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Crash: Audi RS6 Avant Cut in Two

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Photos of an Audi RS6 Avant involved in a single-car crash. We don't know how the driver managed to destroy his car this completely, but as you'll see, he did walk away from the fallen Audi.

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15 Comments

rick8365 says:

10:09 AM, 05/15/09

OUCH! .... or, I guess not?!?

flicmod says:

10:14 AM, 05/15/09

Two things:

1) The tires marks in the one picture seem to indicate that he hit a tree. But there's no other way of saying this is true other than that.

2) The fact that this was in Europe and also that hardly any of the roads (especially rural ones) there have shoulders, I'd be lead to believe that American highway standards are superior.

benson2175 says:

10:30 AM, 05/15/09

He didn't have to open the door to exit.

billt9 says:

11:04 AM, 05/15/09

huh. huh. whoa. like, my passenger seat is gone. Should have brought my ex-wife for the ride.

altimadude00 says:

11:22 AM, 05/15/09

That's one way to improve rear legroom.

People are beside themselves in awe....and so is the car.

It's cool that the driver was unharmed.

dedalus says:

01:24 PM, 05/15/09

Wonder how the driver would've felt if he had any passengers. He managed to save himself, but they'd all be GONE goodbye. Amazing. Even more amazing is how that tree survived intact.

rick8365 says:

01:51 PM, 05/15/09

I think the tree in the pic (with white band) has to be the last one the car hit. I imagine the tree or thing that did most of this damage didn't fair as well.

compliance says:

02:24 PM, 05/15/09

I had always heard the RS6 Avant was a car with a split personality.

estreka says:

03:37 PM, 05/15/09

I doubt it looked as bad as it does now. Keep in mind, they probably used the jaws of life to cut away much of the roof section. The roof is cut off far too cleanly to be from anything else.

cah11705 says:

05:22 PM, 05/15/09

pretty amazing how just the drivers area survived almost perfectly intact. Thank God he didn't have passengers. And i never realized how much wiring ran through the center console!

redliner says:

08:08 PM, 05/15/09

gcn says:

09:35 PM, 05/15/09

Took you long enough to find this! It's over two years old - March 2007!

equ says:

07:21 PM, 05/16/09

Seriously, this has been on wreckedexotics.com for years.. Is it post-worthy?

wy_vern says:

10:53 PM, 05/17/09

Let me summarize the article. The Audi hit the tree, Audi turned in many circles (I guess) and then split to 2 Audis, The tree didn't even move (u can see the photos, it says here I'm). Why Audi don't make cars from trees? They should fire their engineers and hire carpenters instead.

arenddearend says:

07:39 PM, 11/14/09

Clearly flicmod never actually visited Europe. As a European driver in the US I can tell you that highways in Europe are race tracks compared to the narrow, pot-holed interstates and state highways (at least the ones I've seen in the Northeast and Georgia so far)

My theory for why everybody in the US drives like my grandmother has always been that the roads are so bad they're afraid to loose a tire and so narrow they might hit the concrete divider if they sneeze or something...

The road on the picture looks like a rural road to me (the kind that you would be supposed to drive 40 - 45 mph on) not a highway.

Oh well - re-reading I see I am reacting to a months-old posting... never mind.

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