Rich kid crashes Benz, and almost dies. We try to figure out the model.
 

So, what kind of Benz is it?

http://www.news1130.com/files/2015/0...0412-00051.jpg

http://www.news1130.com/files/2015/0...0412-00056.jpg


From the CBC.

FailFish

C63 Edition 507

http://www.revscene.net/forums/65475...hread-488.html

Okay, I feel a bit stupid now. But in my defense there were no pics in that thread.

So what is an Edition 507?

http://images.pistonheads.com/nimg/28791/C63_507_09.jpg

ugh, such a waste.....

poor passengers.. always get it the worse.

:facepalm:

Kids these days still show off by speeding?

:facepalm: :facepalm:

Hope the passenger is recovers quickly...

Bad Mercedes Crashes in Kerrisdale, Teens badly hurt
 

Teen badly hurt when car crashes in Kerrisdale, sits unnoticed for nearly an hour

So many things I want to say about this, but I will just keep my mouth shut and stick to what has been reported so far. According to a local Chinese newspaper (Ming Pao), the Mercedes was reportedly "airborne" and slammed against some trees. The speedometer has also been shown to remain stuck at almost 180km/h. This is the link from Ming Pao:

撞樹反肚 溫西兩炮彈飛車
司機均年輕 17歲乘客危殆 - Ming Pao Canada Vancouver Chinese Newspaper

There are pictures in both the Vancouver Sun and Ming Pao link, and they aren't pretty.

So true...
The CBC says that the passenger was female and is in critical condition. That is a pair of families who are going through hell right now. But that said, who the fuck is paying for this car?

Give any of us at 18, a 507 hp car that is known for cooking rear tires, and RS would be a much smaller place right now.

RIP to a limited edition. Hope that is all that is lost in this crash.

well i guess ill be the first to say it. they're lucky they aren't dead. they may have crashed at 180 but they were going faster before losing control. i see this almost all the time with young kids driving these new fast ass car. they don't drive them responsibly and at the end of they day, their parents will buy them another M or AMG car.

i remember my first car having 280 ish hp and i wrecked that in two months. the day i tasted 700+hp was the day i learned to drive safe. 17/18 is too damn young for cars like these. they're not mature enough

blame the parents

Parents are 100% to blame. Fucking irresponsible. For fucks sake man. No words to explain how hearing shit like this makes me feel

I recognize that 507.....


The kid tailed me.. proceeds to pull up right beside my evo and peels it at the stop light... well over 100km/h hitting north bound from marine all the way to 49th...

maybe its the same kid

bmw and merc still amaze me.

you'll live.

i had the same thing happen to me. i feel like its the same kid.

kids? i have a cousin who drives like a complete lunatic in his type s TL and he's 28. guy thinks he owns the fucking road or something..

how many threads do we need about this?

i hear all the time "driver never dies"

there are exceptions, but damn, their poor families

The thing that sucks most of all, is when one of these fucks hit anyone who's not in a 100k new car with top of the line safety features, they live, and the dude in his civic heading to work driving the speed limit is splattered on their hood while his car is in 2 pieces 150 meters away. I REALLY believe that there should be special programs and licensing for cars that have over 300hp (or somewhere around there, someone who does research can determine what is safe.) These cars take such an insanely short time before a stupid decision can go from fender bender to gruesome multiple fatality territory. A time far too short for an uneducated brain to process the consequences.

I agree. After reading the news report and seeing that pile of scrap metal, it just boggles my mind that these 2 kids are not dead.

Was there another thread already? I did a quick check before posting, but I didn't see it.

They were not noticed for an hour? I thought the once the airbag deploys, the car automatically sends an SOS to emergency services?

Also, kids shouldn't be driving such powerful cars in the first place. I don't think "the kid was just a passenger" either. Often times it's the passengers that egg the driver on to do such reckless stunts.

phew. my car is rated at "280ps" from the factory :troll:

On a serious note, anyone behind the wheel of no matter how many horsepowers, two or four wheels is basically driving a death machine in the wrong hands. I think it would call for stricter licensing tests and practices.

That's what they used to think in Japan.

They had 280hp restriction due to saferty concern. Interesting enough, that rule only applied to Japanese domestic vehicles. So American/European car got away with it.

After extensive research, they found out that horsepower had NOTHING to do with accident rate.

Just because you drive a 250hp Silvia or MR2, doesn't mean you are safer than 450hp Maserati or Aston Martin.

Didn't that happen a year or so ago? It definitely local, and was also a Mercedes who was ripping it on a bridge and rear ended an older Honda who was doing the speed limit (I believe it was a Del Sol or similar)...

...needless to say, the Honda occupant(s?) died and the Mercedes driver walked away with minor injuries.

Unfortunately there's no stopping things like this, even if the gov't somehow banned the registration of high-powered cars to people without special licensing/GLP requirements, there will still be the problem of 1-2 ton lifted pickups driven by the same demographics (that is, young, male, and stupid) of people who IMO pose an even greater threat.

EDIT: Nevermind, found it (http://bc.ctvnews.ca/1-dead-1-detain...rash-1.1940121)

Unfortunately that is true.
I knew a guy who would buy POS hondas back in the day because he knew he was going to crash them at some point in time. I rode with him once, and that was the last time. Weaving through traffic, 110km in a 50 zone, etc. Idiots will crash regardless of what they drive. But buddy in the Civic never killed anyone, because he could never go 180kmh in his cars.

The thing that hp gives the unskilled driver is the ability to move far faster than they should be moving, in a very short amount of time.

Yeah that was the example I was alluding to, without using it directly. The difference is, with the truck argument, a brodozer truck is nowhere near as catastrophic as the impact caused by speed, nor is it as common as the high powered luxury cars. The high school physics is escaping me, but when we are talking about applied force, speed is a greater factor. Also, although many dumb fucks drive those trucks, those few extra seconds that it takes to get to a ridiculous rate of speed is sometimes enough time for the brain to play out a scenario in the persons mind of the consequences.

Thats the biggest point in my argument. Shit can go sideways so much faster than the brain can process in these high horsepower cars. Ever ridden in a GTR, or a turbo S or any of these other acceleration monsters? You literally blink and you are going 100. Sneeze and all of a sudden you are going 180. Its fucking insanity.

The 507 is no slouch. just has problems putting the power down. that 6.2 is a gem.