Car split in two in crash

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carl_w

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9,154 posts

257 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Only scratches for the occupants, but since this looks like an Impreza with an after-market exhaust I'm surprised the BBC are using "family saloon" instead of "high powered sports car" which is their usual rhetoric.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warw...

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Not sure that would be BBC rhetoric, more DM style.

Still, the car split apart nicely, I assume there was a lateral impact, if so then they are extremely lucky that it impacted in front of the bulkhead.

stripy7

806 posts

186 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Cut and Shut?

backwoodsman

2,463 posts

128 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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stripy7 said:
Cut and Shut?
Given the type of car, and the way it split, it wouldn't surprise me if it were.

jonah35

3,940 posts

156 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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The doors are different colours. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a cut and shut.

Must have been going quite quick with kids in the car to cut it in two!

Martin4x4

6,506 posts

131 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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What is it? It looks a little like a Toyota Camry to me.

The monocoque is intact, the detached engine compartment looks like an oddly very clean break which would dissipate energy from the crash.

skyrover

12,668 posts

203 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Definitely Japanese...

Honda door handles?


greygoose

8,225 posts

194 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Isn't it an Impreza?

JamesNotJim

755 posts

185 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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greygoose said:
Isn't it an Impreza?
Thats what I'd call it. The exhaust is big too, 3" system by the looks.

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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greygoose said:
Isn't it an Impreza?
Looks like a classic scoob to me too.

rxtx

6,016 posts

209 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Looks like a facelift classic UK Turbo.

mattcov

721 posts

225 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Wondered why the road was closed yesterday. Not quite sure how people manage to ditch cars down that stretch - its fairly regular occurrence.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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That diff+intercooler+straight exhaust system.
I'm not saying it's an Impreza, but it's an Impreza.

Fort Jefferson

8,237 posts

221 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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carl_w said:
Only scratches for the occupants, but since this looks like an Impreza with an after-market exhaust I'm surprised the BBC are using "family saloon" instead of "high powered sports car" which is their usual rhetoric.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warw...
Nowhere in the article does it refer to the car as a "family Saloon"

carl_w

Original Poster:

9,154 posts

257 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Fort Jefferson said:
Nowhere in the article does it refer to the car as a "family Saloon"
Yes OK but it does say it is a saloon belonging to a family...

Dracoro

8,662 posts

244 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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What has happened to PH, used to be full of petrolhheads, it is clearly an Impreza.

AB

16,969 posts

194 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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Dracoro said:
What has happened to PH, used to be full of petrolhheads, it is clearly an Impreza.
My immediate thought too... How can anyone not know that's an Impreza?!

The colour gives it away as well.

eharding

13,602 posts

283 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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anonymous said:
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"Nothing sticks to the road in the wet better than an Impreza."

Sadly, in this case it looks like the front end was substantially better at sticking to the road than the back end.

DrDeAtH

3,586 posts

231 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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anonymous said:
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Just for clarity(and in reference to an earlier thread). Its definitely not the REAR DIFF is it?

cptsideways

13,535 posts

251 months

Sunday 23rd November 2014
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That is MOST definitely a cut & shut


The bulkhead/front crash structure is about the strongest part of a car & to have both legs of the chassis removed & the front half of the bulkhead peeled away & the rest of it largely intact & undamaged I would say without a shadow of doubt one half of that car belongs to another car.


Cutting & shutting there leaves the bulkhead ID in place