A car fanatic was reduced to tears when his beloved Mercedes supercar was 'totally wrecked' after technicians fixing a minor fault crashed during a test drive.
John Guest left his unique Mercedes Benz SL65 AMG - which costs £170,000 to buy new - with technicians at a Mercedes dealer near his home in Poole, Dorset, to fix problems with its onboard computer.
Just hours after he had dropped his pride and joy off at Sandown Mercedes he received a call to say the flash motor had crashed on a nearby dual carriageway.
tinyurl.com/orl9yk6 - The Daily Wail
The dealership claims the car, which boasts a six-litre engine and a top speed of 180mph, was being driven 'legally and sensibly' when it spun off the road in bad weather.
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£25,000 pearlescent paint job.
No wonder it's the only one of 90 in the UK with that option.
It's not like it's an Alfa 8C.
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>> £25,000 pearlescent paint job.
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>> No wonder it's the only one of 90 in the UK with that option.
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90 x 25000 = £2,250,000
I wonder how much the paint cost ?
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I very much doubt the police said "the car was being driven legally and sensibly in the road conditions" as unless they were watching - they'd never know. Perhaps the former is true, but I totally don't believe it was sensibly driven - having an accident blows that one out of the water.
Crashing of a supercar by a driver unused to the power is regrettably too common. Photo suggests the road is straight at accident location too, so perhaps throttle floored, wheel(s) spun and directional control lost.
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Well might well be the driver, but like I said in the comments over on the Echo,
Well a traction control system that may or may not have had a fault, in a car that had aquaplaned in the recent past, isn't a good start. Don't think I'd fancy test driving a very powerful sports car, with those potential issues, in the wet.
Particularly as early 2000s wasn't exactly MB's 'golden era' in terms of build quality or design.
It's a decent, if busy, stretch of NSL dual carriageway with a couple of entry/exit slips along it.
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Mind if its cost me 30 grand in maintenance costs in three years I'd be glad to see the back of it.
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>> The dealership claims the car, which boasts a six-litre engine and a top speed of
>> 180mph, was being driven 'legally and sensibly' when it spun off the road in bad
>> weather.
Well clearly it wasn't being driven sensibly enough.
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>> Well clearly it wasn't being driven sensibly enough.
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Exactly Z. S'funny how every day in Britain millions of cars are not crashed during bad weather.
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I like the pearlescent paint but £25,000 sounds a lot for a paint job, even one by David Hockney. I like snorting monsters too, but there are lots of cheaper ones than that which in practical terms are just as good.
I wouldn't have one of those even if I could afford it. It's too much, and like so many Mercs a tiny bit hairdressery. But there's nothing 'flash' about it. But why do these downmarket newspapers always call expensive capable cars 'flash'? They are expressing mean ugly envy on their readers' behalf if you ask me.
The garage is going to have to find the blubbing owner something equivalent. It's gonna cost their insurance.
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Another motoring whoops in my neck of the woods, Audi A1 thinks it's an Astra:-
tinyurl.com/audi-1-shop-0
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the funny thing is, my mum used to work for Beals, and crashed her car into the front of Waitrose.
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>> the funny thing is, my mum used to work for Beals,
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The one in Walton on Thames?
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Mercedes Benz SL 55/65 AMG - Wrecked by Mechanics - Lygonos
