I'm still amazed that gasoline is capable of doing such major league damage. One would expect much higher powered explosives involved especially since they were mentioned.But I'm no expert on the topic.
“...the bentley/rolls,around 5,000 lbs. which are basically the same car.”
Uh, NO!
They USED to be the same, however in July of ‘98 Volkswagen (with Ferdinand Piëch as President) purchased Rolls Royce and Bentley for a VERY large sum...
- HOWEVER -
BMW had already acquired all of the rights to Rolls Royce motorcars and Ferdinand Piëch vastly over paid for the Rolls Royce aircraft propulsion division...this led to his leaving the company a few years later after no-one wanted to purchase ‘His Baby’ — a $120,000 Volkswagen Phaeton.
Any Bentley is just a VW/Audi with nicer trappings...
Can’t really talk about it on the web here but there are some very simple, cheap, ways to demonstrate how violent gasoline vapor can be.