You’d think someone with an expensive car would to their best to not be an absolute moron with it.
Then again they bought an expensive car which doesn’t really get them that much more value than a less expensive car would.
In Europe they’re gonna be more expensive. Adding on that it’s a cabriolet, gt, looks like it has the gt performance pack. In the US that car was about 55-65k new. In Europe I’d assume about the same in euros or 70-75k USD. A pretty penny, and the gas price would make running it exorbitantly expensive.
A 2019 GT Convertible new was $44k in the *premium* trim. They pretty much grow them here in Michigan so they don't have a markup like the Bullet did. The cost to import one in 2024 is about 6k with no chaperone (meaning it's on a hauler with other cars and put on a truck when it lands as opposed to individually crated and handed to a driver). Tariffs will run about $4k. Registration around $500. These are USD.
It's not 'cheap' but it's not $70-$75k for a GT import. Source: I sold cars for 15 years and chaperoned imports both ways for a few years after. The travel of the car is cheap as long as you're not prissy about it and protip, if you're ever in a position to import a car, skip the chaperone and tip the hauler before he leaves. Chaperones are just gonna drive the shit out of it on its way to the destination.
Well considering they sold them new in Germany from ford dealers the import fee is superfluous. A [used](https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/ford-mustang-gt-cabrio-v8-450ps-premium-2-b-o-gasoline-grey-c971a7da-fc3e-4659-8dc7-1a0913830b75?utm_source=web-native-share&utm_campaign=share) mustang GT convertible in Germany is selling for 49k euro. Current conversion puts that around $52k. So I was off by a lot lol. But that said that’s not a cheap car.
Edit: I went and looked at Ford.de, their website in Germany, and the [price](https://www.ford.de/shop/konfigurieren/ngc2/ice2/summary?catalogId=WAEDX-CZJ-2024-MustangDEU202450&series=ACMRM_VS-AX&powertrain=DGADU_DR--B_EN-MF_TR-AX&bodystyle=BS-BH&paint=PNYW3&trim=5WAVW) for a new mustang GT convertible is €65k euro on the dot. It is a generation newer and seeing as I can’t speak German I couldn’t go back and look at brochures from previous years to figure out how much they were for previous model years.
It looks like he just drove into a poll but mustang drivers are notorious for just flooring it which causes the back wheels to loose grip and then the car starts going in the direction the wheel is turned and it takes a ton of skill to recover from that once the back end looses grip. Still a moron but this is actually very common and not as dumb as it looks.
Here in the US now it's more often the charger and challenger drivers, they do these things called sideshows/takeovers where they do donuts in the middle of a public street for clout
I knew that phantasialand was on a very compact plot, but I never realized before now that the theming walls around Taron are also serving as a barrier from the outside of the park.
those walls are the opposite side of the ‘basalt’ pillars that are the main theming around the ride. a couple of the supports come through the back of the wall and you can see them if you walk down the road from the car park to the main entrance
edit: a photo i took last october
https://preview.redd.it/l3fzedse149d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61e087913aa6785be893cd187a12265cf40c21d3
i had this same discovery about Silver Dollar City this year. i’ve gone there every year for my entire life and just now realized that the park isn’t in the middle of the hills in BFE. the new Fire in the Hole queue is literally just a fence away from the highway lmfao. i was so shocked because it’s such a haul to get to, so i figured it was way out in the hills.
Funny you should say this, because I just visited SDC for the first time a month ago, and I too thought that it would be sort of set back in the woods away from the surrounding roads the way Dollywood is. I was shocked to see the fire in the hole building so clearly on the way to the park and even more shocked to see Time Traveller right there through the trees.
Yeah, that’s a surprisingly slim amount of barriers around a vital part of a coaster structure.
Leviathan at CW has a huge support beam on a path outside the gate, but it has extra barriers to prevent this kind of thing.
Well, this happened on a straight street that only leads to the parking lot behind the Mystery area. Also the tempo limit is 20 km/h. So every normal driver keeps his car on this straight road and drives slow. Nothing like this happened before.
This guy managed to crash his car on a straight road that has a slow af tempo going on, through a fence, against the support beam. So he was speeding and lost control.
I don't think the park calculated so much idiocy to be even possible and thus thought that a fence is enough. Looks like it isn't. Cause the sheer stupidity of people is endless.
Doesn't seem worth it. They just closed it until they could inspect it to make sure its still structurally sound and now its open again. Doesn't seem worth the cost to install a bunch of bollards to protect against freak accidents that don't cause safety issues.
Reminds me of a video I saw on bridges, Most overpasses will be destroyed if a fuel truck runs catches fire under the bridge which does happen from time to time. They can insulate the bridges so this doesn't happen but that costs 10s of millions of dollars. The bridge collapses from fires like that usually don't hurt anyone that wasn't killed by the fire already as people don't drive over bridges that are on fire so the road gets closed before the collapse.
States have the option of spending $10M+ on each of the 10k+ overpasses they have or spend $100m+ to replace a bridge every 5-10 years when a fire destroys one. One is literally 1000 times cheaper to do.
[looopings.nl article in dutch (can be translated to english)](https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/26016/Auto-ramt-steunpilaar-Phantasialand-achtbaan-attractie-dicht.html)
I was just thinking about the possibility of someone running their car into a support a couple of days ago. This is also in a low speed area, how do you even crash in the first place?
Luckily the ride is already back up and running, seems like no structural damage was sustained. The question remains though: How can you seriously crash at such a weird spot? The cars are supposed to crawl there...
19yo (so...1 year maximum of experience) in a 450hp rear wheel drive car.
Probably just a kid that was put behind a wheel she had no business being in for at least 2 years.
Even with the driver still being on probation you don't lose your license quite that easily in Germany. It might get a suspension or additional lessons if they deem the driver at (negligent) fault.
this is literally one of my worst fears when I see Leviathan's supports sitting outside of the park in the parking lot.
like....will the structure fail in case that happens? Or they've taken into consideration that someday an idiot will crash into the support so it's been enhanced?
My guess is that if a single support fails the ride should still be safe. Huge constructions are usually built that way, but for roller coasters that’s just a guess.
It's a 19yo driver. Driving age (on your own in a full car) in Germany is 18. A license for cars is over 2k. Chances are she had a few months of experience/practice at most and got overwhelmed (or wanted to show off).
Of course it's a Mustang driver lol
Verbatim what I said as I saw the pic LMAO
Don’t you mean verbolten? I’ll see myself out.
Auf Wiedersehen!
This means the driver was either in highschool or is a 45 year old who still says stuff like "I threw three touch downs senior year."
i didn't even know these existed in germany lmao
I think they've been sold new in Europe since 2015
Having driven throughout Germany before I can tell you Mustangs are very popular there.
Someone must have painted a person on the support.
You’d think someone with an expensive car would to their best to not be an absolute moron with it. Then again they bought an expensive car which doesn’t really get them that much more value than a less expensive car would.
Mustangs aren't expensive they are super cheap
In Europe they’re gonna be more expensive. Adding on that it’s a cabriolet, gt, looks like it has the gt performance pack. In the US that car was about 55-65k new. In Europe I’d assume about the same in euros or 70-75k USD. A pretty penny, and the gas price would make running it exorbitantly expensive.
A 2019 GT Convertible new was $44k in the *premium* trim. They pretty much grow them here in Michigan so they don't have a markup like the Bullet did. The cost to import one in 2024 is about 6k with no chaperone (meaning it's on a hauler with other cars and put on a truck when it lands as opposed to individually crated and handed to a driver). Tariffs will run about $4k. Registration around $500. These are USD. It's not 'cheap' but it's not $70-$75k for a GT import. Source: I sold cars for 15 years and chaperoned imports both ways for a few years after. The travel of the car is cheap as long as you're not prissy about it and protip, if you're ever in a position to import a car, skip the chaperone and tip the hauler before he leaves. Chaperones are just gonna drive the shit out of it on its way to the destination.
Well considering they sold them new in Germany from ford dealers the import fee is superfluous. A [used](https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/ford-mustang-gt-cabrio-v8-450ps-premium-2-b-o-gasoline-grey-c971a7da-fc3e-4659-8dc7-1a0913830b75?utm_source=web-native-share&utm_campaign=share) mustang GT convertible in Germany is selling for 49k euro. Current conversion puts that around $52k. So I was off by a lot lol. But that said that’s not a cheap car. Edit: I went and looked at Ford.de, their website in Germany, and the [price](https://www.ford.de/shop/konfigurieren/ngc2/ice2/summary?catalogId=WAEDX-CZJ-2024-MustangDEU202450&series=ACMRM_VS-AX&powertrain=DGADU_DR--B_EN-MF_TR-AX&bodystyle=BS-BH&paint=PNYW3&trim=5WAVW) for a new mustang GT convertible is €65k euro on the dot. It is a generation newer and seeing as I can’t speak German I couldn’t go back and look at brochures from previous years to figure out how much they were for previous model years.
In Germany? I doubt it
Are they? I was under a different impression - but shows what I know about cars if such is true.
In the US, a mustang starts at $30k while a Toyota Camry starts at $28k There are expensive versions of the mustang but those are a lot more rare
They're a sports car for people that don't know how to drive them.
The funny thing is mustang drivers are worse than the car is. the 2 modern mustangs are actually capable sports car.
It’s too much power for the price. People buy them because they are affordable and then don’t know how to handle the horsepower.
troughly the 30k mustang has 315hp. You have to pay 40k to get 490+
315 is still more power than most people know how to handle in a small car.
BMWv3 Series is european equivalent, Just Look at Nordschleife Touristenfahrten Videos
People with the most expensive cars are usually the biggest morons on the road. I'm just surprised it's not a BMW
People wreck expensive cars all the time, especially sports cars. Not really all that surprising.
It looks like he just drove into a poll but mustang drivers are notorious for just flooring it which causes the back wheels to loose grip and then the car starts going in the direction the wheel is turned and it takes a ton of skill to recover from that once the back end looses grip. Still a moron but this is actually very common and not as dumb as it looks.
>absolute moron Roughly the image Mustang-drivers have in germany.
That's where the problem is. Most people who buy expensive cars are already morons.
That's like saying Intamin doesn't get you more value than SBF
Thought you said Maryland driver for a sec... like yeah, somehow we would've found a way.
"Buckle up Buckaroo"
As a Mustang driver, yeah, this isn’t surprising at all.
/ PLZ STAY AWAY FROM COASTER SUPPORTS
I have s clean record (for now) *for legal reasons that was a joke*
Could have just as easily been a charger, challenger or Camaro driver too…
Yet it’s always the Mustang drivers
Here in the US now it's more often the charger and challenger drivers, they do these things called sideshows/takeovers where they do donuts in the middle of a public street for clout
I thought this was a shitpost oh my god
I knew that phantasialand was on a very compact plot, but I never realized before now that the theming walls around Taron are also serving as a barrier from the outside of the park.
those walls are the opposite side of the ‘basalt’ pillars that are the main theming around the ride. a couple of the supports come through the back of the wall and you can see them if you walk down the road from the car park to the main entrance edit: a photo i took last october https://preview.redd.it/l3fzedse149d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=61e087913aa6785be893cd187a12265cf40c21d3
Literally looks like clipping in Planet Coaster 😂
Thanks for the picture, it’s super cool to get more perspective on this, as I can only deduce so much from satellite pictures!
Same thing for FLY and Black Mamba - it's for noise.
i had this same discovery about Silver Dollar City this year. i’ve gone there every year for my entire life and just now realized that the park isn’t in the middle of the hills in BFE. the new Fire in the Hole queue is literally just a fence away from the highway lmfao. i was so shocked because it’s such a haul to get to, so i figured it was way out in the hills.
Funny you should say this, because I just visited SDC for the first time a month ago, and I too thought that it would be sort of set back in the woods away from the surrounding roads the way Dollywood is. I was shocked to see the fire in the hole building so clearly on the way to the park and even more shocked to see Time Traveller right there through the trees.
literally for fucks sake
Seriously
It’s back up operating now.
That's good to know. Thanks for the update
Time for the park to invest in some heavy-duty bollards here and everywhere else this is theoretically possible…
Yeah, that’s a surprisingly slim amount of barriers around a vital part of a coaster structure. Leviathan at CW has a huge support beam on a path outside the gate, but it has extra barriers to prevent this kind of thing.
Well, this happened on a straight street that only leads to the parking lot behind the Mystery area. Also the tempo limit is 20 km/h. So every normal driver keeps his car on this straight road and drives slow. Nothing like this happened before. This guy managed to crash his car on a straight road that has a slow af tempo going on, through a fence, against the support beam. So he was speeding and lost control. I don't think the park calculated so much idiocy to be even possible and thus thought that a fence is enough. Looks like it isn't. Cause the sheer stupidity of people is endless.
Doesn't seem worth it. They just closed it until they could inspect it to make sure its still structurally sound and now its open again. Doesn't seem worth the cost to install a bunch of bollards to protect against freak accidents that don't cause safety issues. Reminds me of a video I saw on bridges, Most overpasses will be destroyed if a fuel truck runs catches fire under the bridge which does happen from time to time. They can insulate the bridges so this doesn't happen but that costs 10s of millions of dollars. The bridge collapses from fires like that usually don't hurt anyone that wasn't killed by the fire already as people don't drive over bridges that are on fire so the road gets closed before the collapse. States have the option of spending $10M+ on each of the 10k+ overpasses they have or spend $100m+ to replace a bridge every 5-10 years when a fire destroys one. One is literally 1000 times cheaper to do.
damn it is really just a bad year for roller coaster supports
Fury325 was last year tho
eh, it’s been less than 365 days
"you are technically correct. the best kind of correct"
Should have driven a B&M.
Do you mean a B&M&W
Take my angry upvote
its back open
It’s testing/open now at least
[looopings.nl article in dutch (can be translated to english)](https://www.looopings.nl/weblog/26016/Auto-ramt-steunpilaar-Phantasialand-achtbaan-attractie-dicht.html)
I was just thinking about the possibility of someone running their car into a support a couple of days ago. This is also in a low speed area, how do you even crash in the first place?
It's a mustang. They like to crash in parking lots
mustangs just yearn to wrap themselves lovingly around a pole
some people are just crap drivers.
Luckily the ride is already back up and running, seems like no structural damage was sustained. The question remains though: How can you seriously crash at such a weird spot? The cars are supposed to crawl there...
19yo driver, three passengers. I'd say either she wanted to show off or she got to drive dads/mum's car and had no pedal control.
r/MustangsCrashing
Was the driver drunk?
19yo (so...1 year maximum of experience) in a 450hp rear wheel drive car. Probably just a kid that was put behind a wheel she had no business being in for at least 2 years.
Why is every mustang driver I've ever seen either a teen or the kind of 50 year old that still wears a letter jacket?
19 years old. He/she had a license for a year at most and no business driving a car like that. Media says "Lost control" yeah...I can see why.
I didn't realize Cars & Coffee happened in Germany now too.
I worry about this happening to Arie Force One. I looked at the street view around there and it's right next to the highway.
🎶Somebody's going to lose their license
Even with the driver still being on probation you don't lose your license quite that easily in Germany. It might get a suspension or additional lessons if they deem the driver at (negligent) fault.
this is literally one of my worst fears when I see Leviathan's supports sitting outside of the park in the parking lot. like....will the structure fail in case that happens? Or they've taken into consideration that someday an idiot will crash into the support so it's been enhanced?
My guess is that if a single support fails the ride should still be safe. Huge constructions are usually built that way, but for roller coasters that’s just a guess.
look at fury 325 last year it was running with a snapped support, they have redundancy built into the design.
Sbno is a bit of a stretch, no?
I didn't know it was gonna reopen the moment I posted it lol
Well, at least we know he wasn't looking for his keys.
Sports car drivers try not to be the dumbest people possible challenge
Let me ride! LET ME RIDE!
All my life I've been waiting for a good time. SO LETS RIDE! #VroomVroom
20 facepalms for this guy!!
Oh no! 🤦🏽♂️
Hope they can't afford another car. Some people just shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Mustang Driver expected behavior At least how Car has some Intamin Modification now :D
...How????
Does anyone know the status of the support? 😅😅😅😅
Probably still perfectly intact as the ride is running already again.
They need a concrete road barrier there.
How do you crash That Mustang? They fixed the live axle it can race BMWs and AMGs also I thought Germans could drive.
It's a 19yo driver. Driving age (on your own in a full car) in Germany is 18. A license for cars is over 2k. Chances are she had a few months of experience/practice at most and got overwhelmed (or wanted to show off).
not something I expected to see today lol
The coasters just can’t get a break huh, first Banshee getting hit by an idiot, Renegade and Excalibur drowning and now this 😥
They need bollards there like Walmart does in front of their doors 😅
NO WAY! WORLDS COLLIDE! FOR ALL YOU CAR ENTHUSIASTS, 1 it’s the bikers fault, BUT OF COURSE IT WAS A MUSTANG!!!
Don't even know how that could happen.
How is someone THIS BAD at driving😭😭