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Jimmy540i.com

07-19-2005, 05:52 PM

hope it's not a repost. man this thingy cost $200,000 USD in Taiwan :cry:

BEFORE:
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m500.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m501.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m502.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m503.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m504.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m505.jpg">

Jimmy540i.com

07-19-2005, 05:59 PM

AFTER:

AFTER:
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m506.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m507.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m508.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m509.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m510.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m511.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m512.jpg"> 
<img src=" http://myweb.hinet.net/home4/s2000/m513.jpg">

Jimmy540i.com

07-19-2005, 06:00 PM

07-19-2005, 06:21 PM

:yikes: :tsk:

07-19-2005, 06:24 PM

What was the elapsed time from delivery to destroyed? Less than 24 hours?

TeamM3

07-19-2005, 06:26 PM

umm, I don't think that will buff out :eek:

BMWenthusiast

07-19-2005, 06:36 PM

wow, that sucks

cwsqbm

07-19-2005, 07:32 PM

More money than skill or brains.

doeboy

07-19-2005, 10:14 PM

Don't tell me the typhoon did that.... :cry:

EuroRocket

07-19-2005, 10:42 PM

haha u should post one of the pics at ur bmw nightmare page!

Alex Baumann

07-19-2005, 10:46 PM

Sometimes too much horsepower can be dangerous for your health.

SergioK

07-19-2005, 10:48 PM

It'll make a lovely paperweight! :p

BlackChrome

07-19-2005, 11:38 PM

Dibs on the emblems! ;)

Tim Kay

07-20-2005, 08:29 AM

Wonder how the passengers fared :(

Ågent99

07-20-2005, 01:14 PM

Damn, literally wrapped it around that tree it looks like...hope the tree is okay.... ;)

SupraRZ

07-20-2005, 05:27 PM

sucks to be him, lol.

btw those are japanese plates heh

SONET

07-20-2005, 05:32 PM

btw those are japanese plates heh
The wheel is on the wrong side of the car for Japan. :dunno:

--SONET

doeboy

07-20-2005, 06:05 PM

btw those are japanese plates heh

No they're not.

jetstream23

07-20-2005, 06:37 PM

Looks like 5035 miles on the Ody in the "Before" set of pictures ??? So, although still new it doesn't look like a record amount of time from delivery to destruction. Gosh, that is....errr.....was a great looking car. The cross-drilled brakes staring back at me from being buried in the sand :cry: Its a cryin' shame!

SONET

07-20-2005, 06:40 PM

Maximus57

07-20-2005, 07:24 PM

Son Of A @$%***

tpo

07-21-2005, 02:27 AM

..shoulda waited till the next light before attempting a u-turn.

DaveH

07-21-2005, 07:26 AM

Considering the car flipped and rolled on both sides (notice the vertically scarred paint over the body flairs on both sides), the driver door still appears to be in good shape dimensionally. Notice also that the door paint is still OK and the roof paint is still intact as well. The door may have been pried open since the roof shows it buckled slightlly (v shape). I am very impressed with the structural integrity of the car. It appears that during the "turtle maneuver" by the driver, the car did not hit anything blunt like a tree until it came to rest on the curb, otherwise the passengers may not have been so lucky.

It just goes to show you that Darwinism can't get you all the time, however I think this driver will find himself in a similar position soon enough. Hopefully the driver doesn't take other people down with him. :thumbdwn:

EuroRocket

07-21-2005, 07:43 PM

sucks to be him, lol.

btw those are japanese plates heh

haha looks like somebody cant tell the difference between plates.

RSPDiver

07-21-2005, 08:40 PM

Damn, looks like he curbed his left rear rim. That's gonna cost a few to fix!

doeboy

07-21-2005, 09:33 PM

Damn, looks like he curbed his left rear rim. That's gonna cost a few to fix!

hehe... he curbed a lot more than that.... :eek:

mojosaan

07-22-2005, 08:28 AM

Read this a few days ago. Three guys are fine. Two with minor scratches and one with a little more. I read reports that the thing rolled over a few times before it hit the curb and landed the right side up. Also, the plates says "Test" in traditional chinese, not the mainland simplified chinese. By the way, the guy who said it is in japanese technically isn't wrong. The japanese language has Han Chinese origins. That is why japanese and chinese can communicate with their written language and not the spoken language. Finally, it is reported that they were doing an M5 and E55 AMG comparo for a car mag and the owner of the E55 AMG got a little too spirited with the M5.

Riuster

07-22-2005, 08:45 AM

how do you know its the same car?

doeboy

07-22-2005, 09:31 AM

Also, the plates says "Test" in traditional chinese, not the mainland simplified chinese. By the way, the guy who said it is in japanese technically isn't wrong. The japanese language has Han Chinese origins. That is why japanese and chinese can communicate with their written language and not the spoken language.

What does language and the use of Han characters have anything to do with this?

I believe he meant those are Japan issue license plates. Which is not true.