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[Yarp]

Such a slow speed minor loss of control, but massive consequences, even in a modern well protected car.

That’s a really well put together video and pretty sobering.

It’s nice to see an 8 series crashes well given the wife and child ferry about in one every day. It shares the carbon core chassis that the 7 series uses and is supposed to be pretty damn strong and that seems clear from the vid.

However, I struggle to believe it crashed like that with all the traction and driver aids turned on. I’ve driven the 840i on cold, wet and greasy roads and it will not let you do that. Even in sport plus it’ll let you slip but still will step in if you get out of line. Anyone who has driven any other reasonably powerful modern BM will have experienced exactly the same. There are a million different settings and configurations you can do in the sport mode settings so it must have been at least full TC off and probably ESP off too. I could be wrong and it may have been bad luck but there’s no way I could get ours to do what that did.

Clearly he wasn’t driving like a dick though, and absolutely didn’t deserve the outcome.

 

[Waitey]

These guys are mint. Build some right stuff from just kind of winging it...

 

[McGherkin]

I'm inclined to agree but the fact he said it was in comfort mode etc makes me think that someone checked. All I can think is that it dropped a wheel into the mud at the edge of the road and that combined with the back end going light over the bump made it snap sideways.

 

[Short Norman]

You still wouldn’t expect a modern car to let go that much, and go that far sideways with all the safety systems still tuned on

 

[McGherkin]

I quite agree. You certainly wouldn't expect it and I reckon most would have binned it.

 

[hopgop1]

That’s a really well put together video and pretty sobering.

It’s nice to see an 8 series crashes well given the wife and child ferry about in one every day. It shares the carbon core chassis that the 7 series uses and is supposed to be pretty damn strong and that seems clear from the vid.

However, I struggle to believe it crashed like that with all the traction and driver aids turned on. I’ve driven the 840i on cold, wet and greasy roads and it will not let you do that. Even in sport plus it’ll let you slip but still will step in if you get out of line. Anyone who has driven any other reasonably powerful modern BM will have experienced exactly the same. There are a million different settings and configurations you can do in the sport mode settings so it must have been at least full TC off and probably ESP off too. I could be wrong and it may have been bad luck but there’s no way I could get ours to do what that did.

Clearly he wasn’t driving like a dick though, and absolutely didn’t deserve the outcome.

Pirelli tyres to blame potentially? I've been scared a few times by how shocking P Zero's are in winter.