r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/MarthaFarcuss • Jun 06 '23
WCGW driving a high-powered sports car
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u/Professional-Arm-24 Jun 06 '23
Thank God he didn't crash into a child....fucking cunt!
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u/phenyle Jun 06 '23
Money can't buy skills or brain cells
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u/MarthaFarcuss Jun 06 '23
It can but morons don't think it's worth it
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u/Andre6k6 Jun 06 '23
He could only afford a Lambo rental or driving lessons, but not both
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u/Lanthemandragoran Jun 06 '23
I truly don't understand how these rental companies get insured lol
The cost must be insane
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u/SaltySpituner Jun 06 '23
A looooot of idiots will go broke for two weeks just to make one instagram post with a rented luxury car so they can pretend it’s theirs or feel important.
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u/spinyfur Jun 06 '23
If it’s a rental, I’m shocked you could turn off the traction control at all. If I was renting these, I’d definitely lock that out.
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u/jeef16 Jun 06 '23
yep, most exotic rental businesses dont last too long. it's really hard to do it smart since people WILL destroy your shit. if they dont crash it, they will abuse the interior and engine to the point where either the interior looks like shit or you're stuck with a huge mechanic bill. or someone steals the car straight up. but if you're somehow lucky enough to have a car survive that, then you get the pleasure of buying that car from your own rental business at a heavily depreciated price and now you can drive around a beat up exotic you got for relatively cheap! (if you dont count the amount you lost owning the car under the business)
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u/Guerillagreasemonkey Jun 06 '23
I've driven some big horsepower cars and a few exotics. I've also driven an absolute swathe of total shitboxes and rickety shed built monstrosities
IMO The reason these things are so wild is that they are engineered SO WELL that driving them at 90% of their limit is no harder than driving them at 40%. They are amazing machines that are actually very forgiving, right up until they aren't. At which point you're moving really rather fast, and the fuckup is usually quite spectacular.
This isnt to defend the drivers, but as someone who has driven some pretty wild machines I can absolutely see how this exact situation keeps happening.
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u/FormalWrangler294 Jun 06 '23
Disagree, what you said is true for when TC and ESC is on.
ESC off? Most people can’t drive a Huracan.
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u/arielif1 Jun 06 '23
You can. Just don't treat the throttle like it owes you money, or overcorrect when you fishtail, or immediately let off the gas when you're at 5k+ rpm and losing traction. If this guy had the bare minimum knowledge of weight transfer and how RWD oversteer works, he'd still have a lambo. But to be fair, this is the target demographic that Lamborghini aims towards. At least other exotic manufacturers try to avoid them
(tbf haven't tried a huracan, but have tried ridiculous rwd tuner cars)
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u/OhAces Jun 06 '23
I hope they bought the extra insurance when they rented that thing.
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u/RoriksteadResident Jun 06 '23
How do these rental companies keep getting these moron magnet supercars insured? Every day it seems there's a video of some idiot going "vroom vroom" right into a wall. It can't be profitable to rent out million dollar cars to twits.
This has to be a money laundering scam somehow.
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u/NERD_NATO Jun 06 '23
If you charge enough, it's likely profitable. And these idiots will pay anything for a shot at looking like a certified Cool Guy.
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u/RoriksteadResident Jun 06 '23
Maybe the rental companies need to explain that stomping on the gas in a 630 horsepower car can cause some control instability. The looking like a Cool Guy part would last longer than 14 seconds.
Maybe finishing fast is a thing for these guys though, who am I to judge?
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u/NERD_NATO Jun 06 '23
Oh, that's just the guys being stupid. These cars typically have driver assist settings like traction control, which would avoid situations like this, but those guys think "oh I don't need that, I'm a good driver" and immediately realize that they've never driven something like this before.
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u/RoriksteadResident Jun 06 '23
Like Mustang drivers with more money. Just punch it! All the power will just automagically find its way to the road somehow, right?
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u/Jackm941 Jun 06 '23
They rental places need to disable the TC option actually any options that make it harder to drive. And maybe alter the acceleration curve or soemthing. If you want the full car buy the full car if your renting and it's limited to even be 80% as quick it's still gonna be an amazing experience just with so much less chance of fucking it.
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u/britboy4321 Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23
Looked out of interest .. about £1150 a day, if you have a squeaky clean license and are over 25 years old.
That also has some serious milage restrictions (250).
Incidentally they also hire them for a lot cheaper as 'non-drive prop' .. whatever that means!
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u/NERD_NATO Jun 06 '23
Probably for movie purposes, I'd assume. Need a bunch of fancy cars as set dressing for a party? Get them as props.
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u/_justtheonce_ Jun 06 '23
I would guess this and also Music Videos, I know a few guys who have rented expensive cars for theirs.
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u/konwiddak Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23
These cars can be rented for crazy amounts, starting at like £700 per day and the excess is likely £10,000. They also have a lot of residual value even when written off because the parts are valuable. A lot of them are software locked to not be able to turn off the traction control, and they have tracking systems which monitor how you drove the thing. If they deem you "raced" it - you can be on the hook for a massive maintenance bill with new tires/brakes e.t.c.
Also I've heard that a lot of them are just used for posing. People will use them to turn up to their wedding/prom e.t.c and won't even have a chance to drive it much.
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u/ProbablyNotChrisMayb Jun 06 '23
To add to the tacking systems thing they also monitor GPS and charge a lot more if the car is going to be used on a track.
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u/Kisame-hoshigakii Jun 06 '23
The business itself is there for laundering. Drug money will be laundered through the business. Lower value cars are used and rented out to local dealers because watching the same grey amg merc pull up to the shop only to fly off minutes later is obvious.
As someone already mentioned these cars have stupid excess amounts you have to pay before you're able to drive away.
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u/crazytib Jun 06 '23
Yikes fixing that wall is gonna be expensive
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u/roodeeMental Jun 06 '23
Definitely over £50 of damage right there!
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u/hundreddollar Jun 06 '23
I'd say at least £50.
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u/roodeeMental Jun 06 '23
My mate Dave is pretty handy with a screwdriver, he could do em a good deal
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u/hundreddollar Jun 06 '23
It's definitely going to need screwdrivers to fix it. Bell Dave up!
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u/MercantileReptile Jun 06 '23
To be fair, the vehicle honked.Wall should have known to get out of the way.
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u/evonebo Jun 06 '23
Driving high powered sports car isn’t the problem. The problem is turning off the safety features it has like traction control.
Bet the guy thought in his head that it’d be cool to drift or burnout.
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u/Imadethosehitmanguns Jun 06 '23
"Just mash the throttle"
"Hmm, starting to get squirrelly. Better keep mashing the throttle"
"Okay I'm definitely getting sideways, but I bet it looks cool as heck. I'll just keep the throttle pinned and use my skills to get out of this one"
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u/newmansnewman Jun 06 '23
In Australia, an absolute cunt called Alexander Campbell lost control of a Lambo and killed a 15 year old girl in almost identical circumstances to this. Given a suspended sentence so he didn't do a single day in jail. Looks exactly as soft cocked as you'd imagine: https://www.9news.com.au/national/lamborghini-driver-alexander-campbell-avoids-jail-over-crash-that-killed-teen-sophia-naismith/c38df279-a45e-4b79-bd49-13b65caa5b88?
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u/quetiapinenapper Jun 06 '23
In Los Angeles there’s Brendan Khuri who was 17 if I remember right and days after an accident like that got bought a brand new car by daddy he flashed to social media as his dad attempted to pay it all away into obscurity.
Haven’t checked on the story in a hot minute though until now and it runs out he did get a sentence after pleading guilty it seems after all which was apparently a brisk 7-9 months in a Juvie camp for you know… killing someone. And only a few years of probation.
He’ll be back to diving soon enough I imagine.
These dudes always look exactly like you imagine they do.
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u/brent_cockman Jun 06 '23
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u/AtebYngNghymraeg Jun 06 '23
Nah, it's only a brick wall. Half a day's work for a brickie. Couple hundred quid, tops.
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u/Toronai Jun 06 '23
You'd make a bad Tradie if you can't stretch that job out to 3 weeks, 2 price increases and a redesign.
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u/Exciting_Result7781 Jun 06 '23
That forged carbon spoiler looks sick though. Definitely worth more than my entire car. 😂
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u/Narrow_Competition41 Jun 06 '23
Maybe if he just drives in reverse all the time, nobody'll notice??? 😬
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u/MacheteMaelee Jun 06 '23
I always have a little giggle to myself when these morons fuck up their own dumb shit like this.
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u/imonredditfortheporn Jun 06 '23
they engineered a wonderful awd system for these cars to get most of the ridiculous torque on the road and people still manage to fuck up.
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u/nernerfer Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23
Jeremy Clarkson told them you cannot be cool until you find out how to turn Traction Control off.
An entire generation of drivers probably never realized they were being made fun of on Top Gear and internalized it as actual driving advice. Half of what JC says is sarcastic trolling but in retrospect I don't think a lot of their audience knows that.
(Source: I also grew up on Top Gear and didn't realize how much of it is utter trolling until years AFTER becoming old enough to drive. See: all the anti-'environmentalist' rants and skits, sniper enforced speed limits, referring to TC as 'nannying' electronics etc.)
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u/DR-JOHN-SNOW- Jun 06 '23
Look at them. That’s cars on a day lease.
Hope they paid extra for the insurance.
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u/And_yet_here_we_are Jun 07 '23
With some rental insurance turning off TC etc will void the insurance and the rental agreement.
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u/kitjen Jun 06 '23
I've never bought a supercar and it's likely I never will, but if you have the money for one then surely you have the money to take a few lessons on how to handle them?
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u/Bitch_Muchannon Jun 06 '23
Next to a bike lane and footpath.
Licence should be permanently revoked.
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u/MullahBobby Jun 06 '23
These (used in racing) cars can only be bought with parent's money.
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u/realtimesound Jun 06 '23
I used to work right next to where this happened and there's a big supercar rental place right there so it's probably a rental.
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u/kitjen Jun 06 '23
You can also max out a credit card hiring one for the day just so a few strangers briefly look at you and think you have more money than them.
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u/5t3v3th3r3d Jun 06 '23
I'm amazed by the amount of damage it caused seeing as it wasn't going that fast!!
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u/SillyMattFace Jun 06 '23
Cars are designed to smash up pretty easily to absorb impact and protect the driver. Think about how badly you can damage a car just by screwing up parallel parking, let alone spinning out of control like this jackass.
Plus I imagine these toy super cars are built to look cool and stroke the ego of idiots rather than be durable at all.
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u/Some_Belgian_Guy Jun 06 '23
Carbon fiber does not bend, carbon fiber does not break. Carbon fiber shatters.
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u/InteruptingParrot Jun 06 '23
Aww, did the widdle man cwash his super expwensive dong elongatow? I feel so bad for you, baby!
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u/stupidrobots Jun 06 '23
I can't imagine treating 500+ horsepower with anything other than respect especially on a public road
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u/hunteram Jun 06 '23
1) Turn off TCS
2) Accelerate like a moron and lose traction
3) Panic let off the gas and brake hard
4) Completely lose the rear as you shift all the weight forwards, further reducing grip where you most need it
5) Crash
Congratulations, you are now a meme.
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u/eatfreshguy407 Jun 06 '23
These videos are exactly why you can’t test drive many expensive cars. I used to sell hellcats and demons, and I’d get calls and walk ins every day of people expecting to come in and test drive $120k muscle cars. ‘It’s my sons birthday!’ So take him to a track that has one. ‘It’s my dream.’ Come back when your dream includes $120k to buy one.
Seriously, we’d have people almost wrecking $40k cars on simple test drives. There is no way we’d allow Mike off the street to drive these things. Also, I drove hellcats twice in my tenure after a sale, and they are scary powerful. I would never want to even own one, because it’s just too much for driving.
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u/Man_in_the_uk Jun 06 '23
We've seen these kind of crashes time and time again, can't they design these to go in a straight line?