Most expensive new car crash ever?

[TW]Fox;18531106 said:
By not driving 700bhp road cars...
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... in the wet.

I just remember that Top Gear where JC reads out the letter that came with the Mercedes CLK AMG Black about how it is "savage in its setup and in anything other than the complete dry it is extremely tail happy and the TC should always be left on".

Then imagine a car with 150bhp more and possibly no traction control/very limited traction control and in the wet. TBH, i probably wouldn't have even driven it in the wet.
 
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I doubt it takes much of a knock to do that to a Zonda, You don't have much in the way of metal in front of you. How was does carbon fibre react in a crash? when not built for out right strength that is.
 
ZG002 said:
I doubt it takes much of a knock to do that to a Zonda, You don't have much in the way of metal in front of you. How was does carbon fibre react in a crash? when not built for out right strength that is.
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Granted but that almost certainly isn't a sub 80mph crash.

Aquaplanning can be unexpectedly horrendous tho.
 
[TW]Fox;18532722 said:
Yes, I forgot, the Zonda is a docile little thing below 5000rpm, putting out no more than 100bhp.
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If you've run out of argument, why not just stop posting instead of resorting to sarcasm in an attempt to get the 'last word'?
 
MikeHiow said:
If you've run out of argument, why not just stop posting instead of resorting to sarcasm in an attempt to get the 'last word'?
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Because I've not run out of argument and your opinion that driving a 700bhp Zonda without TCS is just like driving cars from before TCS was invented remains questionable at best.

It's an absolute animal of a car the likes of which didn't exist in large numbers back before TCS was invented. And before TCS was invented guess what people did with lairy cars from time to time?
 
[TW]Fox;18532779 said:
It's an absolute animal of a car the likes of which didn't exist in large numbers back before TCS was invented. And before TCS was invented guess what people did with lairy cars from time to time?
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Indeed. One of the 7 litre AC Cobras - a quick Google suggests that it was number CSX3303 - that was converted to 'Super Snake' specification (twin Paxton blowers, presumably that meets the definition of 'lairy'!) in the '60s was sold to a guy in San Francisco. His crash was rather more spectacular than even that Zonda one, given that he went off a cliff and into the Pacific....

People driving hideously powerful cars will crash from time to time, traction control or no traction control. Ye cannae change the laws o' physics :)
 
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