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Could have been worse...
Edited by SteelSpark on 29/01/2010 at 17:09
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Those photos look weird, almost computer generated, not sure if it's the lighting or what.
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Why didnt he just buy a hatchback instead of trying to make one?
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Could have been worse... Yes it could have been my car.!!
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Another example why HJ is right about using both feet when manoeuvring an automatic.
Lucky nobody was underneath!
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ive blown that picture right up but still cant see the "made in china" sticker :-(
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Those photos look weird almost computer generated not sure if it's the lighting or what.
Looks to me like it's been taken with a short focal length lens and the image to the edges is distorted slightly but that's quite normal.
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The tonal range looks weird to me, very posterised, maybe just compressed too much at some point in the chain.
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Where's the debris from the rear lights, etc.
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Where's the debris from the rear lights etc.
I'd expect leaking fluids (fuel at least) as well. I'm not 100% convinced the photos are faked but they sure look odd to me.
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How about a 50ft drop in the dark (no street lighting) as happened last night in my area?
www.southportforums.com/forums/showthread.php?thre...8
Fortunately it's land lying lower than the sea and normally houses a considerable amount of water, otherwise the outcome might have been more serious.
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Ouch, that Corsa looked nearly new (pre impact) as well, I like the almost arty shot of the light cluster in the water.
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I'm not entirely convinced it (the Chinese one) isn't faked either. The lighting is weird and it is all so CLEAN! Look at the bottom of that car. Even the "alleyway" is spotless. And as someone said, no leaking fluids, no debris.
JH
Edited by JH on 29/01/2010 at 18:58
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In summary they look like video stills to me from a fancy computer game. I'm not developing an obsession about this (honest!) I just find it intellectually interesting to analyse why they look so unreal.
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"computer game" - yup, well spotted Spam, that is the perfect description for the look.
JH
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OK maybe it is an obsession :-)
Looking at the second photo the two fans on the right hand aircon unit have exactly the same dirt mark on them, the left hand ones are both spotless.
The training shoe visible on the right hand photo is a funny (pointed) shape
It's a quiet evening here at Spamcan towers....
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...and the entire car, apart from the underside of the front valance, but including the running gear, is absolutely spotlessly clean.
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There appears to be some debris on the ground in the first pic.
My size 12s look like that in trainers, but how many Chinese have that size foot?
I agree otherwise.
What about the light that appears to illuminate the car's interior, orange in the first pic, but blue in the second?
Edited by bathtub tom {p} on 29/01/2010 at 20:07
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I think it's the chinese lighting. They don't have climate change propaganda there, and electricity is cheap, so night is like our day. Very little sodium lights, but loads of enormous lotus flower shaped CFLs equivalent to 525-1000W in various shades of white and various colours and the cars have those tacky coloured LEDs you see on ebay in every light. Look at pic 1 the blue puddle light is shining through the door crack.
Edited by Hamsafar on 29/01/2010 at 20:57
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Yeah, I figured the lighting is probably that sort that emits light at one wavelength only, which accounts for some of the unreal nature of the scene, but the clean car underside and consistent dirtmarks on the aircon fans etc. etc. make me highly suspicious.
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Name that Car.
Kia Ceed SW Estate??
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My 2ps worth. Looks genuine to me-you can see some debris on the ground in the first picture. The angle of impact has thrown most of the debris under the car out of sight.
Also the lack of fluids, it hit the ground tail end first from around 20ft-you wouldn't seriously expect to see fluids in this kind of impact would you? No modern car fuel tank would be likely to rupture from such an impact.
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Impossible to say for sure, but I vote genuine. Probably amateur pictures taken with a compact, effectively without flash owing to the range. White balance all over the place due to odd and mixed lighting, and difficult to correct in a jpeg, but looking at the histograms somebody has had a go at improving them. Then of course they've been compressed down to nothing for the web.
The shadow of the car is visible but not that of the person in the alley (who looks blurred probably because of slow shutter speed) but I put that down to the location of the light source.
I'm not up on video games though - is there one called Parking Carnage 3?
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I still think fake for the reasons stated above, plus I really think that blurry person in the second shot should be casting a shadow. The angle the front driver's door is hanging at looks a bit odd as well, plus where's all the bits and pieces that would've fallen out the car when the door was opened, was it really completely empty when pranged? I appreciate fuel tanks are pretty tough, but are they designed for 20ft. vertical drops? No visible leak from rear screenwash either. Oh and the tyres look too clean.
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" is there one called Parking Carnage 3? " Hee hee!. No, but there will be when someone spots your suggestion.
I'd like to try reverse parking a Sherman tank between two Maybachs with a gap 2 feet longer than the tank :-)
JH
Edited by JH on 30/01/2010 at 15:20
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