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[–] 159 points 4 months ago (13 children)

It is amazing how fast this car must have accelerated in this rather limited space to make an accident like this.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It was some jackass doing laps in the parking garage. The cringe boy racer kids do this shit because if it's not on the street then they can't catch charges beyond trespassing.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    @Treczoks That doesn't look like a sports car, either.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    This may be a whoosh but-
    Looks like a 15-17 Ecoboost Mustang
    315 hp
    0-60 in 5.2 sec
    1/4 mile in 13.9 @ 98mph

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You're right, I thought it was these

    https://www.driveandreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2015_ecoboost_mustang_review_10.jpg

    Must be a 4 series varient- should have seen those huge reflectors.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Final guess- M440i

    https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a34288846/2021-bmw-m440i-xdrive-by-the-numbers/

    382 hp 0-60 3.8 sec 1/4 mile 12.8 sec @ 112mph

    No slouch. Still impressed at the destruction in such a confined area.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Good AWD hookup and a total moron at the wheel.

    This is part of the reason I don’t like biking on busy roads anymore. The higher power the car has, the older the driver tends to be. Then the lower power cars are all driven by tired people and door dashers who are trying to watch the TV they are missing by door dashing 70 hours a week, or dipshits in trucks so big that they won’t even notice when they run me over.

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  • [–] 108 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    Absolutely amazing how intact the cabin is. Modern car safety is phenomenal.

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  • [–] 57 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Back in my day, cars killed their inattentive drunk drivers. Now, they just kill innocent children.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago

    the reason i'm a proponent of the adaptive cruise control systems is that i was very, very nearly in a 30 car pileup on the Grapevine (if you don't know the stretch of road, I-5 north of LA, south of bakersfield. very mountainy and curvy, there's always a fire or an accident when i drive by four times a year). It was foggy and the ACC saw the car ahead of me before I did, let us stop before hitting it and making it a 32 car pileup.

    When I was growing up (80s and 90s) that size accident would have multiple fatalities. Only one person had to go to the hospital, and she was pregnant. They wanted to check on the baby. Everyone else just had light bruising/abrasions.

    Modern cars seem like a miracle compared to what i started driving.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    "Innocent children"? Do you have children? Because mine are assholes whose only purpose is to constantly terrorize me and keep me poor. 🤣

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    They are too sensitive on here for jokes like that. Even the word truck or BANG scares them.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    That's between them and their therapists. It's even funnier for me because my kids and I (even my wife to a lesser degree) joke around in every conceivable way, bad, good and everything in between, and that's just how we roll in our family. My kids love it, evidently, me too. I imagine how many people are butthurt by that right now, and can't stop laughing when I think the images they must have of me in their heads without ever having crossed a word with me.

    Let them downvote me to hell, have some overly-delicate mod delete the post, or even ban me (no idea if that's even a thing here). It won't change anything.

    We're doomed as humans if all there is 'I'm offended' time anyone says anything. It used to be that everything was a joke, now they are the jokes. So sad.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think that's the driver at the beginning, sadly sitting against his wreck, but otherwise fine.

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  • [–] 80 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Support column built by the same company that makes telephone poles for GTA

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago*

    I hadn't played since it came out really and played some for the first time again last month. My dedecution has been if it's metal, you can plow through it, if it's wood it'll plow through you.

    And then all the sudden a few objects will defy these assumptions and you wind up driving through a fence and find a metal rod turning you into a pretzel.

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  • [–] 150 points 4 months ago* (20 children)

    That was a BMW M440i (i recognize the wheels, color and slope of the back). It has a 386hp/398lb-ft turbocharged inline 6 with a mild hybrid system. BMW says it can do 0-60 in 4.3s, but independent tests have shown it can do 3.9-4.1s

    Most likely this idiot used launch control in the parking structure wanting to show off and lost control, eating the pillar

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Why would this even be present in a street legal vehicle?

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I sometimes wonder why the US even has a government.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    What the hell, that's STOCK for a BMW M series?

    That makes skateboards sound safe.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    That's been pretty common in high end performance cars for over a decade. Good for Darwin awards.

    Fortunately it's also noisy enough that you can IMMEDIATELY tell and get the fuck out of the way. EVs need to start making noise like that lol.

    The Grand Tour did an absolutely hilarious take on it, even Clarkson agreed it's stupid in street cars

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That's the same thought I had, that's some incredible acceleration to have a crash like that inside a building.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Fun fact, not even the most powerful version of that car, that would be the M4 which can do under 3 seconds in the xDrive variant.

    But it has enough tuning potential that you could get M4 performance out of the M440i no problem. B58 is considered to be the modern day equivalent of the Toyota 2JZ, to the point that even Toyota uses it in the modern Supras.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, I saw some assuming he was drunk but it is just as likely that this guy made a split second decision and jumped on it thinking what could go wrong I've done it before and poof.

    People don't like to view vehicles as murder machines but they very much are. If raising the front end 40% increases the chance of death by 40% to pedestrians and the only benefis were "I like the way it looks" or in this case the car being designed to accelerate at speeds that arent comfortable or safe because "I think it can be fun sometimes" at the detriment of others is just poorly planned.

    Sure the guy is at fault, but so is the company that manufactured it, and the government bodies that allowed it on public roads.

    If someone wants to have a hobby playing with and racing cars, that's fine; but they don't belong in public areas.

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  • [–] 72 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You can't park there, mate

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  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 57 points 4 months ago*

    What do you mean "may not buff out?" Slap some fresh paint on, and that pillar should be good as new!

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That's a lot of headlight fluid.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago

    Marvel heroes:We did it! We saved the city!

    The city:

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I know it's a parking garage and all, but you can't park there mate.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago

    You can't park there mate.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Did he hit the accelerator rather than the brake?

    also crazy that he got going fast enough in a garage to do that much damage.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    Has some light cosmetic work but low miles and drives great!

    No lowball offers!! I know what I got!

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’m sorry, where is the fucking engine?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    How is my question. Also it looks like a modern art piece.

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    The Americans should build their houses like this column, instead out of paper mache.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They have a hard time even affording the cheap paper mache shit they make them out of now.

    I can't imagine how much more eye watering the price would be if they were made like this.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Could that be because companies use the cheapest materials and labour to then sell the houses expensively and reap massive profits??

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago*

    Yes it is pure greed and if you make it more expensive for them to do that then they will just gouge even harder to make up the difference in lost revenue.

    What we should really do is tie all of the CEOs of those companies up to poles like this and run into them like this guy did that column and after a couple of years the problem would solve itself.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well at least the old dipshit looks appropriately miserable. I give even odds on his insurance dropping him after this shit.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The old shithead, leaning on the rear tire, is lucky his fuck-up did not start a fire. Revoke his driver's license permanently.

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  • [+] -21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Because everyone knows cars won't start unless you have a valid license right?

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Very true - because taking away his license wouldn’t physically prevent him from operating a vehicle, we shouldn’t do it at all. Because incremental progress is for losers.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The spread of debris is honestly impressive.

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