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Why are people getting wound up so much, someone doesnt think supercars should be allowed/used on public roads. Thats just their opinion ffs.
FWIW my opinion is I dont care what people drive, as long as they do it safely. Id rather see celebrities doing 100mph down A roads than the local chav doing 40-50 down 30mph roads. I wonder which one causes more peds and innocent motorists to die.
I cannot understand how someone cannot like any form of dance music! That must really limit what music you listen to, so I imagine you like no music at all
Oh my giddy aunt!
[slaps forehead]
Please re-read my post and then complete this multiple choice question:
Is the tone of my post mentioning 'dance music':
a) Serious
b) Tongue in cheek
c) Don't know
Unless, of course, you have a super-dry sense of humour, in which case:
LOL 😀
The choice of car is irrelevant but treating shared roads like a personal race track whether you are in a million pound car or a souped up saxo is both arrogant and selfish.
"I rest my case"
I wish you'd rest your typing fingers. You sir, are the internet version of a gobshite.
The guy just asked a reasonable question prompted by a recent newsworthy event.
Rowan Atkinson is at the top of the list on Top Gear for celebrities driving around in cr@p cars isn't he.
Perhaps it's all gone to his head and he thjinks he's invincible.
The choice of car is irrelevant but treating shared roads like a personal race track whether you are in a million pound car or a souped up saxo is both arrogant and selfish
Truest statement on the thread so far.
He might have been a tad "over-'car'ed" for that bit of road, but no one on here has ever been "over biked" for that bit of track/towpath have they. 🙂
Good luck to him, and hope he gets it fixed and carries on driving it.
I wish you'd rest your typing fingers. You sir, are the internet version of a gobshite.
And YOU, sir, are a cad and a bounder, and I challenge you to a duel at dawn!
(Please notice my failure to bite at your personal insult, and also my failure to report your post......)
*runs around in a circle giggling like a loon*
Aha yes now I remember, more downsides of owning a flash car are repeatedly being called a ****er by people you don't know, never being let out at junctions, idiots (in passats and audis, why is it always passats and audis?) tailgating you, nightmare parking, always being afraid someone will vandalise it, etc 🙂
He might have been a tad "over-'car'ed" for that bit of road, but no one on here has ever been "over biked" for that bit of track/towpath have they.
Actually, THAT'S now the truest statement on the thread. 🙂
I like the cut of your jib!
He might have been a tad "over-'car'ed" for that bit of road, but no one on here has ever been "over biked" for that bit of track/towpath have they.
True, but the consequences of binning the car on a public road can be rather more severe...
Aha yes now I remember, more downsides of owning a flash car are repeatedly being called a **** by people you don't know, never being let out at junctions, idiots (in passats and audis, why is it always passats and audis?) tailgating you, nightmare parking, always being afraid someone will vandalise it, etc
Try riding a motorbike. Then they try knocking you off as well! 🙂
I now drive an anonymous grey german saloon most of the time, (which is faster than my old fezza and better in every way) and life on the road is much less stressful 🙂
Id rather see celebrities doing 100mph down A roads than the local chav doing 40-50 down 30mph roads. I wonder which one causes more peds and innocent motorists to die.
Would that be the chavs? Would that be because there's more of them?
A mutual acquaintance tells me that he hit a patch of deisel and that's why he crashed.
You have to question the nature of his driving, he crashed it into the back of an Austin Metro a few years ago and now he's finally written it off. Talented driver maybe, safe/legal driver?
Perhaps it's all gone to his head and he thjinks he's invincible.
Well no, he is a long-time car enthusiast and races - has done for years. He knew before doing Top Gear that he could drive fast and knows how to handle a car.
But I don't go around blabbering on about it just becasue I've seen a celery-sucking poodle leaving a mauve dorma bungalow with a gravel drive in a Toyota Prius on his way to play tennis with a French dance DJ!
pretty offensive to call molgrips a poodle!!
[i]If I could afford to I'd drive a Maclaren F1 everywhere![/i]
Really? It looks like a right pain in the arse for my local shopping trip to Tesco, and completely useless for trips to the DIY store.
Though I suspect if I could afford one, I'd get someone else to drive to Tesco. Or maybe not even Tesco with that money.
the appropriateness of something like an F1 for driving on UK roads. It is not as if you can (legally) use all the power
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This arguement must apply to almost every car in Britain.
I can't legally use all the power of my car either. It's only a 1.8 Vectra but can easily exceed the speed limit.
A mutual acquaintance tells me that he hit a patch of deisel and that's why he crashed.
Maybe, but would he have crashed if he wasn't caning it?
Aye, he'd been a 'Gentleman racer' for years. Just goes to show though, even if you're pretty competant and have excellent machinery under you, it can still go horribly wrong.
pretty offensive to call molgrips a poodle!!
I did no such thing! Molgrips is a lovely chap! 🙂
Maybe, but would he have crashed if he wasn't caning it?
Have you ever driven a car like a Maclaren F1? It isn't exactly the same as driving a Ford Focus - they will not very forgiving to mistakes/conditions.
If he's damaged the engine lining he could make a fortune from "We buy any gold"...
The metro prang was 12 years ago. While it's not ideal, one bump every 12 years doesn't seem overly careless/unsafe.
PP - the clue to the dryness was in the deaf bit. I happen to love ballet, so was quite offended by your statement.
But yeah, I don't get supercars at all.
Have you ever driven a car like a Maclaren F1? It isn't exactly the same as driving a Ford Focus - they will not very forgiving to mistakes/conditions.
That sounds like the perfect reason for not driving it on public roads.
Have you ever driven a car like a Maclaren F1? It isn't exactly the same as driving a Ford Focus - they will not very forgiving to mistakes/conditions.
Have you? It's a question: if he wasn't caning it, it's not unreasonable to assume that the margin for error would be such that he wouldn't crash.
nothing like knocking a wing mirror of a bently and making the **** in the drivers seat shit him self at a set of lights in my book!
Have you? It's a question: if he wasn't caning it, it's not unreasonable to assume that the margin for error would be such that he wouldn't crash.
Of course I haven't but I understand enough about cars to know it will be an [b]entirely[/b] different proposition to driving a family hatchback.
That sounds like the perfect reason for not driving it on public roads.
Perhaps.
Why the assumption he was caning it in so many responses? He might have been pootling like the lad on the 5grand full susser as he hit the red section at the local trail centre???
I drove an F1 (not mine) on track and it was unbelievably scary - no traction control, no ABS, the brakes weren't even servoed iirc. I wasn't a good enough driver to get anything out of the experience, it was a great relief to get out of the car actually. I imagine they must be a nightmare to drive on the road (imagine an elise with 5 times the horsepower)
To lose control on that road, Mclaren F1 or not, it's either a shite car (no), he was driving like a moron, or he can't drive (no).
I flatly refuse to believe that a Mclaren F1 just 'goes' like that on a patch of diesel at 70mph on a big almost straight road.
With the Metro incident 12 years ago, correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember it wasn't so much a prang but it actually lifted the Metro off the ground and up onto the bonnet? Not bad going.
He knows better than anyone what he was driving in the current conditions etc.
I flatly refuse to believe that a Mclaren F1 just 'goes' like that on a patch of diesel at 70mph on a big almost straight road.
Something ran out in front of him?
I wrote off a Fiesta XR2 (put it on its roof) on a perfectly straight road after an animal ran out on me and I swerved to avoid it.
Have you ever driven a car like a Maclaren F1? It isn't exactly the same as driving a Ford Focus - they will not very forgiving to mistakes/conditions.
True in a way, but at the [u]same speed[/u] as a Focus, you'll get away with a LOT more.
Drive a Focus at 100% and an F1 at 100% and then it all starts to get a bit hectic becasue the F1 will be going a LOT faster! 🙂
completely useless for trips to the DIY store
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With it's central seating position, I think the greatest danger of an F1 is slipping whilst getting into the drivers seat and becoming overly acquianted with the gear lever.
I flatly refuse to believe that a Mclaren F1 just 'goes' like that on a patch of diesel at 70mph on a big almost straight road
I see what you're saying and accept your POV, but diesel is lethal, even at slow speeds. Hit enough of it at 20mph, and you'll be struggling in any car. That said I've never had a problem in a car myself.
But you do learn this on a motorbike, and you develop 'diesel vision' on corners near garages. I've had it where I've smelled it before I've got to it! A bike only needs a small patch to have you off though, where a car will slide then regain grip when it's clear of the spill.
Something ran out in front of him?
I haven't seen any claims to this effect?
True in a way, but at the same speed as a Focus, you'll get away with a LOT more.
Depends - if you happened to accelerate just as you hit the diesel in a Focus and you might get a bit of wheel spin (or if it was a lower powered variant nothing at all), do the same in an F1 and the instant power could have the car from under you in an instant.
Wasn't it someone here (SbZ???) that innocuously hit some diesel and crashed their car - slid out of a slip road and into oncoming traffic or something?
I haven't seen any claims to this effect?
Neither have I, just saying there may be circumstances we don't know about yet.
At least he can't have been getting 'treatment' from a lovely in the passenger seat and lost concentration...
Where does the prick in his/her ferrari put the wheel chair???
Something ran out in front of him?
If it turns out to be true I'll give him that.
PP: see your point but like you, never had a problem in a car.
Where does the prick in his/her ferrari put the wheel chair???
Could be using a stick? Could have been someone giving a disabled badge holder a lift, badges are transferable like that no?
And to be fair, from the damage on the car, it looks a pretty low speed accident. If you read the 'Sun' article it would have you think he had a 'Hammondesque' dice with the devil at really high speed.
[b][i]Rowan Atkinson cheated death last night after crashing his £650,000 supercar[/i][/b]
FFS - he didn't even knock the signpost over!
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