Make a note not to partake of the nitrous oxide until actually arriving at the concert.

Yeah. When pre-gaming before a KISS concert, don't drop acid until you at least get to the parking lot.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Thank God the FBI has their TOP MEN on this. We should have updated information by July.

Let's see:
- confirmed terrorist act............
- nope...nope.....definitely not a terrorist act......
- ummmm car is stolen.........
- nope - two 50-somethings on way to a KISS concert........

Start a lottery on the "next" alibi............

I think one gets a ‘C’ in headwork for owning a Bentley in NY. If so, seems like a vehicle mismatch, unless dripping with $$.

Yeah, who am I to say, saying it anyway.

So we have a 600plus horsepower car that can go 0-60 in under 4 seconds with a history of recalls for accelerators getting stuck driven by a middle aged American couple.

Bentley’s lawyers would like to assure everyone this was definitely terrorists.

On the way to a KISS concert? Maybe they wanted to live out "Detroit Rock City"

What model Bentley? Flying Spur?

Maybe they didn’t want to surrender?
Mommy and daddy are definitely not all right.
They’re done rolling rockin’ rolling.
I’ll get my Kiss records out.

Sorry, cheap trick.

Going out in a $300,000 Bently, 100MPH, full on Duke's of Hazard, savage mode expert!

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Originally posted by bigwagon:
Just tuning into this thing, and it went from 9/11 to the Dukes of Hazzard in less than one page. Glad I didn't waste my time watching the "news."

I quit watching the local news at eleven. I’ve started watching “Adam-12” on one of the nostalgia channels from then until midnight instead. Used to be they only couldn’t get the weather right……

I don’t put a lot of faith in “expert” witnesses such as Ettari. Time will may tell.

“The driver of a Bentley that exploded on Rainbow Bridge earlier this week was 'alert and not impaired' as he desperately slammed on the brakes, according to an expert.

Vincent A. Ettari, a civil engineer, told The New York Times that he believes Kurt Villani was frantically slamming the brakes of his 2022 Flying Spur as it exploded on Wednesday.

Villani and his wife Monica, both 53, had been on their way to a KISS concert when the horror crash took place on Wednesday.

Vittari, who serves as an expert witness on road design in court cases, said that a dark vapor behind the car seen in surveillance footage suggests Villani was not impaired at the time and was aware of what was going on.
……
The couple had been in their $300,000 Bentley at the time and had told friends there was a problem with the accelerator in the weeks before the accident. Bentley is yet to comment on the tragedy. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/12789321

Shifting a runaway car's transmission into neutral and just sacrifice the engine is standard procedure.

Unless the manufacturer did something STUPID by having an electronic coupling to the transmission with no manual override.

If so, Bentley is 100% liable for this.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Shifting a runaway car's transmission into neutral and just sacrifice the engine is standard procedure.

There aren't many people who would have their wits about them to think clearly and quickly enough to do that in the few short seconds you have when your 550 hp car is accelerating to 100 mph at max throttle.

I had an Austin Mini Cooper with a stuck throttle on the Autobahn, knocked it out of gear rolled to the side and killed the engine. But like Mars said with these new cars, electronic transmissions, electronic throttles, electronic push button starters it has got me wondering can you shift out of gear with them or kill the engine if they have a bug in the electrics. I have driven newer cars and I do like the gadgets but have just always kept my older stuff because I like it and can work on it. Now this has got me wondering do they have a way to manually shut them down?

My manual Jeep for the win.

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Originally posted by fischtown7:
Now this has got me wondering do they have a way to manually shut them down?

Jeep changed the way their stupid assed unintuitive shifter works after it killed Anton Yelchin. Jeep should have gone insolvent over this retarded dumbassery. The designer and ANYONE who signed off on that shit should be spending life behind bars.

100% Fiat doing their best to sabotage the American car market just like Renault was openly trying to destroy Nissan.

I think if I had a new car I would end up putting a kill switch in it like a race car, but with all the electronics that might make things even worse.