All the talk of three crashes being excessive for a new car before being released...hmm, I think if we could get a more inside look at car testing in general, and specifically sports/exotic-car testing, we'd see a lot more crashes...we just don't hear about them, because its obviously really bad press. As someone already said, we have the internet now, and with that we have very extensive networks of insider information, that give us news that normally wouldn't become public for along time, if ever (obviously not in this case). Bad news travels
really fast.
Just because Balboni crashed one car doesn't make him a bad driver or the car dangerous/bad, he was after all pushing the limits of the car. I would venture to guess he has crashed at least half a dozen Lambos in his career (probably more). Maybe not, but its not unlikely, and Lambo hasn't fired him yet. Driving a car, ANY car, fast and on the limit, is inhertenly dangerous.
I've heard the great Walter Rohl tanked three CGT's during testing, and that's a much more limited production car than the LP will be... I'm sure plenty of Diablos and Countachs and Miuras were crashed during testing as well, its a fact of life.
ANY car with ANY driver can crash, no matter how good the car is, and no matter how good the driver is...
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Originally Posted by insane
No way. This has to put a lot of people thinking of buying one off. I mean if three have already been crashed before its release....and one by the official test driver.
Seems like the Lambo "safeness" that appearad with the original Murci and the Gallardo is going away again.  |
I doubt it will put too many people off, how many people were put off by the crashes of the CGT during testing?
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