At the link below, are pics of a crashed total loss new E60 - BMW 5 Series. The driver reportedly survived.
bimmer.roadfly.org/bmw/forums/e60/forum.php?postid...4
Those of you who enjoy verbally-abusing BMWs and/or Chris Bangle [designer of the E60], will no doubt think this is how all E60s should look like. Those who love BMWs and the new look, may be cheered to know that there is a long advance-order list building up already (or you may be disappointed because you do not like to be put on a waiting list for the new car).
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If the above link fails, try
www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&thread...0
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Ouch! Someone's going to have a headache in the morning!
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Hopefully Beemer Head Office in Munich have finally decided that Chris Bangle`s designs are now destined for the crusher !!
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I urge all Backroomers to visit this link to try to work out what happened. Since the driver survived, it's not ghoulish. Just how did the E60 get where it did?
HJ
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Thanks HJ. The picture of the E60 from the basement indicates that the car penetrated the house outer wall and then went through the floor partly to the basement! It is amazing that the driver survived and the beemer forums will hopefully get information later as to exactly how the crash happened.
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Got it!
It's an episode of Changing Rooms!
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I suppozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry nodded off. 5 Series has this effect on me.
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Perhaps the owners of the house wanted an extra radiator in the basement...;-)
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I suppozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Sorry nodded off. 5 Series has this effect on me.
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and a diesel as well, eh Pug? Your life on the road must be a real tranquilizer right now.
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I can't understand why you're still slagging the 5 series off!! OK it's no good looker, but if the driver survived a crash like that then I'm buying one!!! OK, I'm dreaming about buying one but you know what I mean...;-)
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This accident happened close to Munich at 4am last Saturday morning. The driver is a 20 year old who works part time as a firefighter and had been called out to attend a forest fire. The car seems to have been travelling at quite a rate of knots and left the road on a right hand curve, went straight through the perimeter fencing of a local army base, demolished a wall and came to rest embedded in the central heating boiler room. The driver was cut free by his fire brigade colleagues (it took an hour to free him) and was airlifted to hospital where he is in a critical condition.
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Any rwd car is an anachronism today. Crushing is best for em. :-)
madf
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And crashing as well:-(
madf
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Any car that suffered that amount of damage and the driver survived deserves some credit. Yes the new BMs are ugly but didn't we all hate the E-classs Merc with twin headlights??
Anyway, having gone from RWD to FWD (Merc to Volvo) I'll have RWD any day. For suburban driving, RWD gives you better feel at slower speeds and a superb turning circle. My wife's Mitsu Spacewagon has a worse turing cirle than my partner's Lexus 400.
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"The driver is a 20 year old who works part time as a firefighter and had been called out to attend a forest fire."
Nice car for a 20 year old! What's his day job, I wonder?
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