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Old Sep 3, 2005 | 01:19 PM
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I've had a couple. First I had a blowout on my old continental tires, did a 270 and hit a curb with my back bumper. I got very lucky as I almost went off the side of a bridge. I got pics of the bridge Ill try and find.

Another time i was going round a sweeping turn at wot prolly around 85, and lifted off the throttle while still in the turn...needless to say I got very sideways and almost **** myself!
 
Old Sep 3, 2005 | 01:30 PM
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just yesterday, leaving work early, i got about 2 miles down the road when i noticed a minivan parked on the right hand side of this two lane road. the minivan had his emergency blinkers on, i figured he was broken down, so it came by surprise when all of a sudden he attempts a u-turn right in front of me. i layed on the horn and luckily no one was in the oncoming lane so i managed to escape impact. gotta love the quattro!! it was a narrow miss, damn that minivan driver!
 
Old Sep 4, 2005 | 07:35 AM
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Visiting my grandmother, driving down a street for the first time in about six months. It had undergone the most radical re-routing I have ever seen on a public road. This street always had a huge racing problem because of its nice, smooth curves and no stoplights. Oh, they put a stoplight right at the elbow. First week I had the car, almost lost control and crashed. All the **** in my car flew from one side to the other. Could have been a commercial for the Quattro system.



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Old Sep 4, 2005 | 06:33 PM
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I'm driving my dad's 4Runner back from Copper Mountain with three friends in the back, going about eighty in the left lane, and wondering why this douchebag Saturn is tailgating me. So I'm staring in the review mirror, and fail to notice the 15ft Christmas tree that is laying in the road, stump facing us. My friend riding shotgun just goes, "Josh. Josh. JOSH! FVCK!" I get on the brakes, but I have no out to my right, so I swerve to the left of the tree, basically onto the shoulder, while on the brakes, and swerve back, with a touch of countersteer to make sure the big beast doesn't just roll over. The douche in the Saturn, however, had basically no warning, and in the mirror I watch the Saturn hit that tree stump going probably 75 . The tree was shunted like 30 feet along the highway, the saturn basically lifted its rear wheels under the impact, skidded, and stopped, with its front clip completely annihilated, smoking. I don't know what exactly the outcome was, but we called 911 for the guy, and about five minutes later we saw the emergency caravan coming the other way, an ambulance, a firetruck, two cop cars, etc. I can't believe the Toyota handled that well in that situation. I was on the brakes, jerky steering inputs, going 80 to 85 in a 4000lb SUV whose COG must be four feet off the ground.
We were all quiet for a while, and my friend finally goes, "F uck you."
 
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