scootz
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 06:38 AM |
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Mr Bean... What Have You Done!?
Oh dear... Rowan has binned his McLaren F1! 
It's Evolution Baby!
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franky
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 06:44 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Oh dear... Rowan has binned his McLaren F1!
Its not the first time, he once parked it under a metro!
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Liam
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 06:45 AM |
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Again??
Over confident from his Top Gear performance? 
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flak monkey
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 06:57 AM |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Liam
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 07:00 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14414889
Oooh! Ouch! Sounds like he's written it off this time 
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balidey
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 07:07 AM |
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Just up the road from me. Anyone want me to drive over there and see if there are any 'bits' of F1 laying about?
Dutch bears have terrible skin due to their clogged paws
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ReMan
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 07:10 AM |
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"I'd like you to call me Knob"!
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mookaloid
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 07:23 AM |
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ah Well, I guess he will just have to out and buy another - ho hum
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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balidey
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 07:26 AM |
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quote:
Paramedics at the scene said his face was hideously disfigured, luckily for him though his only injury was to his shoulder
Dutch bears have terrible skin due to their clogged paws
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eddie99
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 07:43 AM |
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Poor car!
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James
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 08:04 AM |
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I love this car!
Have lusted after one of these since I first saw it on 'Bugs' back in 1994!
With only 67* built there's no call to go taking risks by actually driving them!!! ;-)
*road cars
Really hope it's repairable, but a fire doesn't sound good does it!
I've seen it (when in for a service) in the flesh along with Gordon Murray's (bearing gone in diff) and Phil Collins'
manager's (crashed into the back of a tractor!) when the F1 servicing was briefly done at the main Mclaren factory. Goddamn they're lovely
cars!
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pewe
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 08:38 AM |
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James, I thought they sent out a couple of blokes in a van to service them?
Met one crew years ago in Knightsbridge just after they'd serviced a customer's car.
In the days of mobile comms being in it's infancy they were down-loading data back to Woking for that car and analysing the performance etc.
They told of one customer in Germany who's F1 was plugged in and they thought it had a major problem in that the speedo was reading max quite
frequently.
On contacting the customer he said " Of courze it will - that's why I bought it".
Transpires he was a banker, lived in somewhere like Frankfurt but worked in Bonn (something like 150 miles) so bought the F1 as a means of high speed
commuting - how the other halv live!
Cheers, Pewe 
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 08:53 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by pewe
James, I thought they sent out a couple of blokes in a van to service them?
Met one crew years ago in Knightsbridge just after they'd serviced a customer's car.
In the days of mobile comms being in it's infancy they were down-loading data back to Woking for that car and analysing the performance etc.
They told of one customer in Germany who's F1 was plugged in and they thought it had a major problem in that the speedo was reading max quite
frequently.
On contacting the customer he said " Of courze it will - that's why I bought it".
Transpires he was a banker, lived in somewhere like Frankfurt but worked in Bonn (something like 150 miles) so bought the F1 as a means of high speed
commuting - how the other halv live!
Cheers, Pewe
That's the auto ban system in the north. Having had a locostbuilder drive me across Germany in his big works Audi
at some very high speeds I can say it's quite an experience.
He does some high speeds everyday and he admits traffic is an issue even if it's traveling at 70 in the same direction
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Humbug
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 09:23 AM |
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My son heard "Rowan Atkinson has been in a car accident" on the TV and thought he might have fallen out of an armchair off the top of a
Mini 
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blakep82
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 09:37 AM |
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imagine he crashed into a blue reliant 3 wheeler lol
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PAUL FISHER
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 10:23 AM |
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The usual exaggeration from the media, looks like he just spun off the road into a hedge to me
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3734958/Rowan-Atkinson-in-miracle-escape-from-car-crash.html
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pmc_3
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 03:06 PM |
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Shame if it does get written off as he actually uses the car, on topgear he said he'd covered 35k miles or so in it!
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 03:34 PM |
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I wonder if he lost it in the wet - there was some appalling weather over East Anglia yesterday... torrential rain & thunderstorms.
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Doctor Derek Doctors
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 03:39 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by pmc_3
Shame if it does get written off as he actually uses the car, on topgear he said he'd covered 35k miles or so in it!
There is no way a >£500,000 car is going to get 'written off' is there, even if nearly every single part was replaced it would still
cost less than a replacement F1
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blakep82
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 03:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Doctor Derek Doctors
quote:
Originally posted by pmc_3
Shame if it does get written off as he actually uses the car, on topgear he said he'd covered 35k miles or so in it!
There is no way a >£500,000 car is going to get 'written off' is there, even if nearly every single part was replaced it would still
cost less than a replacement F1
aren't they more like £1m to £1.4m?!
edit: ah i see what you mean now, ANY car worth over £500k
[Edited on 5/8/11 by blakep82]
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afj
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 04:46 PM |
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I work for a local recovery company but we didnt collect the car the other local company got it, any ive had 10+ phone calls from the sun, the star
and itv and bbc trying to find out about what happened. All day ive been saying nothing but towards the end of the day i felt like bullshiting them
and telling them we found all of mr beans porno and drugs in car. But then i realised they would be dumb enough to actualy print it
eerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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JoelP
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 09:04 PM |
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that would have been funny, but probably not worth your job
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steve m
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 09:18 PM |
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Of course, all of this "accident" has nothing to do with the new film, Johnny english, only anounced yesterday
Oh must be my suspicious mind
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slingshot2000
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 09:18 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by franky
quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Oh dear... Rowan has binned his McLaren F1!
Its not the first time, he once parked it under a metro!
Yes, he hit a Metro at a tee-junction in High Etherly, just outside of Bishop Auckland. The figures quoted at the time were
£150 to replace and paint drivers side front wing on Metro
£100,000 to repair damage to F1, whoops
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 5/8/11 at 10:11 PM |
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I think I saw him in it once my reaction was "Brown F1, what a shame"
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