McLaren smashed, Sainsburys SevenOaks

McLaren smashed, Sainsburys SevenOaks

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MikeM6

5,514 posts

117 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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RBT0 said:
Kent Border Kenny said:
RBT0 said:
Anyway, seriously, it's really dangerous to drive a car like a McLaren in urban environment where majority of cars have higher stance or are SUV.

Worst of the worst, thinking of safely use it to go shopping. Sorry but that is the mental madness.
Are you drunk?

Of course it’s not dangerous. People walk, cycle, and run in urban environments. Driving a sports car really isn’t near the most dangerous activity that people do, and this one has an intact passenger cell.
Not drunk, but I can re phrase: I wouldn’t recommend to anyone the use of a supercar in an urban environment, unless you want to take the risk to have your car destroyed like the aboove.
I think any car would be written off if a Q5 hit them at enough speed as happened here.

HTP99

24,024 posts

155 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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RBT0 said:
Kent Border Kenny said:
RBT0 said:
Anyway, seriously, it's really dangerous to drive a car like a McLaren in urban environment where majority of cars have higher stance or are SUV.

Worst of the worst, thinking of safely use it to go shopping. Sorry but that is the mental madness.
Are you drunk?

Of course it’s not dangerous. People walk, cycle, and run in urban environments. Driving a sports car really isn’t near the most dangerous activity that people do, and this one has an intact passenger cell.
Not drunk, but I can re phrase: I wouldn’t recommend to anyone the use of a supercar in an urban environment, unless you want to take the risk to have your car destroyed like the aboove.
What an odd thing to say, it's hardly a common occurrence this type of incident is it and if it wasn't a a McLaren there then something else would have been likely tottalled too!

davek_964

10,143 posts

190 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Some tt in an Audi selects Drive rather than reverse, trashes a nearly new McLaren and a couple of posters think it's the McLaren owners fault for being stupid enough to drive a car like that in an urban environment, and for parking where the other cars do?

At the risk of being blunt - there are some absolute fkwits on this forum sometimes.

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

166 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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davek_964 said:
Some tt in an Audi selects Drive rather than reverse, trashes a nearly new McLaren and a couple of posters think it's the McLaren owners fault for being stupid enough to drive a car like that in an urban environment, and for parking where the other cars do?

At the risk of being blunt - there are some absolute fkwits on this forum sometimes.
roflrofl

Court_S

14,302 posts

192 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Teddy Lop said:
TFSI

Total fking simpleton inside.
rofl I’ll always think of this when I see a TFSI badge now.

That was a good effort by the Audi driver. Scary that we have to share the roads with these people.

hyphen

Original Poster:

26,262 posts

105 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Kent Border Kenny said:
RBT0 said:
Not drunk, but I can re phrase: I wouldn’t recommend to anyone the use of a supercar in an urban environment, unless you want to take the risk to have your car destroyed like the aboove.
I’ve driven them for years in London, and never had an issue, not a near miss. I don’t really see it as a problem.
Yup. Its a very unlikely event!

RBT0, you are talking crazy.

Smiljan

11,614 posts

212 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Teddy Lop said:
TFSI

Total fking simpleton inside.
That's a beauty rofl

caiss4

1,942 posts

212 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Smiljan said:
Teddy Lop said:
TFSI

Total fking simpleton inside.
That's a beauty rofl
I'm just nipping out to de-badge my Q5 biglaugh

Ferruccio

1,855 posts

134 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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RBT0 said:
Anyway, seriously, it's really dangerous to drive a car like a McLaren in urban environment where majority of cars have higher stance or are SUV.

Worst of the worst, thinking of safely use it to go shopping. Sorry but that is the mental madness.
Best stay in and never go out?

Matty3

1,238 posts

99 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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They drive amongst us.

RBT0

1,546 posts

134 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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It's just a matter of being in a car that is less visible to SUV and majority of other cars when you're close to it, like in a urban environment.

So it happens that if someone just press hard on the accelerator, they climb over the roof rather than stopping at the bumper, because the 2 cars are so different in size/shape.

Yes I am too negative here but maybe it's because I've started my career as Crash test engineer...

I am simply saying there's higher risk and I wouldn't recommend using these cars for shopping around town.

London is the perfect example of the opposite. But possibly population there is also used to them and there are more on the road.

Edited by RBT0 on Tuesday 20th October 13:50

hyphen

Original Poster:

26,262 posts

105 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Matty3 said:
They drive amongst us.
biggrin

Ferruccio

1,855 posts

134 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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RBT0 said:
It's just a matter of being in a car that is less visible to SUV and majority of other cars when you're close to it, like in a urban environment.

So it happens that if someone just press hard on the accelerator, they climb over the roof rather than stopping at the bumper, because the 2 cars are so different in size/shape.

Yes I am too negative here but maybe it's because I've started my career as Crash test engineer...

I am simply saying there's higher risk and I wouldn't recommend using these cars for shopping around town.

London is the perfect example of the opposite. But possibly population there is also used to them and there are more on the road.

Edited by RBT0 on Tuesday 20th October 13:50
Is my yellow Aventador more or less visible than my dark silver Mini?



thatdude

2,660 posts

142 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Leftfootwonder said:
You, Sir, have far too much time on your hands laugh
I just googled "list of genders" and that popped up

20 seconds of my life.

(My main issue was someone was clearly suggesting it must have been a woman driver, it absolutely must have been, but there was no reporting on the details of the driver, but because a really silly incident occured then oh my god it must have been a woman, what WAS she doing out of the kitchen / out of the bedroom / unleashed in a car and who the hell gave her a driving lisence anyway?. Men drive like dheads too and have also been known to get confuzzled with the controls of a car. There are some right old fuddy duddys on here with really old fashioned / antiquated views on the world)

bolidemichael

16,499 posts

216 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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thatdude said:
Leftfootwonder said:
You, Sir, have far too much time on your hands laugh
I just googled "list of genders" and that popped up

20 seconds of my life.

(My main issue was someone was clearly suggesting it must have been a woman driver, it absolutely must have been, but there was no reporting on the details of the driver, but because a really silly incident occured then oh my god it must have been a woman, what WAS she doing out of the kitchen / out of the bedroom / unleashed in a car and who the hell gave her a driving lisence anyway?. Men drive like dheads too and have also been known to get confuzzled with the controls of a car. There are some right old fuddy duddys on here with really old fashioned / antiquated views on the world)
You, Sir, have far too much time on your hands laugh

footsoldier

2,281 posts

207 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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So no truth in the rumour that same guy owned both, and had gap insurance...?

RBT0

1,546 posts

134 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Ferruccio said:
RBT0 said:
It's just a matter of being in a car that is less visible to SUV and majority of other cars when you're close to it, like in a urban environment.

So it happens that if someone just press hard on the accelerator, they climb over the roof rather than stopping at the bumper, because the 2 cars are so different in size/shape.

Yes I am too negative here but maybe it's because I've started my career as Crash test engineer...

I am simply saying there's higher risk and I wouldn't recommend using these cars for shopping around town.

London is the perfect example of the opposite. But possibly population there is also used to them and there are more on the road.

Edited by RBT0 on Tuesday 20th October 13:50
Is my yellow Aventador more or less visible than my dark silver Mini?
It depends, if I sit in a Range Rover and you're next to me I may not see you.

On the motorway with plenty of distance it's the opposite.

davek_964

10,143 posts

190 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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RBT0 said:
It depends, if I sit in a Range Rover and you're next to me I may not see you.

On the motorway with plenty of distance it's the opposite.
Then you're really not paying attention. They may be low compared to normal cars, but they are still high enough that they should be perfectly visible - even next to an SUV. The top of a McLaren roof - which is after all the type of car damaged here - is higher than the bottom of the window in a typical SUV.

R8Reece

1,561 posts

104 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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thatdude said:
I just googled "list of genders" and that popped up

20 seconds of my life.

(My main issue was someone was clearly suggesting it must have been a woman driver, it absolutely must have been, but there was no reporting on the details of the driver, but because a really silly incident occured then oh my god it must have been a woman, what WAS she doing out of the kitchen / out of the bedroom / unleashed in a car and who the hell gave her a driving lisence anyway?. Men drive like dheads too and have also been known to get confuzzled with the controls of a car. There are some right old fuddy duddys on here with really old fashioned / antiquated views on the world)
Couldn't agree more.

rev-erend

21,583 posts

299 months

Tuesday 20th October 2020
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Teddy Lop said:
TFSI

Total fking simpleton inside.
Classic.