No that is not correct. Carbon fiber breaks it does not bend. That
whole thing was a publicity stunt including the wreck. Rest assured
that it has been repaired and is driving around. Fixing it would not
be cheap, but not $1 million.
Bill
At 02:19 PM 7/31/2008, John T. Blair wrote:
Speaking of that show, anyone know much about carbon fiber?
There was a company in CO that was designing a very strong light
car with something like 14 body panels that were to be glued
together.
They are using carbon fiber for the panels.
There was a movie out, within the last year or so, that feature the
private
collection of the film maker. They were all exotics. After the
movie was
finished, as some sort of a promotion for it, they sponcered
something like
an autocross. One of the actors in the movie was driving a Ferrari
owned
by the file maker. Coming into a turn, the driver looses it and
hits a jersey
wall. It didn't look like too bad a crash and if it had been a
regular car, it
looked like it should have been repairable. But they said it
totaled the
Ferarri - supposedly a $1,000,000 car!
My understand was that the car was carbon fiber, and the shock of
the
impact was transfered through the body and trashed most of the
strucutral
pats of the car.
Now my question is this: Is this correct? If so, I don't see
carbon fiber as
a material for the main body/structural components of a car. This
would
mean that most wrecks were then totals for ther cars. This should
make
insurance go through the ceiling, as if they aren't high enough
already.
John
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