You are correct, the physics are basically the same as in a FR car...except that the car will flip ends with very little warning, giving you a very small recovery window.

Remember, disintegration is what we want here, those tiny pieces of car took a lot of the force out of the cockpit and driver and I'm sure the tire wall helped a lot too. That was a LOT of speed; look at how well the chassis/cockpit survived, pretty impressive safety engineering for the driver to survive.

It seems that the session is over with all the low speeds, clapping, and waving. From the other video angle you can see thathose yellow 458 didn't decrease speed when everyone else did and swerved to the right to avoid hitting a slower car.

This isn't real! The world didn't exist before modern Top Gear! Blasphemy!

Kinja is shit, please get rid of it. Third time trying to share this video. Why must you guys add things to this site or completely redesign it and make it worse *every* time?

It looks to me as though that car did EXACTLY what it should have. Massive destructive dissipation of the crash energy through the bodywork, while keeping the survival cell intact. I think that driver owes the engineers in Maranello a drink!

Because of the 911's rear mounted engine, the physics are a bit complicated. Since all the weight is on the rear wheels, they tend to oversteer like crazy. Once it starts spinning, if you take your foot off the gas, swinging momentum will overtake forward momentum and you'll end up backwards faster than you can say…

This is why you look where you're going.

This Viper is toying a Toyota banner. So mad he decided to rip it off the wall and drag it through downtown Long Beach.

If this scooter rider hadn't been wearing a helmet, this would have been a very different video.

Last time I came off at any speed and felt my helmet bouncing off the Tarmac as I was sent unceremoniously flying down the street, one of the first things that went through my mind, after checking my junk was still ok, thank Christ I had a decent full face helmet on and my leather held together. I don't believe…

Changing a tyre? Pah, that's nothing. Couple nights ago I met with a few friends for dinner, and one of them mentioned to me he'd rear-ended someone recently. Being the nice car-guy that I am, as we were leaving I asked him to open the bonnet so I could check for any damage behind the bumper.

Guys. Guys. We need to party there. All of those places. Somebody bring a beach ball and I'll bring the atmosphere and the fun.

This is another one they should bring back : the hood ornament on the 403 (which appart from that was not pretty at all if you ask me).

My car doesn't have a badge, but it does have decals. The font is officially called "German." Oh the irony

This video will be useless to about 25% of the population, when they go to change their tire and discover that the shop that last removed it (be it Joe's Garage or the dealership) torqued the lugs back on to 7,500 ft-lbs...
I've dealt with two cars over the past few months for members of the opposite sex, where there…

The Shelby Cobra doesn't have any Cobra badging. What does that imply?

Lamborghini Miura has the best badge font imo. Evil, Bull themed...

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I thought that 2 was an annotation!