Honey, I Wrecked the Porsche

yahoo Finance ^ | 06/15/2007 | by Jennifer Saranow

[Larry Lucido]

Never mind all that. Where are the deep pockets?

[Malsua]

There’s a Lamborghini dealer near where I work...so we see them around here fairly often. I saw a guy goose it and just about lose it as the ass went all squirelly.

This also reminds me of that girl last Halloween that popped her skull like a zit between Toll Booth and the Porsche after she careened across several lanes of traffic after clipping someone else.

[-YYZ-]

I, as a fan of high-performance vehicles of all sorts, hate to say it, but most of these vehicles are absolutely pointless on the street. Most of them have limits that are way beyond the average owner’s abilities to push, even on a racetrack. Even so, if I had the money I’d have a garage full of them.

I also like motorcycles, and what IS a little scary is that any nimrod who can scrape together $12,000 (or so), or financing for it, can go out and buy a nice new litre-class sportbike, or for a few bucks more an open-class bike like a Suzuki Hayabusa or Kawasaki ZX-14. 180 HP, 750 lbs bike and rider combo, how man HP/lb does that work out to? .24, quite a bit more than that new Ferrari mentioned in the article. That kind of power can get a careless rider way in over their head, way quick. In fact, the only place you can exploit them to their fullest is on a racetrack, and even then a lot of experience is required.

[goldstategop]

If you have money to burn, I suppose wrecking a car that costs as much as my condo is no big deal. Most of us consider our car our most important investment after our home and take care of it accordingly.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

When I was a valet in Newport Beach, CA I watched a guy sidestep the clutch of his new lambo and go backwards into a wall. Myself and another valet say him put the stick into "first gear" on your typical car (not italian sports cars) rev it and slide off. WHAM! right back into the wall.

Reverse is where 1st is on some of the lambos and 1st is where 2nd should be.

MY knees buckled when he did it.

[CollegeRepublican]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG9Eo8JjLtY

Eddie Grifffen crashing an Enzo. Opps...

[BurbankKarl]

I was reading about the latest Mercedes-Benz SLR 722 in Motor Trend 7/07....top speed 209 mph.

They tested one in Dubai....150 to be built, and they arent even going on sale, all pre-sold.

[Sherman Logan]

If Adnan wants to kill himself driving like an idiot, it’s fine with me. I object to his endangering my family by doing so on the public roads.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

BK, it's so fast it woudn't stay on the screen.! Only left a red X !!

[BurbankKarl]

hmm, how about this one

[absolootezer0]

Exactly...so we should have horsepower limits in place right? No one should have a car that has any more than say about 40 horsepower and 5 forward gears.

nah. these people should just learn how to drive.

[Covenantor]

http://www.ehowa.com/features/alwayswearyourhelmet.shtml

[Truth29]

He lets you drive it?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Better. Now hear me out. This thing is probably Crazy-fast. But it looks like a MBZ SL roadster. When are they going to go off the hook with a redesign?

And add the FREEKIN gullwings back! ;o)

[CaptainK]

Speak of the devil

Deadly Father's Day Doctor and dad of three dies as Ferrari speeds off LIE, and overturned truck kills driver of car near LIE

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-lilie185260783jun18,0,447423.story?coll=ny-linews-print

[the crow]

bump for later. love your tagline buffy! 8-)

[the crow]

bump for later. love your tagline buffy! 8-)

[AFreeBird]

Well then how about renting some time at a racetrack? 200mph on freeways is more than slightly irresponsible.

Or take it to Germany for a trip on the Autobaun. If you can afford the car, you should be able to afford to ship it over there for your 200mph vacation.

Bill Cosby spoke about 200mph. I hear his Shelby Cobra scared him so much; he parked it.

BTW: The History Channel had a show on the Autobaun last weekend. They had a Porsche with a two man camera crew crammed into it. They were doing 212MPH... at night!

Sweet road though. 27inches of rod bed; meticulously maintained, less than a 7% grade change, and long sweeping turns (long straight lines lull you to sleep). And a drivers license requires personal training, and the license itself is about $1500 dollars. Tailgating can bring a $20K fine. Yep, you read that correctly. 20 thousand dollar fine for tailgating!

[BurbankKarl]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Adnan K. Mehmood ....says he has driven his 2006 Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster faster than 191 mph a number of times on freeways. "I want to go to 200 mph," Mr. Mehmood says.

Well then how about renting some time at a racetrack? 200mph on freeways is more than slightly irresponsible.

Exactly. Take it to the track, attend some track driving schools and track events and learn how to actually drive that Lamborghini the way it was meant to be driven. The regional chapters of the Porsche and BMW car clubs put on some excellent events, for example. If you can afford a Lambo, you can afford to take it to the track.

Certainly beats taking that expensive, beautiful piece of automotive art onto a freeway, flooring the gas pedal, endangering every other driver out there, and wrecking the car like a complete tool.