Quality parking in Antibes!

[jfm]

Perhaps the car driver was a Fairline owner and was distracted by the beautiful sleek lines of the Sunseeker.

The driver, on realising the car was heading for the edge, tactfully swung the steering wheel so as to hit the boat whose involvement in a prang wouldn't bother anyone .
The most prominent beautiful sleek lines that day belonged to the driver herself. I know her and have pottered around town in that Volvo.

 

[jrudge]

Mmm I'm getting slightly suspicious about this latest one. If it was driven into the sea by accident what happened to the driver? And given the fact that the car went in forwards, the driver could hardly have not noticed he/she was about to drive into the sea. If it rolled into the sea on its own, do people really leave cars with no handbrake on and no gear engaged parked on a quay? Yes, I suppose my SWMBO would.

Looks to me like some enterprising local scallywags might have been trying car doors late at night and when they found an unlocked one decided it would be a good idea to take the handbrake off and push it over the edge

andbrake on and no gear engaged parked on a quay? Yes, I suppose my SWMBO would.
Read more at http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?464436-Quality-parking-in-Antibes!#fxr4o7MdLc1iE2Pi.99

I would delete that comment! Your lovely wife would never do such a thing !

 

[DougH]

Women with beautiful sleek lines just get mesmorised when they get sight of a Sunseeker.:encouragement:

Both objects of beauty and desire.

Doh, the penny has dropped. The beautiful sleek Lady is your wife. Lucky man.

 

[Time Out]

I have the same model in the same colour ! It's a unusual colour but the French seem to love them ! Even driven it to that very same spot !

 

[benjenbav]

I have the same model in the same colour ! It's a unusual colour but the French seem to love them ! Even driven it to that very same spot !

I should check the panel gaps round the back doors. But, it looks like it will polish out...

 

[jfm]

In other, but related, news, spies have send me this. Martinez Hotel, Cannes, today. It is a bit late to be looking for the brake pedal, madam. @BJB, ordinarily this would be a car crash, but in view of the fancy schmantzy voiture/hotel combo it might (dimensionally) be a train wreck

 

[MapisM]

Funny picture: suggests that the driver was actually trying to gently park the car inside the hotel lobby! :ambivalence:
No signs of hard braking on the road, and would the car have gone fast(ish), the damage would have been much worse...

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

In other, but related, news, spies have send me this. Martinez Hotel, Cannes, today. It is a bit late to be looking for the brake pedal, madam. @BJB, ordinarily this would be a car crash, but in view of the fancy schmantzy voiture/hotel combo it might (dimensionally) be a train wreck

Does my bum look big in this?

 

[longjohnsilver]

Does my bum look big in this?

Didn't realise you are a cross dresser, Jimmy!

 

[Time Out]

Sadly I don't have the same model as that..... both car and passenger

 

[benjenbav]

In other, but related, news, spies have send me this. Martinez Hotel, Cannes, today. It is a bit late to be looking for the brake pedal, madam. @BJB, ordinarily this would be a car crash, but in view of the fancy schmantzy voiture/hotel combo it might (dimensionally) be a train wreck

Oh dear...

 

[mcanderson]

Here is the Riviera Radio story to supports JFM's photo - The Grand Hyatt Hotel Martinez – The Grand Hyatt Hotel Martinez remains open after a 233,000 euro McLaren MP4 Spider crashed through the front of the building on Wednesday. The driver of the car, a hotel guest, got confused between forward and reverse on the automatic transmission. According to the hotel manager similar incidents happened in 2012 and 2010.

 

[Portofino]

Yup I suspected gearbox "befuddlement"
My wife refuses to drive my F1 box Ferrari for that reason .
There's no central lever /control in the centre consol .Just a few switches and a toggle to pull up and back for R .
It's all controlled by the paddles behind the wheel ,which when turning -lock can add more issues -getting in a muddle of exactly which paddle you think are touching

You can only engage R if you get it in N by pulling the L paddle if in 1 -then pull both L+ R together wait - pause -for a beep
Then pull the toggle -wait for another different sounding beep .
At this piont if it's worked ( sometimes doesn,t ) the R symbol appears on the dash -but if wheel is turned or sun glancing on LCD screen then you will not see that .

The Clutch "point of take up "depends on various algorithms - in race mode or launch eg It's sharper than normal - further befuddlement if accidentally pressed onthe wheel while turning and looking out manoeuvreing ?
So in any close 1/4 turning -basically its a nightmare .

There's no stick with D N R - which would be easy
That's description is Ferrari ,s version -assuming Mclaren similiar -happy to be corrected .

 

[benjenbav]

@jfm: ...but can an actual car crash be a metaphorical car crash?

@Portofino: still perhaps an improvement on the classic Ferrari? Flip six switches in the correct sequence and then wait until you're sure the oil is pumping in order to start: get the sequence wrong and it's an engine-out. Don't even think about second gear for the first ten minutes or it's an engine-out. Drive around normally for a bit and, wait for it...it's another engine-out.

 

[jrudge]

Yup I suspected gearbox "befuddlement"
My wife refuses to drive my F1 box Ferrari for that reason .
There's no central lever /control in the centre consol .Just a few switches and a toggle to pull up and back for R .
It's all controlled by the paddles behind the wheel ,which when turning -lock can add more issues -getting in a muddle of exactly which paddle you think are touching

You can only engage R if you get it in N by pulling the L paddle if in 1 -then pull both L+ R together wait - pause -for a beep
Then pull the toggle -wait for another different sounding beep .
At this piont if it's worked ( sometimes doesn,t ) the R symbol appears on the dash -but if wheel is turned or sun glancing on LCD screen then you will not see that .

The Clutch "point of take up "depends on various algorithms - in race mode or launch eg It's sharper than normal - further befuddlement if accidentally pressed onthe wheel while turning and looking out manoeuvreing ?
So in any close 1/4 turning -basically its a nightmare .

There's no stick with D N R - which would be easy
That's description is Ferrari ,s version -assuming Mclaren similiar -happy to be corrected .

You are not selling this to me!

 

[Portofino]

Yup the older one like a Testarossa flat 12 ,the gearbox is under the crank -share the same heavy (relative to EP90 or what ever a normal g-box uses ) oil as the engine .
So the G box is stiff until this oil warms up.!st to 3rd is quite normal and no biggie if you try to engage 2nd - stick just won,t push into the gate.But normal H pattern with dog leg 1st - so no "befuddlement ".
Most of the 80,s and 90,s stuff were are designed for engine out @ 3 yearly cam belt changes -so no biggie there ,if needs to come out .
Recent Belted modals have a removable cover behind the seats - to access -so engine out days are long gone.
Even newer ones (mid engine and California) have a cam chains now -so no cambelts .
Purist argue they miss the higher the rpm .
With chains and bigger CC the moving parts are heavier -pistons ,crank , valve gear etc .
Belts allow a lower weight and with a smaller CC -you get to 8-9000 prm ----er if you want .
How ever with the advent of ever tightening emissions CO2 NO etc - the direction of travel is away from the top -end screaming motor to more low down torque which along with F1 box -more than make up for any perceived or real -performance loss.
they don,t do stick shift anymore- circa 2008 last one.
Back to the pic Mc Claren although a nice car have been playing catch up with F
Residuals tell the story

 

[Portofino]

You are not selling this to me!

Gets worse
Its the only car -in the operators manual in BOLD RED font it says stuff like
"risk of death and serious injury " if you switch off some of the "nannies" -and get this
only do this on a track not a public road -with words Ferrari deny any liability etc
At service via telemetry they plug it in in and all is down loaded and stored @ Marenello
so they know what you have been up to which gears ,rpm ,setting etc

 

[PEJ]

The driver of the car, a hotel guest, got confused between forward and reverse.
According to the hotel manager similar incidents happened in 2012 and 2010.

Crikey, she has had 6 years to work it out!

 

[henryf]

You could always buy a Porsche.









Henry

 

[wakeup]

Poor lady has got her head jammed in the steering wheel......