Another story of yet drivers not being able to handle the power of the car and also not knowing how to handle it safely in the eyes of the public highway! Lucky he hit a tree and not a car holding a family of 4!
I think it held up extremely well for a 100mph impact! Doors are still in shape, interior isn't too bad...
surprised he survived the impact on that one, must have been very messy internal bleeding to deal with...
Yeah, I learned that lesson the hard way too (but I wasn't driving an R32!) and still am sh*t scared at times!Was my mam Peugeot 306 )The guy in the Audi S3 in this part of the forum also has very likely learned his lesson after that mishap this week! Drive safe guys, it's not worth (literally) your life! and more importantly, the life of your pride and joy, haha (priorities ) Edited by: liam_bettinson
Makes me want to avoid R32's and Mk4's. Most modern cars that have head on collisions are designed to push the engine and gearbox under the car rather than into it. nasty
most cars aren't designed to be driven into huge immobile objects at twice the national speed limit....
There's no way that car hit a tree at 100. Hitting something solid at 70 (ie coming to a dead immediate halt) will cause your vital organs to rupture and you'll die very quickly. I'd say it's had an impact at 50-60mph at most. But still, the car's stood up well. I reckon the same accident at 35-40 would have killed me if I was in my Scirocco.
you haven't seen the car. I have. it took me a week to strip it it was so bent. the engine block was cracked in half the prop was bent, the front foot of the tunnel was actually compressed into about 3" I had to cut the floorpan up to get the seats out the rear diff had been knocked clean out of the rear subframe the bumper iron ended up BEHIND the front turrets there were a lot of needles and facemasks in the car. The pedal box was almost touching the seats. and it was a 300bhp AmD tuned R32, with laser deflects, road pilot and a radar detector, it won't have been going slow, believe me. I still have my doubts that the story about the driver coming to see the car 3 months after the accident being even remotely true.
I'm not saying it was going slow, but if it hit a tree it would have come to an instant stop because tree's don't move, and if you come to an instant stop at speeds over 60mph, you can't survive the deceleration no matter what caryou're in. If the occupants survived, they must therefore have been travelling at less than 60 when they hit the tree. Edited by: Scirocco 02
God damn! very lucky person to walk away from that no matter what the speed was! I take it me asking for the pedal covers and deal pedal is out of the question
should only cost a few 100 to fix i reckon. Very nasty only ever had 1 nasty accident in my first car. biege fiesta mk1!! hope i dont do it to my golf mk1 !!
