Posted on 09/29/2014 7:33:59 PM PDT by xp38
enough to make one weep
Design Flaw.
Epic Fail on Porche’s part.
Should have bought a Corvette.
“Epic Fail on Porches part.”
Pardon me. That should read:
“Epic Fail on Porsches part.”
I wonder if his insurance will go up?
It’ll buff out.
With all the bucks expended on the design, they could not have provided for insulation encasement of the pipes? Bare pipes are not only asking for ignition hazard they are asking for personal burn hazard. Even motorcycle pipes are generally shielded.
Huh?
Overflowing gas would likeliest be from the $50 nozzle on the dispenser. A lot of them have ‘Replace by’ dates stamped or molded in to them. They wear out and do malfunction.
Another news item on this said he took delivery on Sept 3rd....didn’t even get a full month usage out of it. I would be curious as to what the insurance would be on a near million dollar car in the first place.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Werkerle, you did WHAT?"
marshmallows?
Generally, gas spills at the filler are harmless unless someone’s stupid enough to be using fire or other sources of ignition nearby. Even if a nozzle sensor did not fail, maybe someone could be clumsy when removing the nozzle. That should not be the cause of getting gas on a part that is hot enough to ignite the gas.
Having gas overflow out of the tank is a not-uncommon occurrence, and should be taken into account in the design and design review process.
For such a common occurrence to result in such a catastrophic and massively injury-and-death possible event as a CAR FIRE - by such a clear path of cause - is engineering incompetence.
With that much horsepower it is really overpowered. It would be easy to wreck, or at least it seems to me like it would be.
It’s 0-60 time must be way below 4 seconds.
And that children is what is called a hose job or more specifically being a hoser as in gas hose. So it was $845,000 is that Canadian or US because it would only be a paltry $757,558.77 at today's exchange rate.
Used BMW i8 Sells For 50% More Than MSRP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3209123/posts
Yep. I see the point.
No company would use such a design on a street car. Wouldn’t even be a good design on a race car.
How is it possible for a car to cost that much?
If you have to ask you can’t afford it....
I had a customer who had owned two Enzo Ferraris and two AMG Mercedes. That would be another interesting insurance bill.
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