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Save the Enzos! whoops, Teslas started as Lotuses, right? same principle.

I think I can help you out.

It's actually a rather common, and well studied occurrence. For instance here's a 70 MPH into a tree car split in half. Many cars have had extremely weak side impact designs for years. It's also one of the hardest things to protect against since there is no crumple zone on the side to absorb energy, unlike the front and back.

I bet across the country there are multiple cars split in half every single day, many from hitting narrow objects like light poles at relatively modest speeds, like 45MPH.

Multiple gasoline cars have spontaneously exploded in fire. Some even after recalls to prevent that.

A single sample here: http://www.wreckedexotics.com/458/458_20101108_3.shtml

I'm going to be checking http://www.wreckedexotics.com/ weekly.

I'm confused, do I go to the Cargo Letter or Airdisaster.com for news on this ?
Guess I should check Wrecked Exotics while I'm at it.

Your typical car doesn't go 200+...
Exotic's that can go that fast typically do have an internal structure like a roll cage, 5 point harness's are common, and they have airbags which racecars don't have. As an example of survivability only about half of these severe accidents with exotics were fatal.

Here's a picture of that one:

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics2009oct26/23tesla_20091020_001.shtml

Bullshit, here is a story of a guy who crashed an Enzo as 120MPH and walked away without a scratch. In fact in years of reading through wrecked exotics I can only remember a handful of fatalities yet I read about a traffic fatality in my local rag at least monthly.

Not the crash in question. It's just a neat site.

Look at the videos. I just tried to play one, and I was asked to install Zango software. Scary.

(I use Firefox but the videos play in Windows Media Player.)

*WARNING* The following link is posted merely as proof of my previous statement. It is an infected file. If you do not have sufficient adware protection, DO NOT VISIT THIS LINK! I am in NO WAY attempting to dupe anyone or facilitate the infection of anyones machines by posting this. I am merely providing PROOF. http://cds.zango.com/download.aspx?Id=bf265f33e036 180a63a5920ee72e45b3406ae13a26575e42dc73a200d593bf 75a7004a5dd3616f3d1f33285651b319bb0ee6be4361b1fd This link is labeled as "Insane Bike Stunts" updated May 30, 2006. Its is a direct cut and paste from the http://www.wreckedexotics.com/videos/ page.

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/special/enzo/

driving some ostentatious ride for the tiny-penised, and you secretly wished horrible things upon him? Well now your retribution can be realized--look no further. The wreckedexotics.com site, referenced in the article, is just amazing.

Anyone else think this is the US verison of this guy: http://www.wreckedexotics.com/special/enzo/

Speaking of that crash, this is a link to it.

Albeit, they don't do such a good job of it








And yes, I do have a lot of time on my hands today (I think someone's stealing CPU cycles from my computer to help calculate Bill Gates' taxes...)

You should look at http://www.wreckedexotics.com/ (http://www.wreckedexotics.com/corvette/corvette_0 50902_01.shtml) at their camaros and vettes. You should watch who you park behind ;).

I witnessed an accident where a ford fiesta (colt, sprint, whatever) caught the rear of a brand new Grand Cherokee. The Fiesta caught the rear quarter panel just behind the rear tire after running a stop sign. The Fiesta took a good hit to the hood, but kept driving and pulled over a few feet down. The Cherokee hopped (yes hopped) twice, then rolled completely over to the other side.

I drive a Civic. Defensively. I do not like being behind an SUV, or in front, as I can't see around them. I do not let people drive in my blind spot. I do not let people tailgate. I anticipate trafic changes 3-4 carlengths ahead.

I feel a lot safer in my Civic knowing that I can avoid an accident b/c of its size and agility. I can survive accidents b/c of the airbags and crumplezones. I can survive a rollover (as unlikely as that is).

I have driven larger cars. I have driven a 15 passenger van. I will not buy an SUV b/c they are specifically engineered to NOT meet the requirements of my Civic.

You should look at http://www.wreckedexotics.com/ (http://www.wreckedexotics.com/corvette/corvette_0 50902_01.shtml) at their camaros and vettes. You should watch who you park behind ;).

I witnessed an accident where a ford fiesta (colt, sprint, whatever) caught the rear of a brand new Grand Cherokee. The Fiesta caught the rear quarter panel just behind the rear tire after running a stop sign. The Fiesta took a good hit to the hood, but kept driving and pulled over a few feet down. The Cherokee hopped (yes hopped) twice, then rolled completely over to the other side.

I drive a Civic. Defensively. I do not like being behind an SUV, or in front, as I can't see around them. I do not let people drive in my blind spot. I do not let people tailgate. I anticipate trafic changes 3-4 carlengths ahead.

I feel a lot safer in my Civic knowing that I can avoid an accident b/c of its size and agility. I can survive accidents b/c of the airbags and crumplezones. I can survive a rollover (as unlikely as that is).

I have driven larger cars. I have driven a 15 passenger van. I will not buy an SUV b/c they are specifically engineered to NOT meet the requirements of my Civic.

For those that want to see:
http://www.mclarencars.com/content/sections/mainfr /cars.htm

McLaren are now working with Mercedes to produce the SLR class. Its a mean looking car:
http://www.mercedes-benz.com/com/d/home/products/p assengercars/slrclass/index.html

Not everyone is particulary careful with their F1 though:
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/mclaren/

It's also got some nice Bugatti pics as well :)

Steve.

Good link, check out this one. Hummer ought to put that in their ads, somehow I think this is really the appeal after all.

"How do you keep a passenger car on the road at 250+ MPH?"

The answer for most people is: you don't.

Is this your Mercedes

SUV solution.

Bullshit. You shouldn't take a Yugo and a M1 but a car with crumple zones and a car without crumple zones, each weighing the same.

I couldn't find any crash photos of an M1, but here are a couple M3s.

Bullshit. You shouldn't take a Yugo and a M1 but a car with crumple zones and a car without crumple zones, each weighing the same.

I couldn't find any crash photos of an M1, but here are a couple M3s.

So it is a documented feature according to some reactions. Here is somebody that didn't read the manual carefully. According to the accompanying text this driver stepped on the gas instead of the brakes, but my guess is she activated the easter egg.