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Well the thing speaks for itself really. At 22 wit ha 200bhp car I can't say I've gone flat out on/off road. You get to a point and think "that's enough", even on private road. It really seems odd to me how someone can be so careless, never mind being such an age with such a car!


http://link.brightcove.com/services/player...ctid=1392485027

http://www.ocala.com/article/20080127/BREA...3/BREAKING_NEWS


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Only been driving for 2 years, he never even used a manual :eek: and he drove a 500hp car. Why did his dad let him out in such a machine. :confused:
 
Absolutely horrible. You seriously wonder about these parents sometimes. Letting an 18yr old and his 5 friends go flatout (even if it is a runway) in 500bhp car.

"More money than sense" springs to mind.
 
Driver of BMW in fatal crash sought Web advice on making it go faster
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So it is, naturally, the Internet's fault that t his guy's father let him drive his 500hp car at the age of 18 and the guy subsequently killed himself.
 
That's pretty sad isn't it? Kids shouldn't be driving BMW M5's... That's the long and short. Doesn't matter if normally you are sensible, the temptation is still there and one rash decision or piece of bad judgement kills. At 18 I was driving a 1.3 Fiesta and later a 1.4 Renault 19. If I'd had an M5 to mess about in well I guess the same thing could have happened to me. I'd like to think not but.....
 
volospian said:
So it is, naturally, the Internet's fault that t his guy's father let him drive his 500hp car at the age of 18 and the guy subsequently killed himself.
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perhaps that's what people are suggesting? I doubt in all seriousness that anyone can really claim that the advice he was given was what caused the crash. From the printed internet forum quotes it would appear that the m5 owners were pretty concerned about his and other people safety rather than egging him on.

I just don't get it- at 18 my parents would never even have let me drive a car that size nevermind with that much power. Even now at 26 I think they would be pretty worried if I bought something with that much power although they couldn't do anything to stop me.
 
i remember what i was like pootling around in a 1.1 fiesta trying to make it go faster, letting an 18 year old out with 500Bhp under his right foot and with all his mates egging him on it was only ever going to end one way :(
 
mattpc said:
perhaps that's what people are suggesting? I doubt in all seriousness that anyone can really claim that the advice he was given was what caused the crash. From the printed internet forum quotes it would appear that the m5 owners were pretty concerned about his and other people safety rather than egging him on.
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My ire was more at the sensationalist headline than the actual forum itself. In the article all the replies are quite negative towards him, saying he should get more experience, be careful and so on, and yet the headline is still of the "Internet forum urges boy to kill himself" rubbish.
 
that is one hell of a mess.

i wouldnt trust myself with a car like that at my age. only 19 but still. my MR2 was fun and i could conrol that but that was only 170bhp. 500bhp is a completly different kettle of fish. i no i havent had enough experience to drive something like that. even though i have clocked up nearly 10k mile through europe and regualy drive around the country.

what sort of speed would have thing have left the runway?

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"I completely understand where you are coming from assuming that I am irresponsible ... that is definitely understandable. I do sometimes make bad decisions but I am young and I do drive safe and I will not endanger the lives of others."

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He should never have been let near the wheel of an M5, it requires a very mature level headed driver to make use of it sensibly, as do most performance cars.

It's a shame but inevitable.
 
volospian said:
My ire was more at the sensationalist headline than the actual forum itself. In the article all the replies are quite negative towards him, saying he should get more experience, be careful and so on, and yet the headline is still of the "Internet forum urges boy to kill himself" rubbish.
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That's the press tho, bend the truth in whatever way it suits them to sell a few papers. :o
 
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