Phuket Thailand - £840,000 Supercar

Caerphilly · #1 07-03-2007, 01:46

£840,000 Bugatti in world's costliest crash - AOL Motoring

0 - 60 in 2.5secs
top speed 250mph
doing 100 mph in the wet
fcuking Vauxhall Astra

Nice claim form to fill out......opps!

seafox · #2 07-03-2007, 01:51

Had a guy out here in California crash a Ferrari Enzo into a telephone pole when he was racing it down by the beach. Was supposedly doing 130 mph(about 200 kph) and it was definitely a write off, just about sheared the car in half.

faultytowers · #3 07-03-2007, 02:18

SOM NOM NA !!!!!

seafox · #4 07-03-2007, 02:29

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Originally Posted by faultytowers

SOM NOM NA !!!!!

100 mph in the rain. Doesn't matter what kind of non race car that he was driving, he was asking for trouble. Hopefully Daddy's little rich kid will learn his lesson and not endanger other peoples lives with his stupidity again.

faultytowers · #5 07-03-2007, 02:40

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Originally Posted by seafox

100 mph in the rain.

Hopefully Daddy's little rich kid will learn his lesson and not endanger other peoples lives with his stupidity again.

In a 40 mph area !!!!!.

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It is claimed the vehicle was being rented to the driver for £20,000 a day

Definately more money than sense.

stevem · #6 07-03-2007, 02:51

no sympathy, serves himself right.

louiswhitehouse · #7 08-03-2007, 02:54

gutted is the word that comes to mind nearly a million smashed up in front of your eyes.

seafox · #8 08-03-2007, 03:42

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Originally Posted by louiswhitehouse

gutted is the word that comes to mind nearly a million smashed up in front of your eyes.

and the guy deserves to be gutted for being so stupid.

driving like that in those conditions with absolutely no care for the consequences.

dawsey · #9 08-03-2007, 03:57

It was owned by an Asian businessman who was not best pleased when his younger brother crashed it.
It sounds like the idiot was posing in it as he was telling anyone who listened it was his car.

sledge038 · #10 08-03-2007, 10:26

here,s another story of a pinhead with too much money showing off.
ferrari 380 spider

Ferrari gets an unwanted nose job | NEWS.com.au

LivinLOS · #11 09-03-2007, 21:04

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Originally Posted by seafox

100 mph in the rain. Doesn't matter what kind of non race car that he was driving, he was asking for trouble. Hopefully Daddy's little rich kid will learn his lesson and not endanger other peoples lives with his stupidity again.

I used to push 150 MPH quite regularly on the autobahns.. The motor was actually hands off stable at that speed !! And wasnt even breaking the law..

100 MPH in a real sports car / supercar is not so fast.. That was 3rd gear on the 850 (it had 6).. Hell a golf gti is stable at a tonne..

LivinLOS · #12 09-03-2007, 21:05

Sorry just read that was in a 40 zone.. Yes hes a tit !!!

LivinLOS · #13 09-03-2007, 21:08

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Denver · #14 10-03-2007, 00:06

Oh how I wish I was driving the Astra! Yessssssssss!

"Tch! Bit of T-Cut'll get that out!" 5555555555

marc26 · #15 10-03-2007, 00:18

the kid's an idiot
no doubt

but i guarantee if he was driving a honda accord you wouldnt see the same reaction you see on this board

ive never seen people so appalled when people actually spend money

dawsey · #16 10-03-2007, 00:24

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Originally Posted by marc26

the kid's an idiot
no doubt

but i guarantee if he was driving a honda accord you wouldnt see the same reaction you see on this board

ive never seen people so appalled when people actually spend money

Well he wasn't a kid Paul. He was a guy in his 30's. He borrowed the car from his brother, and made out it was his. He was an absolute idiot driving at 100mph in the rain in a 40mph zone.

Of course there would be no reaction if the car was an Accord! That car, the Veyron is the worlds most expensive, and fastest car. No wonder people were writing about it. Nothing to do with being appalled at spending money at all, just the first time one has been damaged by an idiot.

seafox · #17 10-03-2007, 00:35

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Originally Posted by marc26

the kid's an idiot
no doubt

but i guarantee if he was driving a honda accord you wouldnt see the same reaction you see on this board

ive never seen people so appalled when people actually spend money

It wouldn't have been nationwide news in England if it had been a Honda.

But if it had been some idiot in my neighborhood driving 100 mph per hour in the rain on the twisting roads through the canyons or in Palos Verdes and I heard about it I would have said something abou that.

Money doesn't buy you a higher IQ, unluckily for the driver of the Bugatti.

marc26 · #18 10-03-2007, 00:37

i understand that the car is rare
but even if it was an 80k BMW, you guys would be ripping him

again, i dont condone driving like an idiot
but it seems if anyone spends any kind of money or actually like luxury items on this board, hes automatically an idiot

dawsey · #19 10-03-2007, 00:59

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Originally Posted by marc26

it seems if anyone spends any kind of money or actually like luxury items on this board, hes automatically an idiot

Not in my book. If anyone has the money to spend on luxuries, good luck to them.

LivinLOS · #20 10-03-2007, 08:12

I fully see Pauls point.. Not just with cars but people spending money on themselves is often perceived as wasteful here..

I would also say when it comes to fast cars.. If someone had crashed a morris minor at 60 MPH no one would blink an eye or say the driver was an idiot.. I would bet that a super car with its tyres, braking systems, forward viz, etc etc etc would out perform (stopping, handling, emergency manoeuvre) many old cars doing half its speed.

Yes hes a tit for doing 100 in a 40.. There may have been people around and it was probably a built up area.. Thats anti social..

seafox · #21 10-03-2007, 08:56

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Originally Posted by marc26

i understand that the car is rare
but even if it was an 80k BMW, you guys would be ripping him

again, i dont condone driving like an idiot
but it seems if anyone spends any kind of money or actually like luxury items on this board, hes automatically an idiot

Guess I am an idiot then. Own 2 Rolexes, used to own a Leica SLR. Flame away.

My whole contention is that no matter what kind of car he owned, he was an idiot for going that fast in the rain in an area with a restricted speed limit. Not in those conditions, no matter what kind of car that he was driving, unless it had been a formula 1 racer or Le Mans series car.

And he did it on a public roadway, not a closed circuit race track.

And I have driven Porsches, Ferraris, a Lamborghini, and lots of other nice cars, so I know what they can and can't do pretty much, and I would have never driven that car, or any other car like that in tiose conditions. My friends have money, not me.

This is all about how stupid he was for driving that car in those conditions, not how much money he spent for the car.

Jeez, if I had that kind of money I would spend it also. Ferrari F1, Enzo, Salleen, Gallardo, couple of Aston Martins, even a sweet little swedish number that I saw once.

sledge038 · #22 10-03-2007, 10:27

in my opinion, it,s just the stupid acts in the way these expensive cars have been badly damaged.
it,s as though, the drivers have no repsect or value for the dollar or how it is earned.
myself i have some nice things and i look after them. but, to wreck them in brainless circumstances is a waste.
im sure the drivers did have regrets though, well, i hope....