02-02-2006, 05:01 AM
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Roll-Overed E60 M5
http://www.autospies.com/article/ind...&categoryId=21
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Originally Posted by Lonnie
Dear 001,
This M-5 customer called me a couple hours after rolling this brand new 2006 M-5 4 times.
The deputy who responded to the accident asked where the body of the driver was at. The deputy become aggitated when the driver who was standing there with not a scratch on him responded that he was the driver.
The deputy thought he was playing with him. The deputy's aggrevation grew when another man who was standing there vouched for him as being the driver of the M-5. The deputy then asked the man who he was and did he see the accident. The man advised the deputy that he was the passenger of the M-5. Neither of the men had a scratch on them. Our client is bragging to everyone he meets as to the engineering abilities that his BMW has that kept them safe.
Lonnie Plank
Director of Customer Relations
BMW of Austin
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02-02-2006, 05:54 AM
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not a scratch, eh? i dunno about that...... 
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02-02-2006, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Garretts_turbo
not a scratch, eh? i dunno about that...... |
I'm kind of skepctial too considering the 5-series isn't even a 5-star in the euro-ncap. Well well some poeple are just lucky..
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02-02-2006, 10:15 AM
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Although, I don't doubt a BMW's safety- I think this one has more to do with luck than anything. He needs to take something like this a little more serious.
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02-02-2006, 10:19 AM
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:shock:
The driver should atleast be hurt after totalling a car such as the M5
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02-02-2006, 11:17 AM
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Sounds abit fishy......
Just few hours over a big accident like this and u are calling the Director of Customer Relations??
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02-02-2006, 11:25 AM
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 i know the wreck isn't funny, but one of my coworkers just returned from M5 class. One of his buddies in Texas sent him that picture and he had it taped to his toolbox yesterday
BMW does alot of testing to make sure the passener compartment retains it's shape and rigidity in wrecks like this. Some of you may remember the E39 M5 that hammered the X5 that thamar posted some months ago and how, with exception of the jaws of life, the M5's compartment was still intact for the most part. and the X5's compartment wasn't deformed at all.
I think they both have alot to owe to the side curtain airbags as well as their seatbelts. Had they not been wearing them, they would have been fucked. No question.
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02-02-2006, 11:33 AM
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It's good to know some companies (especially German ones) go that extra step to ensure their cars keep the occupants safe.
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02-02-2006, 11:57 AM
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WTF...not the M5 
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02-02-2006, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Shinri_Shiogami
It's good to know some companies (especially German ones) go that extra step to ensure their cars keep the occupants safe.
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yeah. Having things like the autobahn really make you step up your game with safety
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02-02-2006, 12:19 PM
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02-02-2006, 12:40 PM
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wow that must have been a killer to see. I wonder how they came out from the car. Sunroof?
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02-02-2006, 01:08 PM
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thru the boot 
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02-02-2006, 08:33 PM
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Aw seeing the M5 like that makes me want to cry
Very impressed the passenger compartment, esp the roof, held up so well. That looks like one hell of a roll :shock:
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02-02-2006, 08:57 PM
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the car is wreck proof but apparently not retard proof :roll:
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