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(Message started by: scorpio_man on Mar 6^th, 2007, 3:33pm)

Title: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by scorpio_man on Mar 6^th, 2007, 3:33pm

bbc website. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6423241.stm)

not a £800,000 a car!

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by Spannerdemon on Mar 6^th, 2007, 5:18pm

It's funny isn't it.

I've always said it. Many many times, these drivers in their super duper VERY expensive cars, are the lousiest drivers going. If he can afford a car like this, then he can afford the insurance. ;D

Looks like he wasn't driving it sensibly anyway, as the police are doing him.

HERE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/6422215.stm)

Isn't this similar to the one Clarkson was testing last year? ;)

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by the_boogeyman on Mar 6^th, 2007, 5:27pm

i wonder which garage had the luck of repairing it

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by Kjetil S on Mar 6^th, 2007, 5:55pm

Quite an impressive machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYKVoFkvHQ)

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by mr._floppy on Mar 6^th, 2007, 7:03pm

It's the same model that Top Gear's James May took to a 250 mph top speed in a recent programme.

...and they call the Scorpio ugly :-*

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by Kjetil S on Mar 6^th, 2007, 8:13pm

May be ugly, but it is still impressive ::)

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by TiberiuS on Mar 6^th, 2007, 8:13pm

Strange thing is that I saw that episode last night. I'm not into supercars but that is one helluva piece of engineering.

My father used to say a loaded gun was harmless, the person holding it is the danger...same with something like this, the driver becomes the inferior part.

If that was my car, it wouldn't even be allowed out in the wet, let alone on a busy road ::)

Regards, Bruce.

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by Spannerdemon on Mar 6^th, 2007, 10:49pm

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May be ugly, but it is still impressive]

Not wrapped round a bloody tree it isn't

Just another heap of highly expensive scrap metal now.

I wouldn't mind betting he's got a "My other car's a BMW" on the rear screen............. }{ }{ }{

Give me my Scorpio any day. :)

Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by Kjetil S on Mar 7^th, 2007, 12:20pm

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Title: Re: wouldn't want to be his insurer!!!!
Post by Alastair on Mar 7^th, 2007, 12:30pm

I heard that the driver was actually hirng this car from an executive hire company ( only the second time they'd hired it) at £20000 a day. Hope that included insurance.

Alastair