Three most dangerous cars you have driven...

Military WW II Jeeps, high center, usually not maintained well and young drivers who were not skilled.

1952 MG TD, got T-boned when a PU ran a red light and hit the passenger’s side. Completely crushed in the passenger’s compartment. I would have been seriously injured if the hit was on the driver’s side. Fortunately I had added seat belts so I was not ejected out the drivers side door which has sprung open during the crash.

1954 Corvette. In the morning I drove it sportingly to the beach over Malibu Canyon and back. That evening I was cruising the Sunset Strip and I stopped to turn left and the steering box broke and was unable to complete the turn and had to have the car towed. Had that happened a few hours earlier I would have been at the bottom of the canyon a few hundred feet below the road and not here to joke around on this forum.

 

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1954 Corvette. In the morning I drove it sportingly to the beach over Malibu Canyon and back. That evening I was cruising the Sunset Strip and I stopped to turn left and the steering box broke and was unable to complete the turn and had to have the car towed. Had that happened a few hours earlier I would have been at the bottom of the canyon a few hundred feet below the road and not here to joke around on this forum. [/QUOTE]

Wow, that’s a scary thought.

 

Any car with drum front brakes. Usually also offered with recirculating ball steering and put on cars weighing 4000lbs. Ha! brakes and steering are for the weak!

 

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Wow... That is scary...

 

Yeah never won the lotery but that was certainly my life time lucky day!

 

Pantera- After finishing some work on my boss's Pantera he told me to take it for a drive. I drove it on the same roads I drove my '60 Jag MKII sedan. Scared the daylights out of me. I assumed the Pantera would handle at least as well as the old Jag sedan so I took the road at the same speeds I drove the Jag. NOPE!!! I turned the wheel to deal with a curve in the road and the car just went straight towards a tree that was about 2ft in diameter!! Lifted the throttle, the rear end came around and I managed to avoid the tree and stay on the road. Stopped the car, turned it around and drove back to the shop, barely doing the speed limit. No amount of coaxing could get me into that car again.

 

Maserati 3200 Assetto Corsa , aprox 400bhp all at once when turbos kick in at 2500rpm, Try not to hit it mid corner or your off backwards. A great car though.

 

Sketchiest/ dangerous- 76 Cj5 lifted on 35’s with drum brakes and an 400+hp AMC big block. Sounded awesome, but scrared the crap out of me accelerating, worse when you let off, and then trying to stop was a dice roll.
Cobra replica with a supercharged small block and not nearly enough tire.
Have been in a Mosler 900s that badly needed new tires. Wasn’t driving, which scared me more. Driven a Ford GT, and various Mustangs with way more power than the chassis could handle.
But the scariest is the random cars customers ask me to drive on a daily basis. Bearings, brakes, suspension issues. Tires with more wire exposed than not, it amazes me what people put on the road.

 

Saleen S7 TT - Back in the mid 2000's i called it the fastest piece of sh** i ever driven (I've driven faster cars since then)
Carrera GT - Had a chance to own one, But the one I drove at high speeds on an airport runway twitched at very high speeds. Scared me!!!
#3... um... Maybe a 66 Cobra. I was 16 at the time, I was so amused of the power.

 

I apologize for chiming in again. But imagine controlling 10hp/pound in this car with these pedals!

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Great thread, but from the postings I have surmised that the "danger" really comes down to the proficiency of the driver(s); not the actual car(s).

 

Famous last words.

 

I agree with the (Famous last words) comment

As mentioned, I am not sure of many 4 or 2 wheel vehicles that I have not driven. Any of us could get in any car and drive 5 mph and not have any issues, but that is not the spirit of this thread I started. Being either proficient or better at driving (many of us), there are cars (all that are mentioned for one reason or another), stand us to attention every once in a while - be it unexpected behavior, design of the car, driving characteristics, etc.

This has nothing to do with proficiency of the driver, at times anyway..

 

1) 2005/2006 Ford GT. The sheer number of cars demolished makes me wonder if a design flaw may be a factor. The rear end can break loose with little to no feedback.
2) 1999 Dodge Viper ACR. Horrible brakes that totally failed at Pocono with virtually no warning.
3) M151AC - Top heavy and prone to rollover with the 106mm recoilless rifle mounted.

In each case, there but for the Grace of God go I.

 

I had a 86 , 911 Carrera in 88 .Previously I came from a sublime handing 924 .
How ever I’d done my research about the lift off over steer read all the mag road tests etc , heard all about being chucked backwards through a hedge etc etc .
But I wouldn’t put a 80 ,s air cooled 911 in this thread as they do reward and handle very well if you obey the rule and don’t lift off as the front starts to drift wide if you overcook it on a bend .In fact gently apply just a tad more power as you pass the apex and start to unwind the steering .
You just have to corner in a certain way only , and accept sweaty palm moments .

Is that a reflection of driver ability-? No. just common knowledge.

 

Id say my friend’s 720s... totally controllable but incredibly fast to the point that any mistakes can be costly; I only drove it on the track and it was fine but in the twisties it was scary


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A car that capable, and able to scare the driver into having a healthy respect for its abilities is not a bad car, nor a dangerous one, because it breaths into you the respect for the limits, much like an F40 or any other modern Ferrari, whose limits are way above the ability of the average driver to exceed. Whatever level of driver we are, our strengths come from k owing where our own limits are, and being able to reign it in at the point our ability relies upon blind luck to survive the next move!

 

2010 Lexus ISF. The car is so front nose heavy, it has to be one of the worst balanced cars from factory. It’s just too much engine fitted in a tiny chassis = tons of understeer (worse than a Toyota Camry )


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Agree 100%,I

 

1994 Jeep Wrangler- a veritable Jekyll and Hyde- an off road and bad weather supercar when in 4 wheel drive mode- a slipping sliding tail happy mess in the wet in 2 wheel drive mode


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I hate Jeeps.

 

My 2012 Boss 302 mustang. Had just finished installing a single turbo, dynoed at 868 hp to the wheels in CO, 1062 corrected for sea level. Had a 6 spd at the time. Was driving home on the highway and decided to drop it down to 5th and see what it could do. As it spooled up it broke the tires loose at about 100 mph and I proceeded to nearly clip a semi because it started drifting to the right. Scariest thing I have ever done in a car. The power is ridiculous.

Since has a 3 spd auto, full 8.5 cert for the drag strip and has gone 9.29 in the 1/4 at this altitude with a factory engine. Scariest but also the most rewarding because I did the majority of the work.

 

1. CGT - found it to be incredibly unforgiving and twitchy, clutch was annoying too. driving gods aside needs to be treated with so much respect.
2. 996GT2 - felt like it had a mind of its own, very fast and the back end would come out seemingly randomly whilst driving straight. 2 regular drivers at our track day club had fatal crashes in their gt2s within 6 months after they came out, both were experienced drivers.
3. F150 lightning - just a crazy car all over, might feel different in the states but driving one of these in the UK was wild.