Originally Posted By Jays
Originally Posted By Stewart S
Originally Posted By Jays
Originally Posted By Stewart S

I'm sure it will be all sorted to everyone's satisfaction and in the meantime MMC will have to deal with a local red face and probably change their testing drive routines





Why should the factory change their test drive routines? There's no suggestion that the test driver was breaking any speed limit.

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It wasn't a comment about speed at all, it was a comment about the report that implied the driver knew there was something wrong so turned into that road off the main test route. If I were MMC I would find out what went wrong, have a pretest inspection on that particular issue and make sure that if a driver senses something wrong that the car is immediately stopped for recovery

In my business I work on a system that if it's gone wrong once, it can happen again however unlikely so you try to mitigate it by putting a system in to not let it happen again


Hmmmm....in the two news reports I've seen there is no suggestion that the driver had pulled off the normal test route. There is a reference to a "test track" which implies off road testing...which Morgan don't do unless in development of a new model.
Both reports are pretty speculative and it's wrong to make assumptions without the true facts.


Interview in the Metro

‘He said they were doing tests on a new car on the test track when they noticed a funny noise coming from the rear. Their test driver had taken it onto the road and somehow it had smashed into my drive.

2008 XXVII Platform, Bugatti Blue Roadster 4 Seater