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I was travelling for a meeting with a local company this morning. Had to take a kind of 'bypass' dual carriageway with traffic travelling 70-80mph, plus slower trucks. It was raining and very windy, even though the road runs in a cutting. A BMW X5 came past me at about 80-85mph and pulled in front of a big truck in front. I didn't see exactly what happened in the next few seconds but then saw the X5 shoot across the hard shoulder and up the approx 30-degree embankment. Grass and mud flying everywhere. It came to a halt, without having rolled, pointed at about 90-deg to the road. Everyone slowing down to look of course, but since there was no damage I kept going. A very lucky driver I thought. Blow me down if about 10 minutes later he passes me further along the road doing about 85mph..! Well, at least he couldn't be accused of buying a 4x4 and never taking it off road.
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Hehe, you couldn't make it up!
On a different yet somehow similar note, someone my dad knew bought an X5 (company manager who would sometimes need to make a few light off road excursions, like a field, as part of his job).
He willfully took his X5 into a field, but it got stuck and had to be towed out by a farmer. Distinctly unimpressed, he returned it to the dealer within a week of buying it(the day after the incident) and asked for a refund (which he got, and spent on something better)
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Are you sure it was the same X5 - after all, they are all black and all have a number plate beginning "X5)??!!
Phil
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Good to see the standard of BMW driving has improved.
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No doubt he'll blame the suspension damage on speed humps:)
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No doubt he'll blame the suspension damage on speed humps:)
LOL! Nice one.
Funnily enough it was indeed black - but I didn't catch the number plate.
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Can't blame speed humps anymore, they're all going squidgy now apparently.
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Made of some sort of sheer thickening material perhaps - so if you go over them slowly they pretty well disappear; hit them at speed and they're like concrete. Just like when you mix up starch.
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i think he"s a lucky man as most 4x4"s like to go onto their roofs with amazing ease,seems like he hasn"t learnt from his experience and it annoys me that arrogent selfish drivers like him would also wiggle out of a death by dangerous driving rap as well,(alledgedly)
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"He willfully took his X5 into a field, but it got stuck"
Our primary school 'car park' is a field that has been very slippery lately. Most of the parents are wise enough to make alternative arrangements when it's like that, so I was much amused to see our X5-owning outfit struggling to make progress across it recently on her unsuitable road tyres. Another family, with a Suzuki Jimny, were doing fine...
Someone remind me, what are X5's for?
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My son plays lacrosse on a glorified bog. My Focus gets out of the car park easily if I am gentle with the clutch and throttle (and careful where I park), but the lady with the X3 who visited recently had all 4 wheel spinning.
It not what you do, it the way that you do it...
and that what get results!
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On a French motoring TV programme I saw last year they had a beached X5 in a field, all 4 wheels spinning, gradually digging itself a grave, being happily overtaken on the same surface by a 2wd elderly Renault 4. All very amusing.
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Although, to be fair, one of the enduring images of the Silverstone quagmire in 2000 was of a Range Rover being towed out of a muddy field by a tractor.
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Any self respecting BMW driver always has a decent 4x4 in reserve-mainly for them days when rwd ain't good !
Seriously I dislike the whole BMW SUV thing, we have a couple of X5s that come out on our shoot - fur coat no knickers i'm afraid.
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"My son plays lacrosse"
That's very progressive! I didn't know it was still played outside Roedean and Benenden... :-)
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"My son plays lacrosse"
"I didn't know it was still played outside Roedean and Benenden"
never played it myself, but the NW is a hotbed of lacrosse, mens' and women's. My rugby club used to also have lacrosse pitches for a local club. After watching a women's game I decided to stick to rugby - far less violent and less likely to result in injury!!
Phil
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Ooops! not much motoring in the above - except .... I used to drive to rugby club but not drive back, in fact, I half remember hardly being able to walk
Phil
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I heard somewhere that you can buy spray-on mud now, to make your 4x4 look like it's used off road. Is this true, or was I under the affluence of incohol at the time?
If it's true, wish I'd thought of the idea!!
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I heard somewhere that you can buy spray-on mud now....
www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1506...l
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