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The Rotary Diaries: Crashing my RX-8 and Dealing With the Aftermath
Pride comes before a fall, as yours truly can testify. More than two decades of driving, the best part of them behind test cars, I prided myself on having a clean record. Sure, I was handed some speeding tickets and I did have my share of near misses but, somehow, I had managed to steer clear of an accident. Now that record has been blotted by an accident in my RX-8; it was a low-speed one and, thank God, no one was hurt. Ironic that I would return the keys to every car handed to me, from a low-rent mini to a Porsche or a Bentley (the latter the company CEO’s personal car, no less) with not a scratch on them but I would crash my own car in a spectacularly silly way…
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Tesla Teaches Firefighters How To Safely Rip Apart An Ev
Firefighters and rapid response units have been tearing apart wrecked cars (in the event of a very serious accident like this recent Corvette Z06 crash) in order to safely extract their precious human cargo in the same way for decades. They knew they...
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A 79-year-old Florida Woman Reportedly Crashed Into This Lamborghini Aventador
What you're looking at here, is allegedly the result of a 79-year old female driver of an unidentified car crashing into a fairly new Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 in Sarasota, Florida, or at least that's what the accident-hunters over from WreckedExotics...
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Caught On Video: Nissan Gt-r Crashing Into Parked Cars In Moscow
A crazy car crash that took place in Moscow, Russia, on July 6, 2011, was caught on film by a pair of security cameras. The person responsible for the catastrophic scene you see in these aftermath photos that were shot on location is the driver of a...
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Swiss Court Slaps Millionaire With A Record Breaking $290,000 Speeding Ticket!
In most parts of the world, speed offenders are usually slapped on the wrist with a reasonable penalty. But not in Switzerland where high-speed fines are calculated based on the motorist's income and/or wealth. So what happens if the wrongdoer is...
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Tesla Roadster Test Drive Turns Into 100mph Crash Test In France
Since there aren't many Tesla Roadsters out on the roads, whenever one of them is involved in an accident, its headline news. What makes this Tesla Roadster crash story even more intriguing is the fact that, according to the crash-happy crew over...
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