obviously this was a case of the floor-mat getting stuck under the accelerator...
Lexus just had a recall on the same exact problem.
once the vehicle was elevated (on top of the 2 cars), the floor-mat became dislodged, and the driver was able to calmly put it in reverse and proceed about their business.

Luckily no one was injured.

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And to the person who doesn't think BMW's can go off-road, there are many BMW rally cars (mostly in Europe, because Nascar is boring)

The most off-roading this BMW will ever do.

>> ^StukaFox:
"C'mon, Johnny, there's some fookin' Bushmill's at the end of this!"


Can I call hatecrime on this? Pretty please? (sarcasm)

>> ^nibiyabi:
Was there a rally race going on that included publicly-available roads that were not blocked off? Is this some extremely amateur event or something?


It's not a publically availably road that isn't blocked off. The roads ARE blocked off. The people in the way are other drivers, who set off at timed intervals as stated above me by sir maxx of mad.

>> ^nibiyabi:
Was there a rally race going on that included publicly-available roads that were not blocked off? Is this some extremely amateur event or something?


Nope, rallies are timed events, they set off at timed intervals, some competitors are much faster and have to overtake as they catch up the ones that left first.


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I still chuckle over that Salvia off-road race...

That's all we need to know pims, all we need to know

Issy, my god I think we're on the umm... fourth episode of season 3 and it's AMAZING! Lost is just surpassing itself in every way too, woohoo bout frickin time.

Ok i'll start you off then if I must.

This was one of the weirdest things to happen. I was young and reckless and completely rebellious and decided one day to jump the train with my friend to London. She knew some fellas up there who would put us up and I briefly knew who they were and had met them so wasn't particularly concerned. We spent the hour and a half there wedged in the loos smoking out of the window and drinking a bottle each of white cider, bleeeech. By the time we got there I was pretty wasted already, and it was a hot day etc. Wandering through London taking buses to get to this mobile phone shop they all worked in together. Eventually they finished up for the day and we went home to her friends place, by this point I had been given a few spliffs on top of the cider and was really not myself at all. Anyway, when we walked into this apartment there was this guy who was all dressed up in overalls painting the place.

Kelly's friend introduced him just as Steve and that he was doin him a favour decorating his place out for him as he'd not long moved there. He was a total hottie and I was drunk and stoned so had clearly lost any inhibitions and was flirting outrageously. As the evening went on he finished up and came in and sat down to eat with us and get drunk. Of course I was being a total slapper, and he seemingly didn't mind at all. Basically we got a bit frisky and all that jazz but when it came down to it (literally) there was no way I was going there his penis was abnormal and by that I mean gigantic! Scared the living shit out of me. Luckily he wasn't a bad guy and just laughed and we fell asleep all being well.

Next day I got made a complete twat of. Somehow the staff at the home I was living in had gotten hold of Kelly's number and rang her Mum who had done a 1471 when Kel phoned her the night before and gave the number to my social worker. So the next morning this guy who's flat we're in gets a very shitty phone call telling him that he had two underage girls who have run away, one in local authority care and that if he didn't take us to a police station so we could get home they would ring the cops and get them arrested. So yeah that was horrible, especially seeing as i'd lied about my age haha. Fucking embarrassing, but I was glad to get out of there after that. We had to wait in the police station until they could get a taxi driver who was willing to drive all the way to London from Bournemouth and then back again. Some stupid red tape funding issues stopped us just getting a taxi from London as it was going to be Social Services paying it, not us outright. Eventually some guy got there, and we fell asleep in the back of the car.

Woke up to find ourselves off road somewhere in the New Forest!! We absolutely shit ourselves, neither of us had a phone. All the lights were off and the driver was passed out in his seat, it was about 2am. We demanded he wake up not trusting him or the situation, it all felt very weird. He tried to tell us he was just needing a nap or he couldn't drive but we both started crying and panicking, so the poor bastard was left with little choice. Finally got home, acted like the little twat I was when they started questioning me about where I had been and what i'd been doing, as if they had no right to worry about me, god I was such a prick sometimes haha.

So I got lumped with paying that whole bill off, took me nearly a year to finish. As far as I was concerned though, it had been a little adventure and something in me when I was young craved independence so much I didn't think twice about doing stupuid stuff. The end of this story was the weirdest part...

This Steve had through his friend told Kelly a few times he wanted to meet up with me again and blah blah. I was never interested, mostly cos unless I was drunk the male species pretty much perplexed me even up until I was about 17! Turned out it was a good job I never went there. About 6 months later I get a phone call from Kelly telling me to turn the fucking tv on NOW. The Cook Report was on, some investigative journo Roger Cook used to go around doing exposes on stuff, he was one of the first people to do a show such as that. And there he was, this Steve. Turned out he wasn't a painter and decorator, he was the owner of a chain of phone shops and he had fraudulently made hundreds and thousands of pounds in stolen and contract phones. Jesus Christ

I'm not sure what the moral of this story is, but I can safely say I've never been as reckless since!

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I had to log in just to upvote this. http://www.videosift.com/talk/The-Scarpar-New-Kind-of-Off-Road-Vehicle Now I'm gone.

It seems the same to me as you would get with a car with really soft suspension. The soft suspension gives you more grip, but it also means very slow weight transfer which makes the handling much worse (slow to react to steering input). I don't know if this really caries over to off-road vehicles though. I guess.

It does look like a similar layout to those off-road racing cars/trucks though, so maybe it is a good thing. I could also imagine that the slow weight transfer could have a tendency to throw you off if you were to hit a bump or something while it's still leaning the wrong way.

Um I think the dirt bike circuit will stay with their 2 wheelers. Think aerial jumps and off roading will go this way ? Hell no. Those little dirt bike rule. Four wheelers? Nope too much expense, people wont buy it.

So what nitche can this fill ? Um nothing...

Hasn't anyone heard of off-roading? Not Hummers or Jeeps, but actual off-roading in actual off-road vehicles? A suitably equipped Land Rover could just about do this, I'm sure plenty of army surplus type stuff can do this fine.

suv stinks. for a film i worked on last summer i got to do alot of off road driving.
jeep commander crdi überland edition: stink.
toyota hiace (sp?) pickup with some larger wheels: could drive anywhere.

it was amazing how this little unassuming toyota could just esily go anywhere, but as soon as the jeep saw mud or a tractor road, it wuold start complaining and whining.

one thing the jeepsuv WAS good at: towing a horse trailer on the highways.

Here's some more if anybody is interested: http://www.videosift.com/video/Formula-Off-Road-Iceland