RFChris Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 ....one of the more sobering threads to find its way onto the internet. http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/showth ... p?t=111454 Chris
Trevmk3 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 am i right in thinking that it was the day after he posted? too much money at a young age
Trevmk3 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 18 with an m5....rich tossers!!! did you read to the end of the thread mate? if not do so, and open the links
Messenjah Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 actually sent a shive rdown my spine
Copey Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 18 with an m5....rich tossers!!! did you read to the end of the thread mate? if not do so, and open the links ooohhhh....thats bad!!
over_head_cam Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 I sort of guessed where the story was going. Unfortunately, at 18 a lot of people think they know everything and are invincible (me included ) But sadly not.
bortaf Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 I was the same TBH but i had luck as a co-pilot,,,, fortunatly for me BUT to be fare the best me mum lent me was a Mk3 cortina GT, TBH if she had lent me a bloody M5 i expect i'd be dead as well by now probably most of us would ! Can't you lock them things in a "low power, safe for a silly 18 year olds to use" setting?
DoireMan Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Makes me think maybe I should be more careful in my new 144bhp Capri...
MightySprocket Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 very sad but you wouldn't let a 5 year old play with a loaded gun
sab6024 Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 That's really sad but what Dad in their right minds would let their 18 year old son drive a 500bhp BMW
Chris! Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 sad news, but his dad was stupid for letting him use the car
hotrodholty Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 sad story, in australia dont they have a bhp limit and no v8's for new drivers? if the states had this in place it would have never happened
FredTransit Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 That's a sad story, but somehow to be expected if you give an 18 year old a 500bhp car. What was his dad thinking? Plenty of kids in this country die in their first cars, and they are nowhere hear as high powered.
Copey Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 just like to make the point that not all young drivers are idiots!! yeah the dad shouldnt have given him the car in the first place, but at 18 he should know better than to be doing some dumb shit in it! i know my capri doesnt compare to an m5, but its a hell of a lot more powerfull and faster than the cars my friends and other people me age have, and i dont drive any quicker in it than any of them do in ther 1.1s, if anythin i drive slower than they do!
FredTransit Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 Ni, not all new young drivers are idiots, but they are all inexperienced, and with a powerful car it's a recipe for disaster. My first ride was a LWB Mk1 transit with an AWESOME 2L V4 engine . amazingly I never hit anything, and I am still around to tell the tale.
surfingturnip Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 it wont let me view it but I get the gist of the post. A terrible loss but what else can be expected when an 18 year old gets given such a powerful car?
Mr Sam Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 telling me ive got to be a member to view it
blower Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 they must have a lot of traffic , also told me i had to sign up after id got to page 5 this was the outcome , the video of the wreck was a lump of metal http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stor ... 5U01.shtml
Mrs O/H/C Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 telling me ive got to be a member to view it ME TOO..
bmxdave Posted January 30, 2008 Report Posted January 30, 2008 You have to apply a bit of common sense to your driving. It doesnt matter about age, but age can affect your common sense. Im still only young, i havnt been driving for long, but im fairly confident in my driving. Not my ability but my judgement. I drive very fast very often but with a very large amount of care. Coming from a 1.3 mk2 cortina where i could floor it in any gear, and unless i was intentionally doing so, it wouldnt bat an eyelid. I jumping into my 140 bhp pop and knew straight away that i couldnt boot it whenever i felt like it. I also knew i was in a machine of much greater potential and ability and therefore more dangerous. Thats something young people dont realise these days, that ability doesnt increase with the cars abilty. Id be no better a driver in an M5 then i would a smart car. It is sad. And its also why insurance is so expensive. If there was some sort of mandatory advance driving course, where people where allowed to find their limits then a lot less of these types of incidents would happen.
Messenjah Posted January 31, 2008 Report Posted January 31, 2008 its a really sad story and yes the father is stupid for letting the kid have a go in his car .... buut at 18 he should be mature enough not to fook around too much in the wrong places if you wanna test your cars straight line speed take it down the strip if you wanna est handling take it on a track day .... 5 people in the car .... any 18 year olds on this forum that would dream of speeding when the car is 5 up ???? i only usually speed when its just me in the car or me and a passenger when the roads are empty .... and i know i shouldnt speed but i do and im unlikely to stop lol as for all young drivers being very inexperienced yeah we may not have as many years under our belt but i know for a fact that i have not mant less miles under my belt then my uncle and he is 29 been driving for 10 years .... he does 5k miles a year so he has only got 50k under his belt and 25k of those were over five years ago ......... ive been driving a year and a half and have 40,000 miles under my belt im not saying im an amazing driver im saying for someone my age i have alot of road experince in quite a few different cars the most powerfull being a 320bhp jaguar xj8 and the slowest being a 2.5tdi landrover and most of the miles being racked up in my black 2.0s capri ive never had an accident involving another car i have lost it once and hit a keep left sign asfter coming round a very slippery corner a bit too fast but i would say im a fairly safe driver and alot more so then most of my m8s who just arent aware enough of whasts going on around them ....
H.P.E harry Posted January 31, 2008 Report Posted January 31, 2008 That's really sad but what Dad in their right minds would let their 18 year old son drive a 500bhp BMW Very true, my dad let me have a go in his 220bhp escort but with him sitting next to me and telling me to slow down everytime i got near 40mph! Makes you think alot though, sad story.
sab6024 Posted January 31, 2008 Report Posted January 31, 2008 That's really sad but what Dad in their right minds would let their 18 year old son drive a 500bhp BMW Very true, my dad let me have a go in his 220bhp escort but with him sitting next to me and telling me to slow down everytime i got near 40mph! Makes you think alot though, sad story. My dad wouldn't even get in a car with me until I'd been driving a few years I won't even drive hellblue's cortina unless I'm on an A road. Don't wanna spank it for him, the idea of losing it on a corner is scary
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