scratch another CGT

[svandamme]

http://www.porscheforum.nl/album_pic.php?pic_id=15124

rough translation

swiss hotel guest gave the cgt to a south african woman for a testdrive, less than a mile from the hotel , she lost control on the twisties...kissed a few trees and that was it for the testdrive.

note , swiss guy not in the car , passenger was another hotel guest, a belgian

driver heavely wounded
passenger only a bit

mistake 1 : lend out a cgt to anyone
mistake 2 : lend out a cgt to someone you hardly know
mistake 3 : lend it out to a woman

[k9handler]

nothing opens oin the link, except the words Geen Toegang

[svandamme]

must be some hotlink protection on that other forum,
i'll upload locally

[k9handler]

wow....that has to bee the worse of the busted up GT's I have seen.

[Dutchie]

any news on the condition of the driver Stijn ? the article said she was still in the wreck and the firemen had to cut her out of it , the engine was meters away from it. Must have been a very hard collison.

[svandamme]

it says heavely wounded, to me that says bad but not critical, maybe lost an arm or a leg, but they don't mention driver taken away in critical condition , so i'de say still breathing...

dunno bout engine beeing meters away , i think it's still attached in the pic
maybe writer saw the tranny or something...

[k9handler]

no that appears to be the engine in the road, with the front 3/4 of the car on the roadside.

[svandamme]

some more pics came up

[9dreizig]

Looks like the front rotors and calipers are in good shape. think they'll be for sale?? LOL

[svandamme]

i got dibs on the balsawood gearknob.

[bell]

technology is great......notice how nice the passenger compartment held it's shape.....although i'm sure they have "splitting" headaches

[silverc4s]

Originally posted by bell
technology is great......notice how nice the passenger compartment held it's shape.....although i'm sure they have "splitting" headaches

I am afraid the the rate of decel would exceed human limits in a crash like that, no matter how strong the CF structure.
Is there any word on the driver / passenger's condition? Hoping for the best, in spite of my comments..

[svandamme]

that cockpit did not hold ,
the firebrigade had to cut out the driver, seriously wounded, but the article did not mention critical condition...

[lvporschepilot]

I heard that the CGT is a very difficult car to drive. On a recent trip to the Lamborghini dealer out here, I talked with my salesman buddy Nick who just took in a CGT(black) for consignment. Nick, is by all means an expert driver of exotic cars. He took the car out for a test drive and stalled it 3 times in the parking lot. Ouch. Jay Leno spun his. Almost half of them will be destroyed by idiots. Perhaps Porsche should have had some sort of training in Germany when you buy the car a la Ferrari Enzo. A training coursewould undoubtedly give the consumer a better understanding for the limits these cars have and how to handle those limits.

Another very difficult car to drive is the Lotus Elise. Most definitely a driver's car yet, I see many a female-cel-phone-yaking-Las Vegas-real- estate-agents driving them though, I would hardly call it driving. More like controlled dodging.

[svandamme]

Elise difficult??? the one i drove went where i wanted it to go , when i wanted it to go there... if that's a difficult sports car, then i don't know what is easy?

[lvporschepilot]

For someone who knows what they are doing it is a great car but, I could understand how many unexperienced drivers would think it is unruly and tail happy.

[svandamme]

for those kind of people , any sports car is going to be difficult , bit unfair singling out the Elise...because of one example unfortunate enough to be in the hands of a crappy driver... i'm sure there's folks who can loose control in a Golf Rabbit, in fact, i know people who have done just that...doesn't make a Rabbit a difficult car ... in fact , if there is anything easy and predictable, it's a VW Rabbit...

[9dreizig]

I heard that the CGT is a very difficult car to drive. On a recent trip to the Lamborghini dealer out here, I talked with my salesman buddy Nick who just took in a CGT(black) for consignment. Nick, is by all means an expert driver of exotic cars. He took the car out for a test drive and stalled it 3 times in the parking lot. Ouch. Jay Leno spun his. Almost half of them will be destroyed by idiots. Perhaps Porsche should have had some sort of training in Germany when you buy the car a la Ferrari Enzo. A training coursewould undoubtedly give the consumer a better understanding for the limits these cars have and how to handle those limits.

Another very difficult car to drive is the Lotus Elise. Most definitely a driver's car yet, I see many a female-cel-phone-yaking-Las Vegas-real- estate-agents driving them though, I would hardly call it driving. More like controlled dodging.

Come on you mean having the money to afford one doesn't automatically qualify you to drive one ??? What's up with that??

[lvporschepilot]

lol. I forgot that money can buy experience. heh

[randywebb]

most humans will black out at 6 g's but regain consciousness enough in a few seconds to fly a jet

not sure what the g's would be when you hit a tree at speed xx, with a crush structure and airbags...

they must have really been speeding to rip the car in half