferrari??
Let me guess....your Daf is the safest car on the road.....🤔
This is a load of codswallop. A car is only as dangerous as the person behind the wheel.
"A man of little significance"
Speed might not have been, but booting it in an attempt to reach speed might have.
Cars don't generally launch themselves off the road all by themselves, even fast ones.
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I think its something to do with the very high fuel pressures they use for the fuel injection which is also emissions related.
Same thing guns. Yet a paintball gun is inherently safer than an AK47.
A straw man argument if ever there was one.
I mean, a toy car is safer than a real one, right?
High injection pressures that you refer to are a feature of direct injected petrol and modern Diesel engines. The 430 Scud which crashed gear uses neither, AFAIK it has traditional manifold injection. Later Ferraris, Audis, Porsches etc etc have gone over to DFI injection without a noticeable increase in fireballs on every street corner when an accident occurs.
It could have been worse, one of The Grand Tour trio could have been driving.
Imagine the angst and hand wringing then!
I seem to remember watching a bit of a fire fighter training video where they showed petrol and diesel being poured onto hot engine parts and they just smoked a lot, but no flames.
When they did the same with brake fluid though, it ignited.
I might be going mad though!
Any car can be driven too fast.
A supercar handles better at speed than a "regular" vehicle.
It usually boils down to the capability and (ir)responsibility of the driver.
You know, most of your posts make you look like you dislike any very good example of anything in existence...
Apples and oranges.
One is designed to kill. One isn't.
Somebody in my office knows the guy well. Apparently he is a wealthy car nut with plenty of supercar experience.
Evo ran a piece on the 599 HGTE shortly after it came out saying how unstable they found it in the wet. Ferrari threatened to sue Harry Metcalfe if he ever repeated the allegation. Then a friend of mine totalled his HGTE on a lamppost on the A4 when it aquaplaned only doing 40mph approaching the Hammersmith flyover.
So whilst I would ordinarily be in the pack here saying it was somebody inexperienced doing something stupid, I will follow the outcome with interest.
The "special" additions like a Scuderia and HGTE are set up in a manner that is far from ideal for poor weather. Best to leave them at home.
"Detecting a sense of damaged pride" LOL
Lots of people dislike stuff they don't understand...😉
I found the 430 to be quite difficult to handle in wet conditions. Easy to lose the backend to a fishtail even in relatively low acceleration on a damp road and prone to aquaplane on very wet road surfaces. Having the manettino at the 'hardest' setting would help, but not eliminate the trickiness.
TBH not a pleasant drive at all in heavy rain and requiring 100% full on concentration, or else....
I have similar problems with my Rover 75! :)
Is it the lwb rwd V8 version??
May I just say thank you very much. That complete load of cobblers has just cheered me up no end. Very amusing.
Do you any about chickens?
I live in Barnsley, and my Brother-in-law knows the owner. Apparently, was only doing 50mph. At first, I thought what-a-load of rubbish, but then after the updates about speed not being a factor, maybe it's true.
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