The Automobile Thread

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This is quite the find, stored away in an old garage for so many years:-

[video=youtube;FsuIuyiJEjw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsuIuyiJEjw&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]

They drive like crap apparently. Once you get ove a certain speed the front end starts to lift and you have f-all control over the steering. Down to the design so im led to believe.
 
Very unfortunate and sad accident on motorway in poor weather conditions - possibly not wearing his seat-belt?

Belgian Wolfsburg midfielder Malanda killed in car crash

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The photo provided by police shows a white Volkswagen Touareg after a car crash on the Autobahn A2 near Porta Westfalica, central Germany, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. Wolfsburg midfielder and Belgium youth international Junior Malanda was killed in the car crash on Saturday, Wolfsburg police said.

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Malanda was a passenger in a Volkswagen Touareg that was traveling toward Hannover when it went off the motorway "for as yet unknown reasons" near Bielefeld in western Germany, police said in a statement.

"The car broke through the right guardrail, hit a tree, and flipped over several times in the embankment. The car came to a stop on its roof. One person was thrown out of the vehicle by the accident and died at the scene," the police said. "This was the 20-year-old Belgian Bundesliga player of VFL Wolfsburg, Bernhard Geoffrey Malanda Adje."

The driver and another passenger, both also 20-year-old Belgians, were seriously injured and taken to nearby hospitals. The motorway was blocked for about two hours.

"The car was totally destroyed in the accident. At the time, there was heavy rain and gale-force winds," the police statement said.


http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/article5898237.html
 
What a waste of automobiles!

Solent ship grounded: Land Rovers, Jaguars and other luxury cars worth £100m could be lost on stricken cargo ship

Around 1,400 Jaguars, Minis and Land Rovers were on the Hoegh Osaka

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More than £100 million worth of cars including Jaguars, Minis, Land Rovers and a Rolls-Royce could be lost on a cargo ship that ran aground off the Isle of Wight.

The captain of the 51,000-tonne Hoegh Osaka deliberately beached it on Bramble Bank on Saturday to stop it capsizing as it listed dangerously in the Solent.

Its 25 crew members were rescued but the fate of the 1,400 luxury and standard cars, as well as 80 pieces of construction equipment, is uncertain.

The 180-metre ship is currently partially submerged at a 45 degree angle and the operation to re-float it could take weeks.

Calculations by The Independent’s Sean O’Grady put the cargo’s value at around £102 million, not counting the added cost of the custom upgrades and extras on many cars destined for the Middle East.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...d-be-lost-on-stricken-cargo-ship-9959230.html

 
What a waste of automobiles!

Solent ship grounded: Land Rovers, Jaguars and other luxury cars worth £100m could be lost on stricken cargo ship

Around 1,400 Jaguars, Minis and Land Rovers were on the Hoegh Osaka

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More than £100 million worth of cars including Jaguars, Minis, Land Rovers and a Rolls-Royce could be lost on a cargo ship that ran aground off the Isle of Wight.

The captain of the 51,000-tonne Hoegh Osaka deliberately beached it on Bramble Bank on Saturday to stop it capsizing as it listed dangerously in the Solent.

Its 25 crew members were rescued but the fate of the 1,400 luxury and standard cars, as well as 80 pieces of construction equipment, is uncertain.

The 180-metre ship is currently partially submerged at a 45 degree angle and the operation to re-float it could take weeks.

Calculations by The Independent’s Sean O’Grady put the cargo’s value at around £102 million, not counting the added cost of the custom upgrades and extras on many cars destined for the Middle East.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...d-be-lost-on-stricken-cargo-ship-9959230.html
Now that is a good thing in a sense .................. these cars will have to be made all over again!
Overtime for the workers ................ yeh baby!
 
Now that is a good thing in a sense .................. these cars will have to be made all over again!
Overtime for the workers ................ yeh baby!

I wonder what their salvage value is for a potential restoration project?