If it was made of paper yes, that car is one of the 5 fastest on the planet for a reason, if it rolled it would easily explain the damage, a rear wheel blow out could have quite easily spun the car and flipped it without any misadventure on the drivers part.
Son writes off his dad's £275,000 supercar
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If it was made of paper yes, that car is one of the 5 fastest on the planet for a reason, if it rolled it would easily explain the damage, a rear wheel blow out could have quite easily spun the car and flipped it without any misadventure on the drivers part.
It was an Gumpert Apollo
Jalopnik said it wasn't mentioned who owned the car.
http://jalopnik.com/#!5790837/20+year+old-destroys-borrowed-400k-gumpert-apollo
Is it definitely his dad's ?
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What? The car isn't made of paper so what that comment is about I do not know.
I've rolled an 80s car at 70, all I lost was a wing mirror that got caught in the hedge. I've also had a blow out at just shy of 60mph in a mid 90s car (no driver aids etc.), nothing untoward happened there. I pulled over, changed wheels and went on my way. A 50mph blow out in a supercar would/should be fairly stable and would not flip the car and cause parts to be strewn all over the place.
He's obviously rolled it. It looks from the photos like the road is raised up slightly over fields leaving an incline either side of the road.
Leaving the road at 100 + and hitting that could quite easily roll it with enough force to cause that damage.
You can bet he wasn't doing 50 however.
Leaving the road at 100 + and hitting that could quite easily roll it with enough force to cause that damage.
You can bet he wasn't doing 50 however.
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Indeed. I have no doubt that the car probably rolled etc. but all that damage from 50mph is rather suspect to me.
Your 20, with a 19 year old (probably hot) female passanger, in a £275K Supercar.
Who seriously thinks he was doing the speed limit and not showing off ?
i'd be doing 0mph in a country lane somewhere with the engine turned off
Your 20, with a 19 year old (probably hot) female passanger, in a £275K Supercar.
Who seriously thinks he was doing the speed limit and not showing off ?
There's showing off, then there's being wreckless, out of your limit and putting your own and other peoples' lives at risk.
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i'd be doing 0mph in a country lane somewhere with the engine turned off
Engine on surely ?
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What? The car isn't made of paper so what that comment is about I do not know.
Ok, fibreglass, but you know what I mean, its hardly steel is it.
An 80's car would have been steel yes? much stronger than fibreglass, and the Apollo is RWD, if a rear tyre blew while he was going round the "sharp bend" where the accident occurred the car would have been spinning and possibly up on two wheels before he could even blink.
stop trying to force people to buy BMW's it's really rather tiresome
I think hes taking the mick outa that insurance prices thread where the OP thought power should have nothing to do with policy cost.
Also not all write-offs are total losses, some (cat C/D) are just uneconomical repairs
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As fox said