those dirty italians don't know how to build cars

[jeff121]

http://www.lambounfall.de/indexe.html

[Paul]

Mmmm ... Lambo ... or R8 ... four rings for me ... very sad to read so many people have been seriously injured ... and even worse that some have lost their lives driving a car designed to be driven at speed ...

[mozza]

it's not the cars that kill
it 's the drivers who probable have'nt had any training to drive such power full cars
i know when i learn't to fly i had to do a minium of 40hours to pass my test and 7 written exams and i still have to have a test once a year to keep my licence

so lets not blame the car

[Tonyr8]

I believe what Jeff posted. The biggest hindrance for me in buying Italian is poor build quality period.

[996TT]

Tragic crash, the kid has certainly been through a lot.
In the US, he never would have had the suit against him dismissed!
I'm not saying a mechanical failure was not possible, but there are LOTS of ways a relatively inexperienced driver can spin a car like that on a straight road. (ie upshift to 6th, catches 4th by mistake, the rear tires slide and the car goes sideways) Hell, even a twitch of the wheel can spin a car easily at 120mph+.
By the way, do you people know Audi owns Lambo and certainly monitors quality control?

[Paul]

... ... ...
By the way, do you people know Audi owns Lambo and certainly monitors quality control?

I think most people here already knew that Audi owns Lamborghini ... if they didn't before reading your post and this ... they will now ... your points about snatching 4th by mistake, or a twitch on the steering wheel at high speed, are both quite valid ... anything other than smooth inputs to the control of the car travelling at speed, that can upset it's direction ... can be enough to send a it out of control ... to tragic effect.

[jeff121]

I've done 120 mph before on the highway in a piece of **** $5,000 4 cylinder Daytona without encountering anything other than vibration which quickly made me slow down. I was about 19 years old..

This guy wasn't an inexperienced driver if you read the site

The fact that I had driving experience of 100,000km till the accident and that I was doing motorsports for already 5 years as well as the fact that the accident happened on a nearly straight road in great condition didn't change anything in their opinions.

[Paul]

I've done 120 mph before on the highway in a piece of **** $5,000 4 cylinder Daytona without encountering anything other than vibration which quickly made me slow down. I was about 19 years old..
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Sorry Jeff ... but I must be missing something ... what point are you trying to make in your statement above ...

[jeff121]

that a $250,000 super car shouldn't fall apart doing 80 mph down a highway

It's commen sense this accident was NOT the drivers fault. He would of had to have done some pretty stupid things for it to have been.

If this would of happened on a winding road than it would have most likely been the driver going too fast and losing control but it's pretty hard to crash any car going down a straight highway unless something goes wrong with the car.

[Paul]

that a $250,000 super car shouldn't fall apart doing 80 mph down a highway

True enough ... but there doesn't seem to be conclusive pointers as to whether 'the incident' at ... "about 68% of maximum speed" ... i.e. about 140mph ... was ... mechanical failure ... or driver error.

Either way ... the end result was not nice ... but, neither mechanical failure ... or driver error ... has been proven.