Snagged this from g35driver.com (click on link below for story and details). Interesting that this dealership is literally 5 min from where I live :)

http://g35driver.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1423785

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/04bluer6/wreck3.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/04bluer6/wreck1.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/04bluer6/wreck2.jpg

I am not sure if I saw it in the article, but how fast was this guy going?

Worst that should have happened is that they may have gone on the grass...but as high as they did????

Yeah, I would be wanting a fully loaded G35 pronto.

thats crazy. I hope the buyer gets alot in return for it.

No commission for him..LOL :D

I bet you the test driver only drove FWD vehicles before he tested the G35.

Why were the wipers on? :D

I bet you the test driver only drove FWD vehicles before he tested the G35.

If you read the thread, the salesman was driving the car.

ehhh... he swerved to avoid a car on his lane eh... Me thinks that long road behind him was tempting and he took the right turn too fast.

If you know the guy, lexusK8, and he wants to know what a G35 coupe is like, either PM me or respond on this thread and I'LL review and test-drive a G35 coupe here myself in the D.C. area, post my report on CAR CHAT .......and keep the car in ONE piece.

wow, that's too bad, he's gonna get some serious talk. that must be some speed, he went up so high..... poor car....

wow, that's too bad, he's gonna get some serious talk. .

Talk, unforunately, won't fix that car. And the dealership has lost a lot of money on that car even after it IS repaired.....it can't be sold as a factory-new car anymore because of the accident. The car will have that on its CARFAX record....and essentially go for a used-car price.

they will prob replace the bumper, and fix whatever was damaged, and sell brand new. It is not common for cars delivered to be damaged, and just get new covers, or dings removed. I am surprised it wasn't worse.

they will prob replace the bumper, and fix whatever was damaged, and sell brand new. It is not common for cars delivered to be damaged, and just get new covers, or dings removed. I am surprised it wasn't worse.

I agree...with a delivered car right off the transporter, and with very minor damage, but this car was being test-driven after delivery to the dealership and had an accident on the road. That probably is another matter.

"I think I'll pass on this one, but thanks anyway.":)

I agree...with a delivered car right off the transporter, and with very minor damage, but this car was being test-driven after delivery to the dealership and had an accident on the road. That probably is another matter.
actually there are "new" cars coming in at the port and right there they get a blown engine already. what they do is just put on another new engine and call it a new car. i think the bottom line is if the car hasn't assigned a owner yet it can still be sold as "new"?

actually there are "new" cars coming in at the port and right there they get a blown engine already. what they do is just put on another new engine and call it a new car. i think the bottom line is if the car hasn't assigned a owner yet it can still be sold as "new"?


I think you are right. As long as it is not titled they can sell it as new. Also, if the dealership doesn't report this to their insurance it probably won't show up in carfax either. My bet is they probably will just tow it to the dealership and fix it themselves and sell it as new (Probably fire the sales guy as well), or maybe just donate the car to a local collage or HS with a body repair class. I know long ago when I worked for a Honda dealership that is what they did with two cars that were damaged during transport. They just donated it to the local community collage and then it bacame a tax write off :D

The laws on this vary, of course, from state to state. You also have what are called " program " cars..cars that are company-owned and driven for a time and never officially titled, but are later sold at reduced prices.

I like the tax-donation idea myself. I myself, in the past, have suggested that local dealerships donate new, virtually new vehicles, or vehicles that have been repaired in the manner you speak of to charity groups that need vehicles to do their work...like companies that come around to your house and pick up things, for example.......so they can take tax write-offs. I don't know how many local dealersips have actually taken the idea and done so. For one thing, they gain only the value of the taxes they would have paid on it, not the value of the whole vehicle.