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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:06 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Perky Penguin
This happened, allegedly at 199 mph, and in the wet! Apologies that is from the Daily Wail

tinyurl.com/6e8aomg
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:09 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Iffy
...Apologies that is from the Daily Mail...

For once, let's concentrate on the message rather than the messenger, shall we?

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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:14 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - John Eva
Wow, thats going to be one big loss for both the owner and the insurance company. Owner is not going to get anywhere close to what he first paid for it from the insurance company and the insurance company have to make a hudge payout compared to the money they would have got from the insurance policy.
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:39 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - movilogo
No airbag in £1.4m car??

Aquaplaning at just 62 MPH? Unlikely in a standard car with good tyres.

99.9999% people will never experience these types of cars. So how these cars are superior to standard family cars is debatable :o)

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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:45 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Perky Penguin
Aquaplaning can occur, on a very wet road, at a speed of 8.6 times the square root of the tyre pressure. So, in a standard saloon car (36psi) this could happen around 50 mph. 199 mph looks ill advised!
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:46 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Zero
>> Aquaplaning can occur, on a very wet road, at a speed of 8.6 times the
>> square root of the tyre pressure. So, in a standard saloon car (36psi) this could
>> happen around 50 mph. 199 mph looks ill advised!

Does that include the width of the tyre? It has very wide tyres, that could increase the likelyhood of aquaplaning.
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:47 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Zero
>> Wow, thats going to be one big loss for both the owner and the insurance
>> company. Owner is not going to get anywhere close to what he first paid for
>> it from the insurance company and the insurance company have to make a hudge payout
>> compared to the money they would have got from the insurance policy.

Pah thats nothing, someone totalled a veyron near to where I live.
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:42 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Focusless
>> This happened, allegedly at 199 mph

Sorry PP - where did the 199 come from? Like movilogo I can only see 'just over 100kph' mentioned in the report.
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 19:48 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Perky Penguin
From a site called auoblog, found by googling for news re Zonda crash.

Millionaire tuner survives 199mph Pagani Zonda smash.

tinyurl.com/6e8aomg

The 100 kph came from the Mail which is widely admired for the technical merit and accuracy of its ramblings
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New Thu 24 Feb 11 15:39 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - hobby
>> From a site called auoblog, found by googling for news re Zonda crash.
>>
>> Millionaire tuner survives 199mph Pagani Zonda smash.
>>
>> The 100 kph came from the Mail which is widely admired for the technical merit
>> and accuracy of its ramblings
>>

And its mentioned in the Telegraph report as he was within the speed limit for the road, just hit a big puddle and lost it...

I suspect that phrase you quoted just means a Millionaire who owns a Zonda that is capable of 199mph, rather than it was going at 199mph! Lazy English...
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New Thu 24 Feb 11 15:53 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Armel Coussine
>> Lazy English...

Not so hobby. Run-of-the-mill sexed-up headline writing is what it is.
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New Thu 24 Feb 11 17:09 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - hobby
Yes, you're probably right!
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 20:04 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Skoda
Would a wrecked Zonda be worth much? Not sure if you can recycle carbon fibre?

Suppose you could ebay an alloy from that wreckage, maybe a rear brake caliper.
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 21:43 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - BobbyG
Thats some amount of cars for a 28 year old banker?

Just backs up how poor the banking system is. Must be about, what , £7m or £8m worth of cars? And he can afford that and the insurance at 28?

I wonder what attracted the 21 year old girl to him?
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 23:05 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - smokie
I remember at Sebring racetrack a few years back a mate blagged a piece of a wrecked racecar after the race as a souvenir. Virtually the whole bonnet actually.

We had earlier bought Aston Martin baseball caps as it was hot and they were cheap.

Security stopped us leaving the paddock with the bonnet, then noticed the caps and assumed we were team and let us through. btw the carbon fibre was damn sharp, quite a few cuts on us after carrying it back to the tent. And impossible to cut up, or stamp on until broken!

Same mate blagged a race alloy as the basis for a coffee table which he had fun shipping back to the UK.
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New Wed 23 Feb 11 23:20 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Iffy
Around £1,000 buys you a Jag V12 engine block coffee table:

www.v12designs.co.uk/products/
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New Thu 24 Feb 11 10:31 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Mike Hannon
Less than that can buy you the whole car, so you can recycle lots of other bits...
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New Thu 24 Feb 11 15:48 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - FotheringtonTomas
I have only just realised that the title does *not* say "Paganini".
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New Thu 24 Feb 11 15:50 
 Pagani - Pagani Wrecked - Zero
I assumed we would would be talking about ham and cheese all over the floor.
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