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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 10:41 AM
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what is he doing driving in the rain?
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/03/05/aw-snap...n-public-roads/
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 11:17 AM
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Ouch...
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 11:19 AM
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I might as well be the first one to say.....that will buff right out?
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 11:58 AM
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thier ugly anyway
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 12:02 PM
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Think their insurance company is going to keep them on board?
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Gymkata,Mar 5 2007, 12:19 PM
I might as well be the first one to say.....that will buff right out?
Too late. The writer already did.

It was bound to happen. At least it wasn't obliterated like the Enzo and CGT crashes we've seen over the last couple years. That damage looks repairable, expensive or not. Most of the Enzo/CGT crashes leave barely a wheel to tell the story.
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Old Mar 5, 2007 | 05:01 PM
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No great loss IMO.
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Old Mar 6, 2007 | 01:40 AM
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lol at the quote from the author : for a car that costs a million bucks, if any hydroplanning is detected, you'll expect it to go into hovercraft mode, of course that wasnt the case here.

but yea.. quiet sad. but highspeed testing in the rain???????
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Old Mar 6, 2007 | 05:42 AM
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A friend who drove the Veyron, did over 150mph in the rain with it and said that it was perfectly stable...
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Old Mar 6, 2007 | 12:52 PM
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That article is pretty stupid. Who knows why it crashed. Just giving a bit too much throttle, with that much HP, could spin you off the road. Implying it's unstable at speed in rain is silly. And from the damage he obviously wasn't going 150 anyway.
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