Ferrari F430 close Call on test drive

[Cooper]

 

[mrloaf]

Nicely done!

 

[colin84]

HA! That was awesome.

I wouldn't like to be selling high performance cars, on test drives putting your life in a stranger's hands.

 

[pizza85]

Christ! I $hit myself a bit there too

 

[BLS]

Don't think he had time to **** himself!

 

[dannyfawcett]

jesus!!!!! brown trouser moment and a half! ... fair bit of driving to manoeuvre around them both.

 

[Cartunes]

Wowsers, check his trousers. Kudos

 

[G N K]

Quick reaction times there, did the car pull out in front of him or was he just going too quick to begin with.

 

[Woodcutter]

Bet his legs were like jelly after that!

ABS/stability control system definitely saved his ass there!

 

[Deckz]

Soon slowed him down!

 

[Peadar]

Very recently a similar thing happened to me coming out of Larne in an E46 M3 I was bringing back from England.
It was about 3am and the guys who built the roadwork furniture decided it would be a good idea to put a concrete wall in the middle of the road (to create a sharp left-hand turn) with no lighting or reflection on it at all.

The ABS/stability control saved my ass that morning.

 

[stevieturbo]

Bet his legs were like jelly after that!

ABS/stability control system definitely saved his ass there!

Definitely !

Although how the hell did he not see the car long before it became an issue ?

 

[Graham2]

Think it pulled out on him but was obscured from the camera by the rear view mirror.

 

[Peadar]

Definitely !

Although how the hell did he not see the car long before it became an issue ?

Yea looks like it pulled out from a side road & he was going at a decent rate of knots lol

 

[Ruairi83]

The boy in passenger seat is so calm
About what just happened. Holy fudge ... So reaction...

 

[Graham]

Bet his legs were like jelly after that!

ABS/stability control system definitely saved his ass there!

race mode would have been a different outcome alright

 

[stevieturbo]

Think it pulled out on him but was obscured from the camera by the rear view mirror.

Obscured from the camera, but the road is empty and he would have had clear visibility from a long way off of the vehicle at the junction and moving away from the junction. He doesnt even seem to try and brake until right upon it when it is fully in his lane.

Either way, it should be a great advert for Ferrari's stability control stuff, and for plonkers who pull out of junctions without looking.

 

[FM155]

Complimente! No sh1t sherlock..

 

[Graham2]

Obscured from the camera, but the road is empty and he would have had clear visibility from a long way off of the vehicle at the junction and moving away from the junction. He doesnt even seem to try and brake until right upon it when it is fully in his lane.

Either way, it should be a great advert for Ferrari's stability control stuff, and for plonkers who pull out of junctions without looking.

It looks like the other car was parked in the layby on that side of the road, and simply drove off. So I don't think he had the benefit of seeing that a car was potentially going to pull out and to reduce his speed in anticipation.

 

[FM155]

Hard to say but I think the car turns out from the left side of the road because of the position it's in when he passes it. Probably looking left towards the car immediately to their left rather than to the right with the high speed missile coming the other way... Hate to say it but he passed a speed limit sign of some sort and was going too fast to anticipate anything much. Still a good save from him and the stability control system though.

 

[TSPORT]

Nice save, question is - Did the driver of the black car coming the other way swerve into the hedge trying to avoid him lol

Bottom line though, he was going too fast for a public road. (although we have all done it at some point)