Yank journalist crashes new Cadillac on road test

[excel monkey]

Oops. This happened on a GM-organised test route, heading towards a local race track for high speed testing.

The Motor Trend writer estimates he was only doing 15mph at the point where he left the road. Hmm.

http://jalopnik.com/5921693/journalist-flips-cadil...

Has anything like this happened in British motor journalism recently? I don't recall anything, but maybe I don't read enough magazines these days...

[mrmr96]

Wasn't there a guy from Evo mag who binned a Ferrari FF recently?

[FourWheelDrift]

"Clyde, trash the Caddy"

[Alfa numeric]

mrmr96 said:

Wasn't there a guy from Evo mag who binned a Ferrari FF recently?

Jethro Bovingdon lunched a wheel when he hit a curb in one- he's an EVO man but was writing for Car at the time.

link

I seem to remember the Hilton Holloway parked a pre-production Vanquish in a ditch on the launch event too.

[mrmr96]

Yeah, that's teh one. Maybe "binned" is a bit too strong, if it was just a wheel.

[Monty Zoomer]

The article on the Car page says that he "drove it into a kerb, stoving in both alloys on one side of the car." but thay "just managed to squeeze one photo out of a rightly reluctant Jethro."

[y2blade]

Slow news day?
this happens all the time.

[fatboy69]

Monty Zoomer said:

The article on the Car page says that he "drove it into a kerb, stoving in both alloys on one side of the car." but thay "just managed to squeeze one photo out of a rightly reluctant Jethro."

There is in car footage of Jethro wrecking the wheels on the FF. It is on YouTube - I can't be arsed to find the link as its too late & I've only just in from work!

It's worth watching.

[bennyboydurham]

I recall reading 'Car' magazine as a young 'un and there was a feature about how a young female journalist from Japan had spectacularly binned a new (at the time) Merc SL at the launch drive which I guess would be around 1989. The Merc was famous for its revolutionary 'pop up' roll bar and after a bit of pondering on it Merc actually allowed the assembled press to inspect the wrecked motor to see how well it had fared as despite rolling it several times, both occupants had walked away. According to 'Car', the faint outline of the grateful journalist's lipstick marks were still visible on the bootlid....

[Laurel Green]

American + bend = sudden impact.