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Nevada police find wrecked $300,000 McLaren supercar in the desert, but no one with it
www.foxnews.com ^ | By Gary Gastelu

Posted on 05/15/2018 10:38:07 AM PDT by Red Badger

Police say seatbelts saved the lives of two people who crashed their $300,000 supercar in the Nevada desert, but the vehicle’s engineers deserve a fair share of the credit.

The Nevada Highway Patrol found the totaled McLaren 720 about 70 yards off a road near Lake Mead last week, with damage suggesting that it had rolled at least once as it just missed falling down a ravine.

The 710 horsepower coupé is one of the quickest cars in the world, and has a top speed of 212 mph. It features a carbon fiber passenger cell, similar to a racecar’s, that’s designed to be both lightweight and extremely strong.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: mclaren; mclarensupercar; nevada
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To: mowowie

+1


41 posted on 05/15/2018 11:54:48 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT!)
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To: AppyPappy

“A little bondo and some paint....”

Just what I was thinking. A good way to get a Heavily discounted McLaren on the cheap.


42 posted on 05/15/2018 11:55:05 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Fightin Whitey

43 posted on 05/15/2018 11:57:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mathews

When i was 19 i owned almost that exact Z-28.
mine was a ‘78, silver with black interior.
Was a beautiful, perfect car.....i also totaled it in a similar fashion.
Totaled with not a scratch on the body......ugh.
Hit a curb head on around a curve in the rain with the brakes engaged, wheels locked up... 1986.
Acting foolishly after dropping a friend off and trying to get back to the party and the girl i just met.. fast.
4 Brand new Eagle GT’s ruined along with the car....still owed about a grand on my brand new Goodyear credit card.

ARGH!


44 posted on 05/15/2018 12:03:27 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Magnum44

See? Just what I told you.


45 posted on 05/15/2018 12:08:08 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowboy)
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To: ltc8k6

It was a mystery until they located the driver and passenger at the hospital..................


46 posted on 05/15/2018 12:12:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: dfwgator

Great!

I’d forgotten about that one.


47 posted on 05/15/2018 12:40:58 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: ltc8k6

This same female owner has been involved in at least one road-rage incident at a Corsa America Rally, in the very same car.


48 posted on 05/15/2018 12:43:47 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Red Badger
It looks like the drivers door opened OK,

but what is that attached to it? A side airbag?

49 posted on 05/15/2018 12:50:30 PM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: Does so

I think so..................


50 posted on 05/15/2018 12:52:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: dfwgator

One of my all time favorite cartoons. I had it posted on my cubicle at one time, and that was my first thought when I saw the picture.


51 posted on 05/15/2018 12:55:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Does so

Better view:

https://www.motor1.com/news/242062/mclaren-720-s-bad-crash/


52 posted on 05/15/2018 12:57:00 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: circlecity
...has a taste for fancy sports cars.

That's why he drove a Pontiac Aztek? He didn't have the Charger for long.

53 posted on 05/15/2018 1:06:18 PM PDT by hattend
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To: hattend

He sure had fun with the charger while he had it tho’, thus the reference.


54 posted on 05/15/2018 1:27:32 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: Red Badger

Silly people. A flux capacitor only works with a DeLorean.


55 posted on 05/15/2018 1:35:36 PM PDT by klgator
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To: Red Badger
Lady: "But that's a priceless McClaren supercar!"
Inspector Clouseau: "Not anymore"
56 posted on 05/15/2018 1:47:53 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Schrödinger was the feline fancier.


57 posted on 05/15/2018 2:32:30 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (I refuse to be cannon fodder in the Left's war on reality!)
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To: Red Badger

I saw them come into town, (Las Vegas) as they came down 40 into Kingman and then to Vegas. About 40 cars or so cars passed us. Saw some later while we were going to Boulder City. There was a small group of cars...wonder if one of those cars was the one pictured.


58 posted on 05/15/2018 9:19:31 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: abigkahuna

I remember a couple of months ago, seeing a long line of super sports cars come thru our town, Fort Walton Beach Florida.

While seeing super cars is not unusual here, seeing that many at one time/place on the road is.............


59 posted on 05/16/2018 6:14:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Red Badger

I will move to Fort Walton Beach some day. You are very fortunate.


60 posted on 05/16/2018 6:19:57 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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