Sorry - no way will a boxster do 180 mph - not even if you chuck it out of a plane at 30,000 feet. At 180 mph it would rip the soft top clean off the car.
I estimate that impact to be around 140 mph at the very highest. More like 120 mph.
This would be awesome if the pics were from the same car. The video is from a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. I should know. I own one. The lower pics are from a Porsche Boxster. The steering wheel is on the right in the video, and the left in the pics. The bird didn’t enter the vehicle in the video, but obviously did in the pictures. The dashboards are different…. Did I make my point?
Just Like The Two Comments Above the video and the pics are different cars for 1 the camera would be covered in guts if you look at the pictures of the seats and the rearview mirror didnt get damaged and in pics its gone
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Mobius said,
June 7, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
Sorry - no way will a boxster do 180 mph - not even if you chuck it out of a plane at 30,000 feet. At 180 mph it would rip the soft top clean off the car.
I estimate that impact to be around 140 mph at the very highest. More like 120 mph.
John said,
June 7, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
This would be awesome if the pics were from the same car. The video is from a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. I should know. I own one. The lower pics are from a Porsche Boxster. The steering wheel is on the right in the video, and the left in the pics. The bird didn’t enter the vehicle in the video, but obviously did in the pictures. The dashboards are different…. Did I make my point?
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June 9, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
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Rodney said,
June 9, 2007 @ 6:07 pm
amazing how the car in the video is righthand-drive, but the boxter in the pics is lefthand-drive…
Just wondering said,
June 9, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
How did the bird strike change the air vents on the dash from rectangular in the video to round in the picture?
Yep People said,
April 3, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Just Like The Two Comments Above the video and the pics are different cars for 1 the camera would be covered in guts if you look at the pictures of the seats and the rearview mirror didnt get damaged and in pics its gone
HoJo said,
April 25, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
It was clearly a joke. The bird in the pics looks like a rooster and roosters can’t fly.