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Originally Posted by Brzetto
No that other piece of German crap was a GT3. I don't know what it is with Porsche but they design cars that go very fast yet when they wreck the occupants die. Even Ferrari and Nissan have fixed that issue. Jay Leno drove a Carrera GT on a racetrack and ended up nearly dying from it spinning out too easily.
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(I don't know why I am responding to such obvious troll bait, but whatever...)
No car will save its occupants 100% of the time. At the speeds they must have been going to wrap this car around the pole like that, I doubt any car would have saved them. Even if the cockpit were sturdy enough to not deform much, the G-force from impact alone would have killed them (and that still applies if they were in a Ferrari or Nissan). As for Jay Leno? He spun his CGT. I don't see how he "nearly died" though - he didn't hit anything. The car was fine and he was fine. Even if he had hit something, there is very little on a racetrack that would have caused the car to stop as abruptly as the pole did in this crash. Yes, racetrack crashes can be spectacular, but when you hit the barrier, you tend to hit at a glancing angle, which allows a lot more time for you to come to a stop (and tends to be a lot safer for the occupants). In this crash, the car went from extremely high speed to zero in a few feet. That's not survivable in any vehicle currently made.
The thing about Porsches is that they can go very fast, and until recently, they have tended to eschew a lot of the driver aids that many other fast cars have. Anytime someone crashes a car that can go very fast, the consequences tend to be severe. The lack of driver aids in something like the CGT mean that it is easier for an unskilled (or even a very skilled) driver to crash. This combination - a car that is relatively unforgiving and capable of extremely high speeds - lends itself to very spectacular and severe accidents. It's not Porsche's fault, it's the fault of the driver for pushing the car beyond its limits in an environment with no runoff area or safety equipment.