Its almost like its not possible. The Enzo and other supercar crashes, the ones that are bad how can the car get it to such damage. I had no idea a car could look like that after a crash. Heres an example:

http://www.marax.at/funpix/porsche_mega_crash_11.jpg

Beats me dude. Every exotic car crash I've seen looks SO much worse than a crash with a normal car. They look completely smashed up, torn to pieces, ripped up... Isn't carbon fiber supposed to be "5 times stronger" than steel? Hmm...

Beats me dude. Every exotic car crash I've seen looks SO much worse than a crash with a normal car. They look completely smashed up, torn to pieces, ripped up... Isn't carbon fiber supposed to be "5 times stronger" than steel? Hmm...

i agree. By hitting a tree which ends up to most of them, how does the entire front end of the car look like it hit a steel wall

Some cars shapes are meant to disintergrate into weird shapes, like the SLR, that's meant to go into a weird shape, for the safety of the two drivers.

Its almost like its not possible. The Enzo and other supercar crashes, the ones that are bad how can the car get it to such damage. I had no idea a car could look like that after a crash. Heres an example:

http://www.marax.at/funpix/porsche_mega_crash_11.jpg


^^is that sugar on the floor?

since they are supercars, theyre probably driven at high speeds during the crash, which is why they end up crashing in the first place.... plenty of things can happen when your going at a high speed.

Most cars, including supercars, Are designed to do that. You have to understand several things that are going on first. The inertia the car has when it hits something, the size and weight of the car, and the speed.

If a car is going faster, generally, it will cause more damage to what it hits and the car itself. When a car hits something, inertia takes over. Basically, when you try to stop something, everything else still wants to go forward at a constant velocity. That's why we break gradually not immediately. When a car hits a wall, it is designed to crumple as much as up to the cockpit, to absorb as much as the force of the inertia that the car has. Basically, the car becomes the brakes. If, for example, you hit a wall, and your car was so solid it just stopped, you would still want to keep moving. If you were securely harnessed, the rest of your body would want to keep moving, so your brain would crash into the front of your head, and something simliar would happen to you as Richard Hammond, or worse.

The size and weight of the car are important factors, but don't necessarily help you unless it's exaggerated I.e. a truck. A 4x4 is generally not safer than a family saloon. However, if a car is heavier, it has a larger inertia, and could possibly carry itself through the object it hits, but if it can't, its worse for you, because the G forces will be higher.

Fortunately, Supercars, some, tend towards safety crumpiling, and are light. So the inertia is not huge, and a lot of the force is absorbed. The Enzo is a brilliant example. It basically snaps away from the Engine.

Carbon Fibre is 5 times stronger that steel, but tends to be more brittle, so snaps easier. But that can be good for safety, as it just disintergrates, however, this is good for stopping your car, as the force involved in the crash is absorbed in destroying the bodywork, hence, you are safe.

Hope that helps you understand a bit better.

what porsche is that btw...looks bad

it depends on the speed and all sorts of stuff, no matter how safe your car is, crashing it into a wall at 200mph will probably result what you wont expect...well, supercars are meant to be like that...i think

the majority of cars these days are designed to crumple in an accident to decrease the force transferred to the passengers

hmm maby they were driving real fast....

It could be that badly damage coz it hay have hit a tree at first, then flipped, then hit the side wall, then hit another car and then it ended up on the side of the road.:D

^^is that sugar on the floor?

since they are supercars, theyre probably driven at high speeds during the crash, which is why they end up crashing in the first place.... plenty of things can happen when your going at a high speed.

Haha that what i though when i first saw it. It could be flour or even worse, powder.:D Maybe the driver was a high Columbian Drug Lord delivering his load to the local drug dealers but crashed on the way.:D

what porsche is that btw...looks bad

It's a 911 Cabriolet, dark gray exterior, tan interior. sadddd

so the car no longer looks like a super car so nobody kicks stuff off it?

Isn't carbon fiber supposed to be "5 times stronger" than steel? Hmm...

stronger but ALOT more brittle

yeah what most of you guys said, the usual sports car/super car crashes are so bad because of

a) speed (usually blazingly fast.. but not all the time)
b) cars made of like reallyreallyreallyreallyreally light material, usually very strong
c) carbonfiber is brittle yes, i mean its a weave reinforced with plastic
d) your a druggie carrying mad amounts of cocaine/heroin in the front bumper of your car ^^

I'm guessing it has to do with the saftey of the car, believe it or not. The more the car gives in a wreck, the more impluse time there is during the actual collision, making it a much less dramatic stop for the driver. They probably design these super cars with the assumption that people are gonna be moving pretty quickly.

F1 principle. When parts fly off a car in a crash, the parts that do fly off absorbed a lot of energy on impact. That's a big reason why there's so much carbon fiber on a car.