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you would think with all the saftey controls and traction controlsin that car, that dropping two wheels off the road would not end like this even at 80mph. he must have got a bit too excited on the steering wheel :teehee:

just cos u can pay for it, doesnt mean u can always drive it :(

Rarely means you can drive it unfortunately :( especially as this happened in an attempt to pass a car doing 80!! :mellow:

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80mph? must have been a very twisty section of autobahn or he was accelerating from a standstill! last time I was driving there people in basic renault clios etc were mostly flat out at well over 100mph and anyone with a porsche or ferrari etc was a blur at somewhere over 220km/h. hell even in my little audi A6 it was a constant 100mph+ with some spurts higher to overtake...

maybe he should give up the ferarri and buy a clio? they seemed to have no problem overtaking at 80mph. in fact I'm not sure what you'd be overtaking at a measly 80mph though as even the trucks there are hauling pretty fast. maybe he was overtaking a pushbike?

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How is it "one of the greatest cars of all time"? When clarkson reviewed it in the italian job it was no where near as precise as the 458, and when he reviewed it in the wet on top gear it looked horrific, bucking about like trying to drift a rotten stock 90s commodore

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