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02-02-2014, 12:31 AM
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A test driver has written off a prototype of BMW's upcoming i8 hybrid supercar after skidding off a greasy trunk road near the Bavarian town of Freising.
"He was going a little bit too fast," police spokesman Nikolaus Bischof told Germany's Autobild gazette. The 30-year-old pilot was not breaking the limit, but the speed at which he was travelling was "not appropriate considering the wet road conditions." The test driver lost control of the exclusive petrol-electric sports car which crashed into a metal barrier and spun around to face traffic on the wrong side of the road. The man escaped injury and was able to clamber out of one of the car's distinctive up-and-over gull-wing doors. BMW spokesman Wieland Buech declined to put a figure on the value of the written-off car. The much-vaunted i8 is being launched as a rival to high-end Porsche and Ferrari models. The high-performance car goes on sale with prices starting at 126,000 euros ($A195,865.07). The testbed vehicle was worth more, owing to sophisticated measuring equipment on board. http://www.couriermail.com.au/techno...-1226815806185
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02-02-2014, 02:41 AM
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02-02-2014, 07:33 AM
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Oops!
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02-02-2014, 08:38 AM
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Bmw to test driver - you crash it, YOU fix it!
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02-02-2014, 09:08 AM
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BMW to test driver, "YOU VILL NOT CRASH ZE CAR, DUMKOPF!"
And shame on you, nice car, like the interior shot.
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02-02-2014, 10:37 AM
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I bet he was texting to his mates. "Guess what I'm driv.........
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02-02-2014, 01:45 PM
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He is a test driver,He was crash testing it and came out safe and well,All Good.
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02-02-2014, 02:06 PM
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02-02-2014, 04:26 PM
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Different attitudes to speed...
Here; he'd be described as a mad dangerous hoon demon murderer for going over the limit, in Germany the police merely say in a casual way that he may have been going "a little too fast"...
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02-02-2014, 05:26 PM
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360hp and 215mm low rolling resistance tyres smart one bmw.
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02-02-2014, 08:45 PM
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Gee I hope we can get away from this overused "i" nomenclature we seem to use for everything.
I reckon that crash could be karma saying to BMW "go back to ze drawing board, zat car looks sheet" (karma is apparently German too)
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02-02-2014, 10:09 PM
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I disagree with the look of the i8, I think it looks fantastic. Can't wait to see them on the roads. BTW Karma is Sanskrit not German.
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02-02-2014, 09:07 PM
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Driver should have claimed it was done for real life crash testing purposes, to prove it's crashworthiness outside of controlled lab crash tests.
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03-02-2014, 05:22 PM
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Glad the driver's okay, but as for the beautiful i8, being a prototype it was destined for a crusher sometime in the future anyway...
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