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Old 7th November 2017, 05:06 PM
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Default S8 and A8 getting pranged

Just a Vid I was sent today. First one and @ 3:44
Also at 2:25 a Q7 showing that they don't wade water all that well.
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Old 7th November 2017, 05:39 PM
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D4 at 6 minutes is an eye opener.... Interesting post.....
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Old 7th November 2017, 06:18 PM
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R8 at the end was funny
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Fascinating, funny and a bit scary: my (ex...) wife did exactly the same as the 4.45 lamp post manoeuvre in my brand new Volvo 850 years ago , and I did the same as the shunt at ~ 6.15 .

The D4 smash that Ian mentioned is truly scary in terms of the force used - it take a lot of effort for a car to nearly make a truck topple like that!

But most of these are just sheer stupidity on the part of the driver, and sadly it seems that Audi drivers (in the UK at least..) seems to attract the sort of aggressive and "entitled" boorish behaviour that used to be reserved for BM drivers.

Are (new ) Audi drivers the BM drivers of today? Discuss...
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Old 7th November 2017, 09:01 PM
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Are (new ) Audi drivers the BM drivers of today? Discuss...
It's just a tag people get. It used to be BM drivers, and now it's Audi drivers. Next time it could be Merc drivers. You'll see lots of crash videos on YouTube by car manufacturer.

I think people are just getting lazy, and it's one of those things that annoys me about other drivers. I'd regularly give off about other drivers for not indicating, jumping lights, using the wrong lane or whatever else I can spot. It's even more interesting following police cars (not intentionally), when you see the number of faults they exhibit.

On a lighter note, the best comment I ever heard from someone about not using indicators was when I was living in New Zealand. We were sitting around at tea break and one young fellow (~20) said he never used indicators because "I know where I'm going".
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[quote=tintin;134704]
The D4 smash that Ian mentioned is truly scary in terms of the force used - it take a lot of effort for a car to nearly make a truck topple like that!
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I thought the truck driver did well to hold on it that, can't be the easiest thing to hold out sideways and when you're not expecting it, shame matey in the S didn't have the same talent.

2 tons or however heavy a D4 is hitting you up the jacksie at what? 30 mph quicker than you're travelling obviously can do some damage. Physics lesson over
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[quote=Dezzy;134792]
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The D4 smash that Ian mentioned is truly scary in terms of the force used - it take a lot of effort for a car to nearly make a truck topple like that!
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I thought the truck driver did well to hold on it that, can't be the easiest thing to hold out sideways and when you're not expecting it, shame matey in the S didn't have the same talent.

2 tons or however heavy a D4 is hitting you up the jacksie at what? 30 mph quicker than you're travelling obviously can do some damage. Physics lesson over
The brand or company name on that truck was somewhat ironic...
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The R8 happened in B'ham

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