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> r.i.p paul walker :(, not a joke guys
post Dec 1, 2013 - 12:26 AM
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As some of you may know already Paul Walker died in a car crash today. He was the passenger in a Porsche that hit a tree an caught fire.
Wish his family all the best
You'll be missed Brian O'Conner


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post Dec 3, 2013 - 1:00 PM
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I was reading another article yesterday saying how as they were leaving there was a fluid trail, which would've caused the fire. From the pictures you'd think they were going way over 50. Then again there have been other mid-engine cars that just fall apart. There was a Ferrari 458 near me that was wrecked and the sub-frame that holds the engine just fell away from the car. The front of the car was ok, and even the rear of the car looked ok it was just detached. I'm guessing they slid it sideways into a pole or tree, and it just broke apart. It's an occupant safety thing, the car absorbs the damage and falls apart instead of resisting it. So, it may be possible they weren't going that incredibly fast. Though from the pictures I've seen they probably were killed on impact, at least one would hope that was the case, so that'd make you think they were going faster than they should have by a good margin. The only way to really know for sure is to take a few Carrera GT's and crash test them at various speeds to replicate the damage.


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Posts in this topic
- kurt95gt   r.i.p paul walker :(   Dec 1, 2013 - 12:26 AM
- - DST94   A huge icon we all knew.   Dec 1, 2013 - 4:15 AM
- - njccmd2002   Yup. Sad that it had to be so young. Hell be ms...   Dec 1, 2013 - 8:38 AM
- - cheela   I couldn't believe it when I heard. Fast and ...   Dec 1, 2013 - 11:16 AM
- - kurt95gt   Brian died in a Porsche an he wasn't even driv...   Dec 1, 2013 - 11:23 AM
- - Box   I didn't really care for the movies, but he wa...   Dec 1, 2013 - 11:32 AM
- - bnr32celica   What a shame. I owned Integras because of this mo...   Dec 2, 2013 - 6:01 PM
- - Smaay   Its sad that Paul Walker has passed away, however ...   Dec 2, 2013 - 6:18 PM
- - Tigawoods   either they were going way too fast or the carrera...   Dec 3, 2013 - 9:43 AM
- - azian_advanced   i also heard on the radio that there was suspicion...   Dec 3, 2013 - 9:56 AM
- - Tigawoods   honestly all that comes out will be theories and s...   Dec 3, 2013 - 11:10 AM
- - kurt95gt   I'm not saying what they were doing was right....   Dec 3, 2013 - 12:02 PM
- - Box   I was reading another article yesterday saying how...   Dec 3, 2013 - 1:00 PM
- - Julian_Navia   Idk how good this will be for comparison but this ...   Dec 4, 2013 - 1:04 AM
- - kurt95gt   That's a truck with a steel frame an body No...   Dec 4, 2013 - 2:47 PM
- - mgnt232   F&F was the initial inspiration for me to work...   Dec 4, 2013 - 9:06 PM
- - kurt95gt   If it was for him I'd be driving my nova as a ...   Dec 5, 2013 - 1:28 AM
- - Tigawoods   So now there is talk of canceling FF7 before I c...   Dec 5, 2013 - 7:24 AM
|- - Zake   QUOTE (Tigawoods @ Dec 5, 2013 - 6:2...   Dec 5, 2013 - 8:21 PM
- - njccmd2002   they will use cgi graphics maybe..   Dec 5, 2013 - 8:00 PM
|- - Trodai   QUOTE (njccmd2002 @ Dec 5, 2013 - 8...   Dec 6, 2013 - 10:56 AM
|- - RabidTRD   QUOTE (Trodai @ Dec 6, 2013 - 10:56 ...   Dec 9, 2013 - 7:43 PM
- - SwissFerdi   Wherever he is now, I hope he likes the tuna. Safe...   Dec 9, 2013 - 6:07 PM
|- - njccmd2002   QUOTE (SwissFerdi @ Dec 9, 2013 - 5...   Dec 9, 2013 - 8:11 PM
- - manolis   Paul Walker's Reach Out Worldwide   Dec 10, 2013 - 12:50 PM


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