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Crashed Luego at Frankfurt Motorshow
supercat - 13/9/11 at 03:24 PM

Wandering along at Frankfurt Motorshow today and spotted this crashed UK Luego on the Frankfurt Police information stand.

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Bluemoon - 13/9/11 at 03:37 PM

Tree 1 luego 0 ...

Nasty, trees are very bad things to hit in any car..

P ? - 13/9/11 at 03:42 PM

whats the full transalation on the notice board pls

SeaBass - 13/9/11 at 03:44 PM

Love the way the front end hasn't been laid out properly...

Does look like it's had a run in with an Ent.

supercat - 13/9/11 at 03:59 PM

Sorry dont speak German but I think the rough translation is the car was trying to overtake a van (maybe the other way round) and the car came off the road and hit a tree. The driver was taken to hospital.

James

jollygreengiant - 13/9/11 at 04:09 PM

Looks like a british built and registered one, I don't recognise it immediately though. On the plus side, if your interpretation is right, the driver went to hospital so hopefully he is OK.

supercat - 13/9/11 at 04:34 PM

The passenger compartment looks mainly ok except for the drivers footwell which is very squashed.

ashg - 13/9/11 at 05:25 PM

looks fixable

scootz - 13/9/11 at 06:23 PM

MOT'd worse!

Simon - 13/9/11 at 10:24 PM

Typical of the krauts to display a british kit car, given that they wouldn't allow such things in their country.

Why couldn't they have used the german made audi rs whatever that spit into several pieces when it hit a tree.

Ohh, they don't want to upset one of their biggest exporters, but a little known specialist uk manufacturer is fair game.




ATB

Simon

stevegough - 14/9/11 at 06:42 AM

The Luego seems to have fared better for damage than the Audi! Of, course it is difficult to make a comparison really, as there isn't enough info of the two crashes....

Nick DV - 14/9/11 at 08:24 AM

How odd!! I cannot see how that Audi has ended up like that with no damage to the tree. Also look at the marks in the grass, they suggest this happened before said tree! I am no engineer, but the force required to 'split' the car in two - especially an Audi - must have been pretty large and no doubt the driver would not have faired to well! What about the two exhausts, rather neatly laid together!

Cheers, Nick

adithorp - 14/9/11 at 09:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Nick DV
How odd!! I cannot see how that Audi has ended up like that with no damage to the tree...
Cheers, Nick


Thats just because the insurance have been quick off the mark and the damage has already been repaired/filled and undercaoted. Just waiting for the top coat now.

Irony - 14/9/11 at 09:39 AM

Looks to like the Velocity survived the massive impact reasonably well passenger compartment-wise. Must have skidded (judging by the offside rear) and impacted the tree mid engine bay.

My mother asked me (as mothers do) about how safe my Viento is. I simply replied 'about as safe as a motorbike that you can't fall off'.

Daddylonglegs - 14/9/11 at 10:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Nick DV
How odd!! I cannot see how that Audi has ended up like that with no damage to the tree. Also look at the marks in the grass, they suggest this happened before said tree! I am no engineer, but the force required to 'split' the car in two - especially an Audi - must have been pretty large and no doubt the driver would not have faired to well! What about the two exhausts, rather neatly laid together!

Cheers, Nick


Maybe there was another tree there before?

stevegough - 14/9/11 at 03:11 PM

Nah, there was a massive runaway chainsaw coming the other way......

scudderfish - 14/9/11 at 03:45 PM

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Originally posted by stevegough
Nah, there was a massive runaway chainsaw coming the other way......