Hey Nick, you be careful when that car's done!

[tanman_sg]

This is the tree's damage when the car hit it at 80mph.

Found it on some other forum...

[Sidebinder]

:Holy Crap ......................

[2JSC]

I've seen that image before and there is not way a tree could cut the car in half at the firewall doing 80... he had to be doing more than 100mph.

[KaNaDiAnIcEmAn]

hey i think that rim is salvagable!

[eire1274]

I've seen that image before and there is not way a tree could cut the car in half at the firewall doing 80... he had to be doing more than 100mph.
Nope... if he hit it sideways, that could be done. There is an intentional weak point in the frame for side impact... gets the huge weight from the front from getting pushed back into the car. The Eclipse is made the same way.

Damn, what a mess. It wasn't a turbo car, though, looking at the (rather exposed) motor, so he probably lost it in typical FWD back-end drift on bad pavement. Hope the driver lived.

(note: 3000GT/Stealth, the turbo models [VR-4 or RT/TT designation] also get all-wheel-steering and all-wheel-drive... very different from the non-turbo cars which are all front-wheel-drive)

[tanman_sg]

Ahhh

I can see that AWS would be a plus where less stress would be put on the back wheels, because if overtaking... the back wheels would be int he same direction as the front.

[eire1274]

Ahhh

I can see that AWS would be a plus where less stress would be put on the back wheels, because if overtaking... the back wheels would be int he same direction as the front.
Yeah, Mitsubishi put some real thought into the turbo cars. It's unfortunate, though, that they so close-engineered things; that's what really killed the VR-4 from becoming a racing car, because making modifications is a million times harder than doing it on a Skyline or a Supra. I'm going through the hardest build in 20 years of car modification (well... 14 years if you count the point where I started driving them :spin) to get mine going; but, truthfully, I wanted the 3000GT for one reason: it's a fast plus comfortable car, really a pleasurable drive that can go fast as a bonus.

I won't say, BTW, that this is the first 3000GT I've seen wrecked. Omaha has had a couple of really bad wrecks. I saw a 6-month-old car (a '99 VR-4, worth major bucks with the modifications that had been done to it) slide off of the road and flip multiple times in the ditch. Omaha is a rather wealthy town, and unfortunately, we end up with irresponsible kids with over-powered cars street racing. Bummer. It's the poor guys like me who are the ones who seem to do it right.

[tanman_sg]

It's the poor guys like me who are the ones who seem to do it right.

I've been saying lately that it's all the morins lowering speed limits...

Pfft 50km/h. (30mph).

Mum got a speeding ticket for doing 62hm/h in this zone, because 50km'h is painfully slow.

But then you have to wonder why it takes thee or four months for the road workers to do a small stretch - Appharently NZ roads are pretty much all crap. Didn't stop dear olf mummy from 100mph though. (160km/h)

[unloadedak]

I drive so slow now.

1 because of around 4 kids at my school dying from car accidents in about 1.5 years
2 gas prices

If you don't wanna be broke or dead follow my footsteps. :banana

[Kindom934]

Ekk...

I remember there was a accident involving one car when they was both was like racing each other. The one of the cars lot control and smashed into a coconut tree on the side and the car itself was litterally broken into two pieces, however, people died in it. I think there was a total of 4 people, 3 of them died in that accident.