Watching the programme last night I noticed that Judge Deed had changed his car from Audi S3 to Porsche (or does he have both?)
Anyway..the Black Hats cut the nearside front brake pipe, causing Jo Mills to crash whilst chasing the baddies.
Question - don't most modern cars (especially luxury sports) have a back-up system working on diagonally opposing wheels, allowing the car to brake safely?
...I know, I should get out more..
P.
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And how odd that the warning light only came on when the brakes were applied (and it said 'ABS failure').
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He had an Audi TT on one of the other episodes I watched a few weeks ago. Maybe he has three cars?.
Even old cars have seperate reservoirs for front and rear brakes so cutting the pipe on the front would still leave fully functioning rear brakes. The ABS on the Porsche would also still work.
Even so, one would think that if she was belted in and with all those airbags and the strength of the Porsche chassis she would not have been so seriously hurt. A few scratches and bruises on her as she climbed out wouldn't have made for good TV though.
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Trancer,
You're right, it was an Audi TT, usually driven if I remember, at excessive speed - (practically airborne over some bumps in one episode, as he drove up to Jo's riverside penthouse flat!
P.
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At least we don't go as far as the Americans when it comes to artistic licence in film car crashes. Remember CHiPs, where the slightest bumper touch would result in a multi vehicle fireball?
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CHiPs! Good old Poncherello - the man with too many teeth. As you say Tom, every episode had at least one stranded attractive woman who went out with either Jon or Ponch, 2 crashes involving at least 7 cars and someone breaking the rules getting on the wrong side of Sgt. Getraer.
Great program!
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Adam
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At least they used decent Japanese bikes. HD were in a serious quality trough in those days.
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Got a fabulous piccy of some genuine 80's Jap CHiP bikes parked in a line outside a Denny's where they all piled in for lunch.
They dumped all the hardware and weaponry in the middle of the table while they had the "all the fried chicken you can eat for $2.95"
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I thought exactly the same thing, I'm afraid. Also, she managed to stop OK on her exit from the car park. Even my old Audi checks the hydraulics the first time you touch the pedal...
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996's (and Boxsters) have the radiators in the front. In fact, it you want to be really accurate, Boxtser's have two while Boxtser S's and 996's have three.......
I'll get me coat.
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It's nice to see a chap do well. One minute permed hair and escort Mk2, next minute high court judge, TTs and 911s.
I was pleased that they put all Jo's makeup on in hospital,she looked great, I am sure she could have done better than Michael Winner. ie me.
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My neighbour told me that his bosses wife in her Porche was stopped on the motorway when she was rear ended by a lady solicitor who hadn't seen the stoppage. The lady solicitor was driving a Puegeot 407, which was written off. The Porche suffered £10 000.00 damage, which included £1500.00 for a new back section for the exhaust. The bosses wife did not suffer any injury. I regarded Porches as kiddy cars, am I correct?
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Not sure what you mean by "kiddy".
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Does not have to be that big a frontal impact to write off a reasonably new car these days: 2 new airbags plus trim, new bumber, new wings, new bonnet, new radiator and intercooler, new seatbelt, various other bits just behind bumper . . . plus labour and paint. Soon up to several grand.
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At a guess I'd say the production company could only find a crash damaged Porsche for that scene so rather than wait for a wrecked TT to turn up they filmed that episode with a Porsche.
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"Not sure what you mean by "kiddy"."
Should I have spelled it 'kiddie'? I have imagined the Porche to be a flimsy boy racer.
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Oh, I have no scientific proof to back it up, but from too many hours spent browsing various websites of cars I can't afford, I always got the impression that Porsches were very strong cars chassis wise.
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