Anyone ever crashed into an expensive car?
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Just popped into my head icy foggy road friend going to fast for the conditions in a little k11 micra . Traffic jam appears form the fog car in front aston martin vantage. Friend slams on brakes but doesn't pump pedal (no abs). Luckily the guy saw and as we hit the back he accelerated so we pushed it forwards just a few scratches. Guy was sound was a footballer for Derby County at the time.
Cool story bro and all that
Cool story bro and all that
My brother was at the head of a mutli-car crash while waiting at a roundabout back in the mid-2000s, with only minimal damage to the back bumper of his car. However, one of the cars in the middle was a new Maserati 4200 GT, and had been fairly concertinaed
Turned out that it wasn’t the driver’s car though, as he only had it on temporary loan while his Ferrari 575 was being serviced
Turned out that it wasn’t the driver’s car though, as he only had it on temporary loan while his Ferrari 575 was being serviced
Yes, it's possible to cause damage uncorrelated with the value of your own car in an accident.
An Aston isn't the worst-case, if you seriously injure someone your insurance co could be paying out a huge amt of compensation.
Covering such rare but huge payouts is exactly what insurance companies are for, which is why insurance is compulsory.
Not me, but a mate used to work for a well known Ferrari and Porsche dealership just south of Manchester and he managed to crash one customer’s Ferrari into another customer’s Ferrari…
He ended up finding another job after getting caught speeding when returning a customer’s car. The customer got the NIP in the post..
He ended up finding another job after getting caught speeding when returning a customer’s car. The customer got the NIP in the post..
I was on holiday with my dad in his poo brown mk3 cortina around 1982 in Cornwall, He was bombing it down the lanes which were single carriage with passing places showing off to his driving. He came around a corner and there was a Ferrari 308 coming the other way, he managed to slam on his brakes and move over enough to avoid a head-on. I will always remember the sound as he scraped down the side of the Ferrari with his s
t heap 
t heap Driving down tha A140 towards Norwich a few years ago pulled up at a roadworks stop sign behind a brand new Mercedes AMG C63 Coupe in my humble Vectra Sri..
Moments later was hit from behind quite hard by a VW Golf who had apparently not seen the queue !!!
My car was then pushed into the back of the Mercedes, quite a sandwich !!
The poor guy had literally only just driven it out of the dealership too..
Long story short, nobody hurt and Golf chap admitted fault..
Mercedes although quite badly damaged got repaired, mine borderline but fixed..Golf written off..
Moments later was hit from behind quite hard by a VW Golf who had apparently not seen the queue !!!
My car was then pushed into the back of the Mercedes, quite a sandwich !!
The poor guy had literally only just driven it out of the dealership too..
Long story short, nobody hurt and Golf chap admitted fault..
Mercedes although quite badly damaged got repaired, mine borderline but fixed..Golf written off..
Milkyway said:
McClaren F1, new door... was about 9K.
Hate to think what Bugatti etc are charging these days.
I was in Chartwells at Derby a few years ago getting a quote for some stone chips on my 911,Hate to think what Bugatti etc are charging these days.
the chap dealing with my quote kindly offered to give me the guided tour and took me through the various workshops which contained many, very expensive cars, all with different levels of damage and in different states of repair,
in one of the workshops was a car that was hidden by a cover, I couldn't tell what the car was, but the silhouette looked very much like a super/hyper car,
I was informed that it was incredibly rare and the repair was being kept secret hence the cover,
I was told the damage was fairly minor and limited to one side, but it required a new door to be specially made and they expected the repair bill to top £90K
timberman said:
I was in Chartwells at Derby a few years ago getting a quote for some stone chips on my 911,
the chap dealing with my quote kindly offered to give me the guided tour and took me through the various workshops which contained many, very expensive cars, all with different levels of damage and in different states of repair,
in one of the workshops was a car that was hidden by a cover, I couldn't tell what the car was, but the silhouette looked very much like a super/hyper car,
I was informed that it was incredibly rare and the repair was being kept secret hence the cover,
I was told the damage was fairly minor and limited to one side, but it required a new door to be specially made and they expected the repair bill to top £90K
Not implausible. I used to regularly fly on light airplanes and was talking to a pilot who told me of an incident that grounded one of the planes as a door got accidentally damaged. Despite being a plane that's been in continuous production for 40 years and relatively mass produced (over 2500 built), every panel is unique to each plane so a new door had to be built specially for it, so the cost wasn't far off the above. Ouch.the chap dealing with my quote kindly offered to give me the guided tour and took me through the various workshops which contained many, very expensive cars, all with different levels of damage and in different states of repair,
in one of the workshops was a car that was hidden by a cover, I couldn't tell what the car was, but the silhouette looked very much like a super/hyper car,
I was informed that it was incredibly rare and the repair was being kept secret hence the cover,
I was told the damage was fairly minor and limited to one side, but it required a new door to be specially made and they expected the repair bill to top £90K
After a very long day, I was taking my Jag XJR out of a space to put a Gallardo in the same space. Pulled the Jag out, put it in what I thought was park but ended up being reverse, and watched as it rolled straight into the back of the Gallardo. Luckily there was only a tiny bit of paint transfer which I wiped off with a cloth and some polish, but I definitely st myself.
t myself.Not yet thankfully!
I did have the opposite experience though in 1976. My first car, a 1967 MK2 Cortina conked out going round the one-way system in Kingston and I managed to get someone to help push it to the side of the road while I waited for one of our neighbours to come and tow it home.
Someone in a Bentley Corniche convertible pulled out of a service road between some shops and turned a bit too sharp catching my bumper and breaking my rear indicator lens. He put down his electric window and asked me what I reckoned it would cost to fix it.
Gave me a nice crisp £20 note and I got a lens for £3 off a car in a wobbly stack in Sunbury Salvage, so I wasted another fiver on some GT badges like you did in your teens.
I've often wondered what the 2 foot crease on the side of the Corniche cost to fix.
I did have the opposite experience though in 1976. My first car, a 1967 MK2 Cortina conked out going round the one-way system in Kingston and I managed to get someone to help push it to the side of the road while I waited for one of our neighbours to come and tow it home.
Someone in a Bentley Corniche convertible pulled out of a service road between some shops and turned a bit too sharp catching my bumper and breaking my rear indicator lens. He put down his electric window and asked me what I reckoned it would cost to fix it.
Gave me a nice crisp £20 note and I got a lens for £3 off a car in a wobbly stack in Sunbury Salvage, so I wasted another fiver on some GT badges like you did in your teens.
I've often wondered what the 2 foot crease on the side of the Corniche cost to fix.
Yes a brand new F Type Coupe that had just left the warehouse to be delivered to its first owner.
The delivery driver pulled out of the side road onto a NSL road right in front of me doing 60 in a car I had only had for a few weeks.
Both cars were write offs.
Luckily no major injuries. Just a huge amount of bruising and shock
The delivery driver pulled out of the side road onto a NSL road right in front of me doing 60 in a car I had only had for a few weeks.
Both cars were write offs.
Luckily no major injuries. Just a huge amount of bruising and shock
Not me, but as a kid I was at my great aunts house, somewhere posh near Bournemouth, I had gone for little wander round the area, very leafy and quiet.
Came to the end of her road, there was someone in a small car, think it was an Allegro and coming down the main road was a two truck with a very impressive old car, looked like a Silver Ghost or Bentley, pre war, maybe 1920s from memory (was prob 1980 when I was 9)
Anyway, the Allegro lunges out and the tow truck driver manages to brake hard and avoid hitting the Allegro with a big plume of tyre smoke and screeching, but sadly the old car on the back didnt, it contacted the back off the tow truck very hard.
The Allegro stopped, the Tow truck driver got out and from a car behind the now mangled vintage car emerges a very posh and very very upset older gent who I assume must have been the cars owner, he set about remonstrating with the Allegro driver, the Tow truck driver. He left me alone just shot me a dirty look.
Can remember the massive headlight bowls, now pointing at odd angles and bent front wings, not terminal but would require significant work, was also fluid all over the place so must have pierced the radiator.
Would love to know who it was and where that car is now, nowadays a 9 year old would have a nice photo on their smartphone I expect, I didnt have my crayons to knock up a quick artists impression so its lost to sketchy memories.
Came to the end of her road, there was someone in a small car, think it was an Allegro and coming down the main road was a two truck with a very impressive old car, looked like a Silver Ghost or Bentley, pre war, maybe 1920s from memory (was prob 1980 when I was 9)
Anyway, the Allegro lunges out and the tow truck driver manages to brake hard and avoid hitting the Allegro with a big plume of tyre smoke and screeching, but sadly the old car on the back didnt, it contacted the back off the tow truck very hard.
The Allegro stopped, the Tow truck driver got out and from a car behind the now mangled vintage car emerges a very posh and very very upset older gent who I assume must have been the cars owner, he set about remonstrating with the Allegro driver, the Tow truck driver. He left me alone just shot me a dirty look.
Can remember the massive headlight bowls, now pointing at odd angles and bent front wings, not terminal but would require significant work, was also fluid all over the place so must have pierced the radiator.
Would love to know who it was and where that car is now, nowadays a 9 year old would have a nice photo on their smartphone I expect, I didnt have my crayons to knock up a quick artists impression so its lost to sketchy memories.
Sat at the lights, in my 911, with my mate, in Tokyo. There's a slight jolt and we look at each other with the automatic assumption that there's an earthquake kicking off. But then he says 'I think the guy behind just hit you' and sure enough there's a Corolla shaped object in my mirror that couldn't be any closer than it appears.
We get out. Now I get out by opening the door, climbing out, and standing up. I am 6 ft, average build, which in Japan usually makes me the largest mobile mass in any social setting. My mate though is a fully corn fed American from the prairie bits. He played one of those ridiculous American football positions like outside-running-carcrusher. He is about 8ft wide, and doesn't really climb out of a car but unfurls like a youtube unboxing video in 3D.
We look at the Corolla. It's a 20-ish chap driving, and his missus. The dismay inked onto their faces has gone from level 1 at the social shame of damaging someone else's property, through 2 at realising it's a fancy and probably expensive car, into 3 at seeing it's driven by a foreigner with all the extra aggro that's likely to entail, and now skipping 4 and going direct to level 5 at seeing the man mountain and his chauffeur starting to amble towards them.
They get out. He has gone slightly pale and is starting to reach for his wallet. His missus is very concerned for our health and wants to make sure my enormous chum hasn't suffered any debilitating whiplash from the 3mph shunt. We inspect the damage. There are a couple of light scratches on the bumper, which looks to have deformed and snapped back. I explain, in my less than fabulous Japanese, that there's no issue, it's all just another light wound from city driving, you have a nice day now.
This is very un-Japanese, where you would expect at least a token payment to be required and possibly full recompense. They can't quite believe it, not helped by my language skills probably making it sound more like 'I'm going to give you a wound, you city driver'. It fully sinks in when we make obvious 'we're going to get back in and drive away now' signs. There is bowing. There is so much bowing. We depart, safe in the knowledge that our behaviour will be actually marked against us as just another way foreigners don't understand how things are supposed to work.
The porsche dealer chipped me for $500 at trade in because of some light scratches on the rear bumper that needed fixing.
We get out. Now I get out by opening the door, climbing out, and standing up. I am 6 ft, average build, which in Japan usually makes me the largest mobile mass in any social setting. My mate though is a fully corn fed American from the prairie bits. He played one of those ridiculous American football positions like outside-running-carcrusher. He is about 8ft wide, and doesn't really climb out of a car but unfurls like a youtube unboxing video in 3D.
We look at the Corolla. It's a 20-ish chap driving, and his missus. The dismay inked onto their faces has gone from level 1 at the social shame of damaging someone else's property, through 2 at realising it's a fancy and probably expensive car, into 3 at seeing it's driven by a foreigner with all the extra aggro that's likely to entail, and now skipping 4 and going direct to level 5 at seeing the man mountain and his chauffeur starting to amble towards them.
They get out. He has gone slightly pale and is starting to reach for his wallet. His missus is very concerned for our health and wants to make sure my enormous chum hasn't suffered any debilitating whiplash from the 3mph shunt. We inspect the damage. There are a couple of light scratches on the bumper, which looks to have deformed and snapped back. I explain, in my less than fabulous Japanese, that there's no issue, it's all just another light wound from city driving, you have a nice day now.
This is very un-Japanese, where you would expect at least a token payment to be required and possibly full recompense. They can't quite believe it, not helped by my language skills probably making it sound more like 'I'm going to give you a wound, you city driver'. It fully sinks in when we make obvious 'we're going to get back in and drive away now' signs. There is bowing. There is so much bowing. We depart, safe in the knowledge that our behaviour will be actually marked against us as just another way foreigners don't understand how things are supposed to work.
The porsche dealer chipped me for $500 at trade in because of some light scratches on the rear bumper that needed fixing.
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