Flying Subaru....sort of

[MossRoad]

OK, substitute corn field for mountain and you got Indiana. At least the upper half of the state.

 

[Garandman]

NASIOC.com is the very popular site for WRX/STI (and some Forester XT) owners. Because they are very powerful and not too expensive, they attract a lot of younger drivers.

There are regional chapters and of all of them, there is one with a reputation for particularly bone-headed behavior. SCIC "Southern California Impreza Club."

Subaru rally cars are built by Vermont Sportscar in Williston, VT. Here's how.

 

[Garandman]

That car is new enough that it should have had anti-lock brakes, so unless something failed, the tires shouldn't have locked up.

There is another possibility. If the wheels were turned to the left (which is likely based upon how the car moved) there would have been skid marks left from the tires scrubbing sideways. If you look at the skid mark caused by the left front tire, it's very narrow and the mark from the right front is very heavy. That would be consistent with the wheel turned to the left and more weight on the right front. There doesn't appear to be any fourth skid mark of note from the left rear tire...it would have had the least weight on it in that situation, so the least traction.

Regardless of whether the brakes were locked up, or he didn't counter-steer, it's a total fail as far as driving skills go.

The car has ABS and brake balancing. It my even have Subaru's 4 wheel electronic skid control, called VSC. In my WRX VSC can be turned off, not sure about this one.

This seems to be an entirely typical example where the driver panicked and hit the brakes while turning. The braking caused rear to front weight transfer, creating oversteer. The Forester is a big girl and he also had some L-R weight transfer as the body rolled. So major transient oversteer.

Usually at that point the driver starts looking at where he's going to hit and freezes. "Your eyes lead you to the site of the crash."

BTW it appears the tow truck towed it away with the front wheels on the ground. There is no way to shut AWD off in these cars, so that tow driver just destroyed his center viscous drive.

He now has a 2008....

 

[Garandman]

OK, substitute corn field for mountain and you got Indiana. At least the upper half of the state.

I was curious and looked it up. Most of Indiana is at 800-1,100 ft above sea level. Hoosier Hill is 1,257 feet.

So - more hills than Florida!

 

[aczlan]

BTW it appears the tow truck towed it away with the front wheels on the ground. There is no way to shut AWD off in these cars, so that tow driver just destroyed his center viscous drive.

Nope, the tow truck driver put "dollies" under the front wheels, so all wheels are off the ground. You can see them at 1:59: https://youtu.be/S5NWcdq4Wf4?t=119

Aaron Z

 

[Diamondpilot]

I was curious and looked it up. Most of Indiana is at 800-1,100 ft above sea level. Hoosier Hill is 1,257 feet. So - more hills than Florida!

Drive Southern Indiana. It's totally different where I live now compared to Northern Indiana. We have a hill I travel every day that's a 6% grade for 7 miles.

Chris

 

[MossRoad]

Drive Southern Indiana. It's totally different where I live now compared to Northern Indiana. We have a hill I travel every day that's a 6% grade for 7 miles.

Chris

Southern Indiana is northern Appalachia.... drive faster, I hear banjo music.

But its hardly mountains. More like hills with attitude.

 

[dragoneggs]

Southern Indiana is northern Appalachia.... drive faster, I hear banjo music.

But its hardly mountains. More like hills with attitude.

https://archive.org/details/DuelingBanjos

 

[Diamondpilot]

Southern Indiana is northern Appalachia.... drive faster, I hear banjo music. But its hardly mountains. More like hills with attitude.

I agree. I drive towing all over. This week I'm in SC.

Chris

 

[MossRoad]

https://archive.org/details/DuelingBanjos

In all seriousness, that is still one of my favorite pieces to listen to. I like the version in this scene from Deliverance. What a lot of people don't know is that the original composer was Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. He wasn't credited in the movie and sued. He won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_"Guitar_Boogie"_Smith