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amazon23 said:
To be honest I don't believe you. 220 km/h in the city? 180 to 200 km/h when the crash happened? That's just impossible. You'd be dead by now or more cars would have been involved in a crash like that in a city. And if you really crashed at that kind of speed, the car would be in 1000 pieces. A dealer would not need 10 days to tell you it's totalled. I could tell you that in 2 sec. There's no way a car can survive a 200km/h crash. At that kind of speed there's nothing left.



Amazon,

While I pretty much agree with everything else you wrote, there is no way you can categorically say that a driver cannot survive a crash starting from 220 or 180 km/h without knowing anything about the nature of the crash. If the car was to crash into a concrete bridge or stone wall at those speeds, I would expect your assessment to be right, but - the way I read it - MSB's (??) post mentioned hitting the "pavement", meaning the sidewalk curb.

If there was no hard object like a wall or tree beyond the curb for the car to bounce into, after losing some energy by taking off one or more wheels and maybe tearing out the power unit(leaked oil was also mentioned), it could result in the car's kinetic energy being wiped out "relatively" gradually by breaking the car's "hardware" while it was still moving. That way, the "software" inside the car would not be subjected to such high "g" forces as would otherwise have been the case.

That kind of "accident" can be survivable even from that kind of speed, in the same way as a rollover in a car with a good crash structure can be more survivable than crashing into a hard object. It's the rate of deceleration which generally does the damage, not the speed per se.

In another thread, MSB has mentioned that he might consider buying a GT2 as a replacement for his totalled GT3. I don't think he asked for others' opinions, but - my 2 cents - from my reading of his description of his accident, I really don't think he is ready for a GT2.