Thread: The End of my D3!

Originally Posted by Briar

Glad you got out of it relatively unscathed. I'm impressed with the state of the vehicle. Parts crumpled that meant to, air bags did their job but I was amazed at the passenger shell looked largely intact with little crushing of the passenger shell.

Why amazed?

I have a photo here somewhere of a D3 in South Africa that had a head on collision with an Audi with a closing speed well over 300km/h.

Occupants of D3 had minimal injuries and exited vehicle themselves. Audi driver was scraped from inside the boot of his vehicle.

They (D3/4) are insanely solid passenger cells.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Why amazed?

I have a photo here somewhere of a D3 in South Africa that had a head on collision with an Audi with a closing speed well over 300km/h.

Occupants of D3 had minimal injuries and exited vehicle themselves. Audi driver was scraped from inside the boot of his vehicle.

They (D3/4) are insanely solid passenger cells.

I'm a simple man Tombie. I'm easily impressed. However, I've not seen any other images of D3/D4 collision results so not as widespread knowledge as others. I'm glad I drive one. Wouldn't mind seeing the pic you have sometime if you can find it.

Originally Posted by Briar

I'm a simple man Tombie. I'm easily impressed. However, I've not seen any other images of D3/D4 collision results so not as widespread knowledge as others. I'm glad I drive one. Wouldn't mind seeing the pic you have sometime if you can find it.

This one?

I was going through cleaning out some pics the other day,so it was easy to find

Tombie may have some more info,on exactly what happened.

Ouch , yep no one can criticise the engineers at LR on that

Originally Posted by Tombie

Why amazed?

I have a photo here somewhere of a D3 in South Africa that had a head on collision with an Audi with a closing speed well over 300km/h.

Occupants of D3 had minimal injuries and exited vehicle themselves. Audi driver was scraped from inside the boot of his vehicle.

They (D3/4) are insanely solid passenger cells.

I also remember seeing a pic where a MASSIVE tree had fallen onto a D3/4 - basically blew the wheels off it, but the body shell was still in tact.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Why amazed?

I have a photo here somewhere of a D3 in South Africa that had a head on collision with an Audi with a closing speed well over 300km/h.

Occupants of D3 had minimal injuries and exited vehicle themselves. Audi driver was scraped from inside the boot of his vehicle.

They (D3/4) are insanely solid passenger cells.

Thanks for affirming what I thought, Reminiscent of single engine Cessna cabins.