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Tank Vs Car

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  • #2
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Tank Wins

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11645219/British-tank-crushes-German-teenage-learners-car.html

    potd-tank-v-car_3326168b.jpg

    "The car was completely flattened forward of the steering wheel"

    "The tank was not damaged"


    Just wait till Volkswagen get their hands on this... Tank v Polo, Polo wins.


  • #3
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    Just wait till Volkswagen get their hands on this... Tank v Polo, Polo wins.

    Would be an epic ad, and an epic win for VW


  • #4
    Interslice
    Registered Users Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    knucklehead6 wrote: »
    Just wait till Volkswagen get their hands on this... Tank v Polo, Polo wins.


    Funny looking polo ;)

    Ah I see what you mean, make an add where a polo wins. Slow morning!


  • #5
    AndyBoBandy
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Interslice wrote: »
    Funny looking polo ;)

    I think he means the VW marketing dept.

    They would create their own version where the car was a Polo and not an Auris, and the Polo would win!


  • #6
    Stallingrad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭Stallingrad


    Judging by the color of that back door, not the first time that car was in the wars.


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  • #7
    StereoSound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    How did she not see or hear a tank coming before she did this?... Not one tank but a whole column of military vehicle's....

    I'll say no more.


    http://news.sky.com/story/1494560/british-tank-flattens-learner-drivers-car


  • #8
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jimgoose likes this. :cool:


  • #9
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,980 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    StereoSound wrote: »
    How did she not see or hear a tank coming before she did this?... Not one tank but a whole column of military vehicle's....

    I'll say no more.


    http://news.sky.com/story/1494560/british-tank-flattens-learner-drivers-car

    Hard to spot anything when the radio is blaring and your eyes are glued to a phone screen. I'd like to see police confiscating phones during incidents with heavy goods vehicles to identify phone activity.


  • #10
    devwa
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭devwa


    She may be more attentive the next time.

    If it had been a motorbike instead of a tank, story would have been completely different.


  • #11
    keithclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,222 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    That'll buff out ...

    Check out the length of the Skid Marks ... must have been right on top of her when she pulled out.

    polizei-lippe-pol-lip-augustdorf-glueck-im-unglueck

    Also, I don't get what they mean by learner driver....... it's not a learner car.

    Wonder if it was the same guy :P

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2949078/A-lessons-maybe-Tank-belonging-British-Army-driving-school-crashes-house-Germany.html


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  • #12
    bear1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Wonder where they got the 12k repair estimate from? Or do they simply mean the car is a write off...
    Id.love to see the insurance form for the claim :P


  • #13
    deise08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    Id love to get a proper view of the junction from where they pulled out.


  • #14
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    keithclancy wrote: »
    That'll buff out ...

    Check out the length of the Skid Marks ... must have been right on top of her when she pulled out.

    I am not sure a tank would leave skidmarks...if the treads can actually lock up (which I doubt!), they'd be literally ripping the road apart :)

    I guess the marks are actually filler put in to absorb every kind of fluid that shoot out of the car. Think what happens if you flatten a bug...:D


  • #15
    kavanada
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭kavanada


    "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!!"

    Some rubber skid mark from the cars front left.


  • #16
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Aus dem Weg - hier kommt ein Arschloch!


  • #17
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Well it being camouflaged she was unlikely to see it and he must have been tanking it.


  • #18
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    H3llR4iser wrote: »
    I am not sure a tank would leave skidmarks...if the treads can actually lock up (which I doubt!), they'd be literally ripping the road apart :)

    I guess the marks are actually filler put in to absorb every kind of fluid that shoot out of the car. Think what happens if you flatten a bug...:D

    They'll leave skids marks and tear up certain roads. Emergency stops on tanks are ridiculous. The American Abrams can go from 60mph to 0 in just over 10 feet. That's a 60 ton vehicle. Then again if you find yourself in a mine field you'll need to stop asap.


  • #19
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Odelay


    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf6nmsOmXLA


    Yip, they can stop quick. Wouldn't like to have been in this experiment, not sure if brave or foolish...


  • #20
    RandomAccess
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭RandomAccess


    Just to debunk the skidmarks, the tank and car are actually pointed nose to nose, the turret is traversed to the rear when travelling so as to reduce the front overhang of the Gun.
    Yes, someone has been watching lotsnlotsa tank videos recently!


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