Z4 3.0 driven fast on the road.

[brownec]

Its amazing how technology can keep someone on the road. I bet the ECU was on over drive trying to keep everything in check.

I would bet that if the driver was in something fast with no gizmo's eg like a TVR then he would probably be responsible for his passengers death if not his own as well!

[wst]

Sign at 2.40 seems to say "Burnley" and "Padiham" which as far as I can tell makes it here.

Going by Google maps the run starts on the fittingly named "Whalley Road".

[J4CKO]

GC8 said:

J4CKO said:

It came home to me how idiotic this was over the weekend, was dropping my youngest off at the in laws to watch Uniteds impressive bid for relegation,was in my 350Z, roof down, enjoying it, but within sensible (if a little noisy) levels, not really going that fast and fully aware its a nice day and there will be a lot of people about, first shock was an extended family walking up a fairly busy road on a blind bend, no worries, had backed right off and got a wave off the bloke at the front who obviously relaised they were pretty vulnerable, then two bends on there was a cyclist that had crashed at the bottom of a decent hill, someone had stopped to assist and an ambulance was en-route but he was lying in the road, they did not want to move him.

9999 times the way is clear, as you expect, round that blind bend, 1 in 10,000 there is a family ill advisedley trotting round or some poor sod who has come off a bike, we have to drive for the 1, not the 9999.

Roof down? Suddenly it all becomes clear...

Yes, without a roof it is very clear !

Your point being ? my 944 was a cab as well by the way.

[mdavids]

Reminds me of this sad little bell end:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boy-racer-mar...

This happened a couple of miles from me on a road I know well and a friend of mine is a sergeant who dealt with the aftermath. Apparently he had videos of himself on his youtube account driving like a complete tt which the police were very interested in and helped in making it impossible for him to plead anything other than guilty. I just hope his paltry 8 year sentence includes regular sessions with big bubba.

Just how inadequate do you have to be to think this type of driving actually impresses anyone, least of all young women?

[Dr Jekyll]

Perhaps there should be some kind of IQ test in the driving theory test.

[monthefish]

mdavids said:

Just how inadequate do you have to be to think this type of driving actually impresses anyone, least of all young women?

I wouldn't have said 'inadequate', I think its more a case of 'young and naive'.

[WCZ]

mdavids said:

Reminds me of this sad little bell end:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boy-racer-mar...

This happened a couple of miles from me on a road I know well and a friend of mine is a sergeant who dealt with the aftermath. Apparently he had videos of himself on his youtube account driving like a complete tt which the police were very interested in and helped in making it impossible for him to plead anything other than guilty. I just hope his paltry 8 year sentence includes regular sessions with big bubba.

I remember seeing those (now deleted) videos of him and IMO they weren't as dangerous as this.

[DoubleSix]

Troubleatmill said:

If I were the father of the girl in the passenger seat.
I'd be quietly sorting out some long lasting misfortune for the driver.

I'd wager 9 out of 10 fathers would be thinking the same.

I was reading through the thread thinking the same thing...

He would definitely be getting a visit.

[MitchT]

Dr Jekyll said:

Perhaps there should be some kind of IQ test in the driving theory test.

I once suggested that the driving test should contain the same kind of psychometric testing that prospective train drivers have to undergo. It'll never happen though 'cause the government makes too much money in motoring related taxes to really want less of us to be driving.

[caraddict]

I could only think of the poor girl. The position of those legs suggest that she's in "defense" and extremely uncomfortable.

[mackie1]

This is a more sensible way to drive a Z4 in the wet and on video ;P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DTcfEKd-PE

It ended up putting the foam back in but it did sounds pretty good.

[Wills2]

wst said:

Sign at 2.40 seems to say "Burnley" and "Padiham" which as far as I can tell makes it here.

Going by Google maps the run starts on the fittingly named "Whalley Road".

I know that road very well, fork off to the left at the junction and there is a lovely bit I named the carousel.

[roadend1981]

Wills2 said:

I know that road very well, fork off to the left at the junction and there is a lovely bit I named the carousel.

It is actually named devils elbow.it is a blackspot for accidents,many fatal deaths over the years on that bend,and along that road to read,before you get to padiham.

[Wills2]

roadend1981 said:

Wills2 said:

I know that road very well, fork off to the left at the junction and there is a lovely bit I named the carousel.

It is actually named devils elbow.it is a blackspot for accidents,many fatal deaths over the years on that bend,and along that road to read,before you get to padiham.

It's lovely if you drive sensibly but I can imagine if you go too fast it will be trouble, I'm a commuter from the bright lights of Yorkshire hence my own moniker for it.

My commute is the A59 to Clitheroe from Skipton then down to the junction and on to Padiham/Altham area, a great drive but plenty of places that can catch out the overly press on driver.

[okgo]

All it would take is for a horse/cyclist or similar to be round one of those corners and it's all over for him and them.