19 year old wrecks 2008 M3
 

Another story of parents with money and their kids:

crazy ****ing night....so my girlfriend had a kickback last night at her house. an hour after i arrive a kid in a brand new 08 m3 shows up...car doesnt even have 1000 miles on it yet...so me and 2 others decide to go for a little ride in it...car was ridiculously loud and fast....so we go up and down a hill a few times to warm the car up...then the genius decides to put it in M mode....he floores it up the hill...****ing fastest **** ever...then he loses control...hopes a curb...car turns sideways...and we end up in someones front yard...everyone walked out though thank god...i think my thumb is broken and i have a bruise on my collar bone from the seat belt. BMW crash system was amazing...i dont know how anyone could survive that we were probably going 60 mph...


http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=593268

Teenagers and 400+ hp machines are not agood mix, regardless of income level.

Side note, that car looks amazing underneath.

Wow! Glad you are okay.
 

Hey, I'm new to the forum. I'm very glad that you are fine. Did all of the airbags deploy? I feel very safe in my X5.:whew:

Gator Girl
North Carolina

Pathetic! When you are 19 you still have so much to learn about everything like for example how to drive. So giving a 400HP car to a teenager is just plain stupid IMO, rich or not. At 18 I crashed my dad's car, Alpha Romeo Alfetta 2l which only picked around 150HP at the time. This was all my fault, I lost traction on a curve while accelerating hard on a wet road and I thought I knew how to drive! I can remember the face of the old man when I told him :-)
So I can imagine with almost 3 times more HP.

He is just reporting the story. ;)

Dang, guys like him are why I pay so much for my car insurance. Just not fair being lumped in the same age brackets as these morons. Only 5 more years.

Pretty cool picks though. Thank god his parents got him something this safe so he didn't kill somebody.

Are you serious? How is this safe? Hope this is sarcasm...

You don't escape death every time, even in a BMW. Remember the story of 5 kids in airborne BMW M5 earlier this year.

If these kids in M3 were doing 90+ it would have been a different story.
Some people like speed but remember
Speed kills.

With great POWER comes great RESPONSIBILITY. Drive Responsibly.

M5 crash pic. All 5 Dead.

http://i32.tinypic.com/9qbfdf.jpg

I'm saying in regards to the safety of the vehicle. Not saying the driver's actions were in any way justified. Imagine if that was an old mustang or a suv or something like that, they'd all be dead. Thank God he didn't end up killing one of his friends.

all I hear is "blah,blah,blah I wish I was 19 again"

I am 19.

wasn't talking about you. was regarding to the typical flaming of young drivers.

Plenty of 50 year olds total these too, yet the media goes nuts when someone who doesn't need pharmaceuticals wrecks one.

fuc$ing idiots! spoiled brats that think they have a clue what a 400plus hp machine can do. give a nineteen year old a vw rabbit or something.

:rofl:

:rolleyes: ... :rofl:

Maine, I haven't done real "pharmaceuticals" since my WindowPane
Acid daze, :D .

Yeah, "mature drivers" wreck cars, high performance or otherwise, but
I think the flashpoint for all these smashed cars by "kids" is that most
of us wonder how the average/above avg. very young man is given
the oppt. to drive cars of that ilk...the temptation to rip it open is
nearly impossible to resist, for many.

No arm wrestle, but I suspect your normal/average younger, less experienced driver
is not quite as skilled or capable or rational, compared to those drivers that have more
miles and time and experience and crash avoidance under their belts.

And, there is obvious resistance to the SilverSpoonGang that seem to get or cop,
the new PCar, FCar, MCar, et al, for a late night spin.
BR,mD

SHOCKING!!!! Posted from e46fanatics.

I saw this on e46 fanatics the other day, it's sad that they ruined that beautiful car being stupid

Question: Is it possible to program the M button to shut down all traction/stability controls?

Yes.

idiotic spoiled brats
their parents bought them a car and look what they do
i worked my a** of 7 hours a day when i was 17 just to buy a damn car, and i took damn good care of it.
look at these guys that dont even know the value of money