WTF: Is it E36's or just their drivers...

[Ferret]

(Any E36 drivers on this board, pls dont take it personally!)

So yeah, slightly shaken/disturbed this evening after getting home.

Seriously, do E36's in the states have as bad a reputation as in the UK? Here they tend to be riced out with a fart can exhaust and rear wing that wouldnt fit under your average multi-storey carpark with some young tit of a ricer driving them.

Sad really cos I think they're a genuinely nice looking car - halfway between the oldschool angry E30/34 and the more modern gens.

Anyway, I digress:

Coming home from a mates place near Swindon on the M4 this afternoon, motorway traffic slams to a halt. Cant see anything on our side of the motorway, come around the corner and jeeezus H christ. What's left of an E36 in the barrier on the other side of the carriageway, totally destroyed. Then we noticed the 3-400 yards of debris behind it before the next nearest bit of stopped traffic, where he's apparently clipped a truck by the look of it.

I have no idea what speed this cretin was doing but he must have been waaaay beyond even stupid limits. See this story wouldnt be so bad if the guy was injured or had killed himself in the crash because there's a kind of darwinism in action - he was out of the wreck apparently uninjured and running around. The guys kid is in a heap 100 yards away from the car with at least a dozen people around him/her and they're trying to get the wife out of the car Got past eventually and heard 15 minutes later on the radio that they'd closed the motorway in both directions due to a fatality.

Sometimes you try not to look, cant help it and then you wish you'd not been so damn stupid.

See I can deal with speed if it's just me in a car or (maybe a stupid statment) someone that knows what they're getting into and doesnt object, but ffs with your wife and kid in the car!? To leave that trail of debris behind the car he must have been at missile cruising speed, I hope he goes to prison for a very long time.

So yeah, bit shaken this evening - off to find a stiff drink...

[Barney Paull-Edwards]

E 36`s do that to people,trouble is they should not be able to get insurance much less breed.

[repenttokyo]

anyone who would drive at an insane speed with their family in the car obviously is not capable of making any responsible decisions.

[CharlesAFerg]

"cheap" BMW
because it is.

I also don't think it's built as well either.
Don't know what was up with that.

I have a friend like this, he's the guy who is like "I WANT A BMW"
A BMW!!!

God, doesn't even care, so he had daddy give him a loan, even though they're dirt poor and he doesn't want to go to college.

As you can tell, I lost respect for this guy - and I'm not just talking behind his back, I have said this all to him and I'll say it again. He needs to get his **** together instead of buying a car he can't afford, let alone making it look and drive like **** by abusing it every which way.


Same as the VW GTI kids, I saw one w/3 other people in the car going 90 on I-5 here in Oregon, just as I was getting onto 217 to get through Tigard to Beaverton... I cna't stand it. It's things like that which motivate me to get into the field of law enforcement...

[Barney Paull-Edwards]

Same in UK, Steer clear of E36`s and old GTI`S, kids. W were far more responsible, wer`nt we? Only excuse is less traffic and slower cars!

[pingu]

Sure we were more responsible, mostly. At school I remember reading something about the youth of the day being lazy and having no respect... but it was written by a Roman a couple of thousand years ago. I wish I could find it again.

[repenttokyo]

damn roman teens and their chariots!

[Denton]

Ehhh...different strokes.

A lot of you would hate the way I drive. I guess I just keep other drivers on their toes.

[Sam-Son]

Ehhh...different strokes.

A lot of you would hate the way I drive. I guess I just keep other drivers on their toes.

+1

[vuyodaddy]

I do 90mph in my e34 once in a while. But I promise I do it [fairly] safely and always signal!

That being said, what happened is unfortunate and accidents do happen, and its really too bad some people decide to do that with their family in the car.