himself

A testament to German engineering. My buddy had an incident last night. Note that the wheel did actually fall off - you can see the sway bar in the pic. I saw the pieces at his house and the control arm is literally broken in half. He walked away and should be ok (fingers crossed).

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...-my-996-a.html


-td

tooloud10

Pretty remarkable...glad your buddy is OK!

redridge

yeah... get him checked out. Thats one hell of an impact. Glad he's OK!

Macster

deployed. Impact on left front fender and continued on down side of car to driver's door skin. Considerable damage to front chassis hardpoints and front suspension/steering. Car totaled. (No settlement yet, damn insurance company can sure drag its feet when money's involved.)

No injuries. First airbag deployment for me and my passenger. Seat belt pretensioners fired too. (Passenger side airbag destroys leather dash.)

Anyhow, these are very good very safe cars. They bend/fold/crush where they have to in order to protect the occupants.

I am looking very much forward to having a new replacement Cayman S in just a few weeks.

Glad your friend walked away with just some minor injuries.

Sincerely,

Macster.

ivangene

wow.... that is bad,

glad he is OK

russo

A very serious accident and luckily no casualties. Those 911's sure are sturdy little cars.

medtech

Whenever I see a story like this I am always amazed and somewhat awestruck at the quality and engineering of our cars.

The damage is substantial, but not what I would think after reading his description of the incident. Glad he is OK.

Fissionx

Compare this bmw 330 crash test to the chinese car crash test

Watch BMW first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7vPH_EqIws

Now compare it to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SRyG6UR2A

Laughter is appropriate

Edgy01

I think we can all say that we're glad he was in a PORSCHE for this accident!

pissedpuppy

whoa....that's gnarly. super glad the dude is ok. hope the saturn owners gets "slapped on the wrist"

medtech

These days I wouldn't even buy dog food from the Chinese, much less a car.

ivangene

we had a Porsche submarine in Seattle this week
Link

Ray S

Made me think of this

redridge

^^^ wow, the speeding driver was in his 50's.

htny

Those pics make my stomach turn, but hey he walked away and that's all that matters. Make sure he really gets himself thoroughly checked out, 60 mph crashes always have some impact on muscle and bone even if you don't immediately realize it.