Unplanned things that happen to expensive cars

No wing mirrors either and that's a lot of random debris for this sort of supposed crash.

love to see this

Knowing old mate it’s actually not outside the realms of possibility that he’s making these silly toys out of stuff that’s not automotive rated.

bulletproof =/= carproof

Do they have wing mirrors? Would have thought cameras and screens.

They ship as standard with chunky conventional wing mirrors.

The prototype and years of early promotional images didn't have them, which is what an AI will have seen much more of during its training.

This has been going on in the US and Germany for some time (and no doubt in plenty of other places), but I hadn't heard of it in the UK before (except for coming across some kind of car rally in the lower part of Westferry Circus on a couple of nights, but those didn't look much like 'performance' cars):

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/enfield-boy-racing-north-circular-deaths-banned-b1198750.html

It's been going on along that stretch of the A10 for a good few years. Not sure why there, seems to be a combination of the big retail centre car parks and the dual carriageway (although it's a 30mph limit and loads of speed cameras now).

Ah yes, well, why am I not surprised that a dual carriageway is implicated somehow.

I hope it doesn't get as bad as in Germany.

Obviously, in the US they quickly used it as a plot template for Hollywood films ...

Has been happening in the uk since forever surely.

I remember when I worked at Asda like what, twenty years ago (fuck me, I’m old) there was a regular customer who had a sort of tastefully done drift/boyracer style car. It’d regularly be sporting some sort of damage just after the weekend but would always be fixed up by the end of the week ready for, I presumed another meet/race somewhere.

Could be, I have no idea either way. I thought that the sort of illegal 'races' held now were an Internet phenomenon, though. That, and apparently sometimes people engage in 'races' away from the lights if they meet there and see another likely-looking driver. But yes, I don't know what the history is. I mainly posted it because 'performance' cars were said to be involved.

Go out west to Uxbridge, West Drayton, Ruislip or further out towards Staines and there’s a car cruise somewhere nearly every night of the week.
I used to work with lads who regularly partook in them, going back to the mid 1990s and earlier.
Like @M_V says- smashing your body panels and getting it ready for the next one is the price you pay. One lad had a fire breathing Skyline that looked like it was stitched together with zip ties and pop rivets. I don’t think they involve insurance companies if it’s friendly fire.
Not uncommon to have a good car and a beater, depending on the event they’re heading to.
As it was out West you can throw fistfights, cocaine and laughing gas into the mix as well.
I guess Alleycats were just our much cheaper and less disruptive equivalent- backwards circles while drinking a cider are much quieter at least..

I've also noticed 'Urban Rallies'.
Lads in AMG mercs & M series bmws, driving with full acceleration, on the wrong side of urban roads , trying to outpace urban afternoon drivers.
Maybe A40, Polish War Memorial to an M25 junction (17?), in the shortest possible time?

Ruislip

Ruislip? Now why would anyone go to Ruislip?

Oh, hello mespilus. :)

In Essex there is a bit of a stereotype for boyracers and chavved up motors.
out-of-town retail parks ended up installing barriers in the car parks to prevent late night drag racing, both to stop ingress and other static barriers in between rows of parking bays.

Then the problem was pushed to industrial estates, I used to work in a local one and Mondays would be met with litter in the car park and lots of rubber down on the roundabout they drifted around.
They then installed aggressive speed bumps to deter them in the future.

Newsflash

Someone crashed into the Heathcote in Leyton, got out and walked into a house. Just in time for Christmas!

They have placed it pretty perfectly, 18 inches either way could have had a very different outcome

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The suspected driver was being arrested just down the road shortly afterwards. It appears the car crashed because it was really really drunk