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All I can say is...Wow..Dumb but Wow!

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Old 09-01-08, 06:41 PM
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Is the SC a safe car?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...702075529.html
Old 09-01-08, 06:47 PM
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well he survived....
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Wow... Thats insane. Shows you how well built these cars are.
Old 09-01-08, 06:57 PM
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ouch thats a sorry sight
Old 09-01-08, 07:00 PM
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Hats off to you, Toyota
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built like a tank!

dibs on rear tail light.
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the thing is heavy as hell for a reason....its really safe...
SC>SUV
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DAMN
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painful to watch - but reassuring....
Old 09-01-08, 08:05 PM
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I guess that's why the SC is almost 4000lb's. That's nuts!
Old 09-01-08, 09:12 PM
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those rims look expensive but the driver was all perfectly fine LOL
other then that, that sc looked like it was clean...
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ouch... hate to see that happen
Old 09-01-08, 11:02 PM
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I've totaled both an SC400 and an LS400 in my younger years. In both cases I probably would have been dead had I been driving a Civic like every other teenager.

Sucks, but thank you LEXUS.
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Good find dude. thats why I got rid of my Mitsubishi eclipse.

BTW I have already crash proven the SC myself and the passenger compartment holds up nicely.
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Actually over the 7 years we've been at the new CL website and hundreds of horrific crashes that have been posted, I don't believe we've ever had an owner die in a car wreck with an Sc.

.........and we've had some good wrecks.

We did have one guy that stole a white lexus sc4 (made it on the news) in cali and wrecked the stolen lexus and was killed, but he did not die in the car..... the idiot wasn't strapped in and was ejected....... the tree killed him, not the car.


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