rockville

I was wondering about Nunco's post. When Germany OK'ed the idea of no speed limits how fast were cars going? I mean if a slow driver was say going 70 and a fast driver was doing say 110 that's quite a bit different than a fast driver doing 180+. In the 1960s you figure most cars weren't good for much over 100 so unrestricted meant perhaps 50 mph difference between fast and slow. When the difference between fast and slow might be 100 mph (slow being 80 mph) perhaps a speed limit isn't a bad idea? Would a 120 mph cap make sense? Unrestricted or not a 100 mph delta in speeds is really too much in my opinion. Race car drivers really dislike speed deltas much smaller than that (admittedly in racing vs highway cruising conditions).

scuderiax8

wow ..glad they are okay

twinpnoy84

Man, at least we know the M5 is a safe car. Im glad everyone made it out ok

tarheel91

You wouldn't drive the same way on the Autobahn that you do on a US highway. The responsibility is on the lane changer to do so at a safe time. At a 100mph delta, you have 9 seconds to react given a quarter mile visibility (which seems poor given average weather conditions and the large radius turns that the speeds on the Autobahn require). At that sort of delta, it's easy to tell someone's coming up on you fast and you need to GTFOver. Even if you can't move over instantly, you accelerate to increase the time between you and the oncoming car until you can get over, and reduce the amount of speed the faster driver needs to shave off should you not move over. You shouldn't be going from merging onto highway directly to the fast lane on the autobahn anyways, that's unsafe driving.

It's exactly why getting your license is more difficult and requires more training in such areas.

Danwolski

Im sort of concerned for the dog. Was it just thrown around in the rollover??

Gymkata

Hopefully he jumped out before the impact...

blasphemy101

Something similar happened in my hometown. A bunch of kids were trying to top out an M3 on an airstrip. Hitting one of the barriers near the end of the runway, they were sent through the air and hit a big tree that split the car in half. From what I remember, all of them died and the police said the car was going 150+ when it hit the tree.

He had been posting on a forum asking about controlling the car at such high speeds before he left for the airstrip.

[EDIT] Nevermind, I guess we're talking about the same story - it was an M5.

M5 Crash

NuncoStr8

Surely any 60 y.o. moron who thinks a good way to get in the pants of the 20 y.o. girl riding shotgun is to cartwheel his new M5 across farmfields at 180+ mph with her inside would think to strap the dog into a harness ensuring it didn't get hurt in the ensuing shenanigans, don't you think?

Presto123

That looks pretty bad. I would've assumed death to all for sure. I can only imagine what a 100+ crash would feel like.

TruBluS2k