Watch BMW drive off a cliff - CNN.com Video

Scary. and lucky. VERY lucky...

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hum.....
1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

I've often considered some BMW drivers very lemming like . . .

Would it make any difference if it was someone driving a Ford Fusion?

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'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Camera bolted to the outside of the car? Looks like he was going for a speed record or Youtube hero status and got burned. Hopefully this will be an expensive lesson not to drive like a douchenozzle on public roads.

He's lucky to be alive, but I hope that his insurance company will not pay one dime to replace his former toy. I ride motorcycles and bicycles quite a bit, and there's nothing that scares me more than wannabe Racer Ricks in sports cars driving 3x the speed limit on the wrong side of the road.

He's also lucky he didn't kill anyone else, or he'd be looking at a few decades wearing pink underwear as a special guest of Uncle Joe Arpaio.

GO LEMMINGS GO !!!

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

The video would be much slower, and the driver would be pushing up daisies...

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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Poor M3 Looks like he went in too hot and the front tires lost grip. I did that one rainy night in Mississippi in my 240D. Luckily all I hit was a lot of grass and was able to continue my trip.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I call B.S. on THIS! The only time I've ever seen the term "too hot" applied to a 240D was in July, in Tucson, and it was referring to the temperature of the car's exterior.

Wait, maybe I misunderstood your use of the phrase, "hit a lot of grass".

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It really happened. I was on a road trip to Atlanta in 2010. It was raining wolves and tigers (much worse than cats and dogs); I was somewhere in the vicinity of Tupelo, and was tired, having driven from about the middle of Oklahoma that day and night. It was an unfamiliar and poorly marked road, and I didn't see the turn until it was too late. I ran off in a field, but had an idea where the road was, and managed to maintain momentum across the field and get back on pavement, back to I-20, and found myself a cheap yet still overpriced motel to crash in not too long after. The next day's drive from Tupelo to my dad's house in ATL went quite a bit smoother.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Wow that car did good, if he was in an older car he would have been dead.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I would feel more comfortable about the demise of the car in that case.

Sadly, it will be you and I who pay for this 22 year old DB to drive a vehicle that is well beyond his capabilities at speeds that are well beyond his capabilities.

I wish the insurance company could decline to pay in such a case. They decline just about everything else for legitimate claims. Be nice to tell the DB to pound sand.

Would attempting to set a YouTube record qualify as a "speed contest or race?" I seem to recall signing a disclaimer that insurance isn't obligated to pay for damages incurred in such events.

...and the interior, when the AC isn't working.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

They would need to prove that he was in a "speed contest or race". Simply filming a drive probably would not be definitive in that regard.