What kind of car was this?

[gtghm]

Warning Warning Warning... Pictures of an obviously very bad crash.
The pictures are clean/no gore, just car and tree.
However the car and tree are so one that it cause trauma.

[gtghm]

Warning Warning Warning... Pictures of an obviously very bad crash.
The pictures are clean/no gore, just car and tree.
However the car and tree are so one that it cause trauma.

[mcwc]

It's a Ford Escort, the European version.
This happened quite a while ago, about an year ago. Here are a few more pics.

Edit: Added one missing picture

[Nomad]

Holy Christ.

[leishi85]

i will tell you what kind of car it is.

The kind of car i don't want to be in.

[KingFish]

A Nissan Sentra hardtop/convertible with custom rims?

KF

[Guyute]

It's a good thing the car took the brunt of the impact

...thank God for all of that crash-testing :eek2:

The scary thing is that the tree is still relatively intact- how well could that cart have been built? What do they weld with? Hubba Bubba?

[Geeky1]

And now you know why I drive a big ass car. Having 4200lbs of metal between me and the tree puts me at a distinct advantage over a 2500lb Ford. :-x

[mcwc]

I think most makes of cars, if not all makes of cars, would probably end up like that. I have a set of pics of an Audi A3 ripped in half after it slammed into a tree.

The red car is most definitely a Ford with the Ford oval on the steering wheel and its a non North American model by looking at the license plate.

[Geeky1]

I disagree. A bigger car like mine or a large Volvo or whatever would have fared better. It would still have been totaled, but it would have fared better than a tiny little car like that did.

[KingFish]

Note the Yokohama looking "performance" tire in the one picture, kinda ironic. Guess he found the limits of the tires' performance. Also, from my experience with tree/car collisions the tree always wins. Even the "smallish" trees give very little.

KF

[KingFish]

Here are some pics from an accident I worked alongside I-210 in Lake Charles. The Interstate was above the height of the tree. The full sized heavy duty pickup left the roadway, went airborne and struck the tree mid air. It flipped it over and spun it around behind the tree. The tree only had the bark scraped away at the point of impact and was otherwise unfazed.

[mcwc]

I disagree. A bigger car like mine or a large Volvo or whatever would have fared better. It would still have been totaled, but it would have fared better than a tiny little car like that did.
Yeah, I guess so. But it'll still be wrapped around a tree, but not ripped apart :-/ . Still, it's not a good position to be in.

Here's the Audi A3 I posted eariler that crashed in Portugal.
First 5.

[mcwc]

Next 5.

[mcwc]

Last 4.
Look where the engine is from the car! Must have hit the tree very hard.

[Templar]

Uh wow. Wouldn't the engine have to break from the transmission in order to sail from the engine bay, or do transmissions just meet the driveshaft?

[Squill]

*Mental note to self: Dont buy a Ford Escort or Audi A3.*

[Nomad]

I think the proper title for this thread should be what kind of car was this.

[KingFish]

2nd mental note to self: Don't buy Yokohama tires.

KF

[EyesOnly]

Holy crap. :eek:

*Another mental note to self. Don't wrap car around tree.*
Or even better. *Don't get drivers licens*

[Templar]

*Mental note to self: Dont buy a Ford Escort or Audi A3.*

Well, there's the reason there are no damage models in driving sims :x

[mmonnin]

The engine is the heaviest part of the car so it will have a much greater chance of continuing to move than the rest of the car, thus ripping itsself from the frame.

[Guyute]

Note to self- "don't speed in woods"

[RWB]

;D
Pardon my laughing, but I doubt even a heavy duty pickup or even a big 18 wheeler would fare any better than those vehicles did. I'd rather be the tree then the vehicles.

[gtghm]

Those are definately some bad crashes.
Eorupean Escort?, the guy that showed me the pics told me it was a Beemer.
Does look more like an Escort than a beemer I guess.
Still a bad crash thats for sure.

"g"

[Jengo]

omg. did anyone even survive after those crashes? damn.. i wonder how they Unwrapped it from the tree, heh...

damn bad stuff...