One very trashed RS...

Goliath · 4 May 2006 at 20:53

Not mine fortunately. Was up at PumaSpeed getting the RS serviced today, and saw this outside. Apparently the driver walked away with cuts and bruises.......

You can't really see on the pic above but there is virtually no blue paint left on the bonnet - it's all been scraped off as the car slid upside down on the road!

Goliath · 4 May 2006 at 20:54

More sliding evidence:

Wouldn't want to be sat there:

Astoundingly, didn't set the airbags off:

A potential cause. WanLi ditchfinders on the front of an RS?

Goliath · 4 May 2006 at 20:59

No idea what happened, Tony at Pumaspeed basically bought it as is - he wants the engine/gearbox out of it. (just about the only thing that could be salvaged)

Goliath · 4 May 2006 at 21:18

We were thinking that as the airbags didn't go off it wasn't a frontal impact, so a likely scenario is something (tyre, strut etc) let go at the front and "dug in" flipping the car over. Must have been doing some speed though.

Oracle said:
Believe it or not it was either faulty or he wasnt wearing a seatbelt!

He walked away from it, so I'm guessing the seatbelt was in use.