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Is it me..?

PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 6:16 pm
by Dog_ger
All these cars that are breaking in 1/2 with terrible loss of life are all Japanese models..?

I seldom see a Ford, Holden, or Mitsubishi busted up like a WRX... :shock:

Just trying to create conversation guys.

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 6:19 pm
by Ian
I've seen plenty of Aussie made cars broken in half as well, commodore utes in particullar

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 6:29 pm
by Jimmy_041
Bugger - I've got both

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 6:44 pm
by heater31
Don't think it matters if a vehicle is travelling at a great rate of knots and it hits something it is going to split in two.

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 8:16 pm
by Wedgie
Ive seen just as many Commodores as Jap cars in the news when it comes to high speed deaths, if not more.

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 8:23 pm
by smac
A dickhead who drives like they are invincible can split any car in two.

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 8:37 pm
by JAS
something to bear in mind if it's press/tv pictures of accidents you're looking at is that by the time they're allowed to photograph them the Fire Service have often had to cut people out so a lot of damage is done after the accident and makes it look far worse than it might have been.

Regards
JAS

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 9:13 pm
by Dog_ger
I have never seen a holden or Ford torn apart like that... :shock:

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:38 pm
by Wedgie
Dog_ger wrote:I have never seen a holden or Ford torn apart like that... :shock:

You need to watch the news a bit more, Commodores torn in half (or more pieces) are a regularity mate.

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:42 pm
by Dogwatcher
Ian wrote:I've seen plenty of Aussie made cars broken in half as well, commodore utes in particullar


Very true.

I know you come from the home of Holden Dog-ger but any vehicle that is driven at high speed can be split up like that. Not just Japanese stuff mate.

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PostPosted: Fri May 15, 2009 10:57 pm
by hearts on fire
On the news everyday, i see atleast 2 or 3 incidents involving a Commodore.

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:05 am
by redden whites
hearts on fire wrote:On the news everyday, i see atleast 2 or 3 incidents involving a Commodore.

3 news items every day :? ......garbage.Are you counting the cop cars at a brush fence fire story HOF? :roll:

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:09 am
by Ian
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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:34 am
by hearts on fire
redden whites wrote:
hearts on fire wrote:On the news everyday, i see atleast 2 or 3 incidents involving a Commodore.

3 news items every day :? ......garbage.Are you counting the cop cars at a brush fence fire story HOF? :roll:

I think Ian's pictures tell the story, if you count "all" the news stories from around Australia everyday, 95% of car chases, car crashes etc will involve a commodore. This is common knowledge.

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 12:58 pm
by redden whites
hearts on fire wrote:
redden whites wrote:
hearts on fire wrote:On the news everyday, i see atleast 2 or 3 incidents involving a Commodore.

3 news items every day :? ......garbage.Are you counting the cop cars at a brush fence fire story HOF? :roll:

I think Ian's pictures tell the story, if you count "all" the news stories from around Australia everyday, 95% of car chases, car crashes etc will involve a commodore. This is common knowledge.

95% of all car crashes and high speed chases around Australia involve Commodores :shock: :shock: :lol: Can you post a link to that info please HOF maybe the ABS or Police stats could be a good starting point.Also a link to the commom knowledge website please that should be a pearler too. ;)

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:01 pm
by hearts on fire
redden whites wrote:
hearts on fire wrote:
redden whites wrote:
hearts on fire wrote:On the news everyday, i see atleast 2 or 3 incidents involving a Commodore.

3 news items every day :? ......garbage.Are you counting the cop cars at a brush fence fire story HOF? :roll:

I think Ian's pictures tell the story, if you count "all" the news stories from around Australia everyday, 95% of car chases, car crashes etc will involve a commodore. This is common knowledge.

95% of all car crashes and high speed chases around Australia involve Commodores :shock: :shock: :lol: Can you post a link to that info please HOF maybe the ABS or Police stats could be a good starting point.Also a link to the commom knowledge website please that should be a pearler too. ;)

i have been collecting this information privately for quite sometime, this information is only available to the elite and you are not elite. Sorry, i can not post such statistics.

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:02 pm
by redden whites
Enough said......Thank you come again ;)

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:23 pm
by Psyber
redden whites wrote:..95% of all car crashes and high speed chases around Australia involve Commodores :shock: :shock: :lol: Can you post a link to that info please HOF maybe the ABS or Police stats could be a good starting point.Also a link to the commom knowledge website please that should be a pearler too. ;)
It would be interesting to see figures for the incidence of such crashes expressed as a percentage of the number of each model on the road so that we could see whether there is any evidence particular cars are more often involved in crashes than their distribution in the market would account for.

Mind you one Bugatti Veyron crash would make a big impact on the figures for that model... ;)

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:40 pm
by redden whites
Psyber wrote:
Mind you one Bugatti Veyron crash would make a big impact on the figures for that model... ;)

Cripes Psyber ,I thought they were only matchbox cars...... You telling me they make real models and there is one in Australia ;)

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PostPosted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:45 pm
by Ian
High speed crashes involving Commodores are so common because most of those involve stolen vehicles, High speed crashes from drag racing is a bit more evenley distributed around the more common(commodore etc.), and the high performance makes and models, just depends what the **** owns or is driving at the time