How do you flip a car on a straight road??

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This is partly rhetorical and partly a real question but...

How do you flip a Solara on a straight road???

I was stuck in traffic because some idiot did that and if I were smart I would've taken pics with my c phone. Amazingly, this is not the first time I've seen someone flip a car on a straight road. :dunce:

Even watching this I'm baffled... :dopey:

 
Um, not sure in the Solara case, but you can easily flip a car by losing control. Hell, if someone's stupid enough to want to do it, all they'd have to do is reach 100Mph, and start fishtailing the car.
 
*McLaren*
Hell, if someone's stupid enough to want to do it, all they'd have to do is reach 100Mph, and start fishtailing the car.
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Only true for SUVs. Won't work on much of anything with a low center of gravity.
 
MistaX
Only true for SUVs. Won't work on much of anything with a low center of gravity.
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I guess I need a physics lesson. :indiff: I would think driving any car at 120Mph and then swerving rapidly back and forth would lift the rear of the car.
 
Only if it's top heavy, and the weight shift is actually substantial enough to tip the vehicle. You could do that in most any car all day and do nothing but make yourself carsick.

Well, at 120 if you're swerving you're losing grip in the rear and spinning out unless you have some pretty major downforce, but that's not flipping, that's spinning.
 
well maybe if you swerve so that your sliding and the rear goes off the road. It will dig in, catch, then flip.
 
DWA
Even Nascrap cars have problems flipping sometimes... No? :dopey:
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On their own, very rarely, and that's caused by air getting underneath the car at what, 160-180mph, and the car must be sideways.

But you're talking about a Solara doing at most, 80?

No plausible way unless contact with another car, contact with a barrier, or going sideways into dirt.


It's not easy to flip a car, unless you drive an SUV. Then it's easier than you think. A simple left-right swerve at anything over 40mph can be disaster.
 
There was no other car around the accident... The center divider is paved with a concrete barrier about 3ft.? high... Freeway speed limit is 65mph... It was resting perpendicular to the highway and they closed off 2 of the 3 lane because of it...

I've gone about 80 at most in my car partly because that's it's "natural" speedlimiter and partly because I don't want to get pulled over and mostly because I'm not insane to do something that stupid with others around.
 
It's pretty easy if you've got a soft car, a good fish-tail going, and more grip than suspension. I've never driven a Solara, but I'm pretty sure I could flip a Corolla given enough time and practice. In my limited experience, most modern Toyotas have more spring than shock, so it shouldn't be hard to get them started bouncing.

Maybe the guy hit the barrier? They're designed to flip cars over... like pancakes. :dopey:
 
Don't remember seeing any debris and there might have been a little chin damage in the front but I couldn't see the back of the car... No curbs that I can recall. There are storm drains that are flush but I don't think it was in that area and they don't use curbs because of the reason for loss of control I'd imagine.
 
I think i have watched this video before.Its not a Solara,its a Skoda Octavia Station Wagon (or was it a Skoda Superb....i don't know) and no it did not hit a debris or a bump oranything,it just started to accelerate so fast and front right tire hit a part of the gate and flip!I'm not sure how is this possible (but if i was smarter,i would figure it out :dunce: ) but its just plain funny to watch.Can't believe how she manage to flip the car....
 
I've seen a Ford ranger flip right in front of me. He swerved to miss some carpet padding in the lane and began to fish tail, eventually hitting the center concrete barrier that cause the truck to flip over. It was amazing how fast it happened.
 
mnm_bmx
I think i have watched this video before.Its not a Solara,its a Skoda Octavia Station Wagon (or was it a Skoda Superb....i don't know) and no it did not hit a debris or a bump oranything,it just started to accelerate so fast and front right tire hit a part of the gate and flip!I'm not sure how is this possible (but if i was smarter,i would figure it out :dunce: ) but its just plain funny to watch.Can't believe how she manage to flip the car....
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The car did hit a pole there, bent it, then the car sort of ramped up on it and flipped, precisely because of how long and hard she stepped on the gas.

In short, it happened because it was a "she".
 
The Octavia in the video was being driven dreadfully. Did you see how many times the driver jolts the car forward on the way in? My guess is it's someone who's never driven that car before (and has certainly never driven one of the same transmission type).

Solara? Hmm, aren't those based on the Camry? My guess is they're set up for comfort and not for intense driving. Maybe the driver took avoiding action at a stupid speed and hit even a slight bit of debris (maybe there was another crash that the guy was trying to avoid but managed to hit a loose bumper or something).
 
I drove through the area where it happened last night, there's nothing. No gutter, no change in the road surface when it meets the center divider. As for him making a high speed avoiding maneuver no.. It was only him, no other cars. I suppose if it were a hit and run... maybe.
 
Could've had a blowout or something in the suspension failed, causing the car to spear towards the central divider. If you hit the wall at the wrong angle you could probably roll the car. It seems to happen NASCAR fairly often, even at low speeds.
 
Wouldn't it be pretty violent and the car all messed up? I really don't remember the car being too messed up now that I think of it...
 
Were the front wheels still attached and pointing in the right direction? I would've suggested front suspension or steering failure if they weren't - folding the wheel under the car, pushing it into the air and the front just scraping the top of the wall.
 
My guess would be the driver veering off the lane, hitting, or running over an object. While inputting all sorts of wrong steering movement in, I'm sure. :lol:
 
Roo
Were the front wheels still attached and pointing in the right direction?
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I'm pretty sure it was. The front of the car was facing me and even the front bumper was still there not dented in except for maybe a little on the lip.
 
Toyota = bounce.

Zoom... eek! A puppy on the road!

Swerve, swerve, fishtail, fishtail, bounce bounce bounce roll. :lol:
 
Man I really wish I took a pic. Anyway, if it was that situation I could see there being a lot of damage and it would be more obvious. Not to mention I doubt it would've landed upside down.
 
*McLaren*
Hell, if someone's stupid enough to want to do it, all they'd have to do is reach 100Mph, and start fishtailing the car.
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MistaX
Only true for SUVs. Won't work on much of anything with a low center of gravity.
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Try it in the Mustang, and let us know how that works out for you, John.
Sleek Stratos
In short, it happened because it was a "she".
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No, it actually happened because it was a bad driver. There's a difference.
 
Duke
Try it in the Mustang, and let us know how that works out for you, John.
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Give me a safe place to do 100 where I can swerve back and forth without slamming into a guardrail and I will.
 
Fell off the back of a car carrier, car carrier keeps going and the car is left on the highway with no external signs of arrival.

Were there skidmarks leading up to it?
 
Nope, no skid marks. I don't remember that much damage as would result from falling off a car carrier. Not to mention there would probably be a car carrier around to see the damage.
 

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