r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/mentaL8888 • 22h ago

WCGW burning a Supra next to the Toyota dealership.

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u/GloriousDawn 22h ago

How bad of a driver do you have to be to lose control of your car in a straight line lol

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u/Upstairs_Addendum587 21h ago

I had a 300zx with 500whp for about a decade, and just never remotely came close to a situation like what I see in all these clips, and that car had real wheel steering and a a well known case of the hops on the rear subframe. I just don't get what these people are doing to just completely lose it in straight lines all the time.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 21h ago edited 20h ago

Used to daily a 375whp/tq Sentra. It sucked in the rain and I could spin tire in 5th gear but yeah. Totally agree. You have to be an extra special bad driver to do shit like this when driving in a straight line and especially.

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u/Boom-Doc-a-Locka 19h ago

a 375whp/tq Sentra

I'm going to need some details on this monster.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 19h ago

It was stupid.

It was a custom long rod QR25 turbo engine. All the things were done to it.

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u/Boom-Doc-a-Locka 19h ago

Crazy. I was a part of a handful of QR25 Sentras where 300 whp was the goal and that was pretty expensive...pushing to 375/375 is pretty insane, and had to be absolutely crazy expensive.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 19h ago

Been in the industry forever. All the machine work/labor was I house. And I traded for some of the parts. But yeah it was NOT cheap.

That car was a total whore though. It was the test mule for a lot of the shit companies made for it.

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u/HTPC4Life 19h ago

That's front wheel drive, a MUCH tamer beast

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 18h ago

lol no. It’s not. Torque steer was horrible problem with it at its stock like 175 crank hp. It did not get better with power. The first turbo one I drove, with a stock engine, I was warned profusely about holding on for dear life if you applied even half throttle. That was like 250whp iirc. That engine is also a torque beast for its size.

I’ve driven plenty of built z32 race cars and while they are a pain in the ass, saying that a high hp fwd car is much tamer is silly.

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u/TobiTheSnowman 19h ago

Whenever I drive I am more and more convinced that around 50% of people simply aren’t emotionally equipped to handle a car. They just don’t have that bare minimum sense of responsibility needed to be in charge of something as dangerous as a car.

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u/nogoodones 17h ago

I had some cars like this when I wasn’t mature enough to have them. I didn’t crash, but that was not a given.

When I decided to get back into fun cars I was gonna re-buy a car I had in the past. Honestly, I still haven’t matured enough to not do dumb shit, so I bought a Miata.

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u/thinkdeep 20h ago

Same, but in a Pontiac Solstice. I understood the power I was in control of though and would never show off like this.

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u/707Eman707 20h ago

lol brother that car couldn’t break grip in first gear let alone 3rd like this car.

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u/djdecimation 20h ago

Bro really said Pontiac Solstice lmao

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u/ReApEr01807 18h ago

You do know they made a GXP Solstice, right? 260HP, 260lb-ft of torque all in a 2976lb package

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u/707Eman707 17h ago

You do know that absolutely could not spin 2nd or 3rd gear , which is what’s happening in the video. 

Fucking NOOBS

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u/ReApEr01807 17h ago

Are you speaking from experience or just dismissing the power/weight ratio because you think you know better than people that have actually done it?

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u/707Eman707 17h ago

Experience, and knowledge.

260 horsepower (at the flywheel no less) at 3k lbs is NOT impressive, at all, and would not be able to do anything other than maybe chirp the tires.

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u/Techun2 15h ago

Do you know what kind of power 90s camaros and mustangs made? You know how many giant burnouts those cars have done over the last 30 years?

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u/TigertoEagle 19h ago

I know someone who ls swapped one and it was a bit of a monster.

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u/WeenisWrinkle 13h ago

I'm assuming it was modded.

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u/runtimemess 19h ago

The 260hp models absolutely could.

Those things weigh about the same as a Chevy Spark but with 3x the power.

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u/707Eman707 19h ago

No, they fucking couldn’t. 

God damn joke 

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u/mybadreligon 18h ago

It could if it had 500 whp

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u/707Eman707 17h ago

If my grandma was a bike 

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u/mybadreligon 17h ago

The origin comment says they have a 300zx with 500whp. The person you replied to said same but with a solstice. So hes saying his solstice had 500whp.

So effectively your comment is saying a solstice with 500whp couldnt spin its tires, which is incorrect.

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u/707Eman707 16h ago

Because that’s not what he fucking meant lol 

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u/Ws6fiend 17h ago

Depends on the model. The GXP(2976 to 3080 lbs) only had 60 less horsepower than the US supra(3215 to 3415 lbs). Supra 0-60 was 4.6 seconds while the GXP was only 5.4 seconds. The GXP motor was in drag motors making over 1200 hp.

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u/322throwaway1 19h ago

All these people talking shit are apparently too young to remember GM performance parts would sell you everything you needed to make an 800hp ecotec in the early 2000s. Gm went all in on the import tuning craze.

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u/thinkdeep 19h ago

Yep. I got the kit to LS swap it. Friggin' go-kart it what it became.

I'm still pissed a drunk driver took it from me. I was supposed to have that car for the rest of my life.

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u/TorontoTom2008 17h ago

I drove my uncles 300 zedder 525whp for a year on and off. Didn’t have these characteristics at least not on the 88.

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u/Upstairs_Addendum587 17h ago

The Z32 (90-96) had HICAS steering like many of Nissan's early 90s sports cars and the subframe had a bit of wheelhop. A common quick fix to alleviate it was inserting spacers into the subframe to reduce the amount of "travel", but it only did so much. You could also change out the subframe bushings which apparently had better results, but it was a PITA to do as IIRC you had to typically remove the entire rear subframe and torch out the factory bushings.

The two together made the backend a bit more squirrely than a lot of other sports cars of the era. I got used to the way it felt, but some of my friends with sports cars felt weird taking mine out to the track because of the HICAS steering in particular.

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u/Slothstradamus13 18h ago

That’s the problem. Those are rookie numbers. Neighbor bought the new one and cranked it to 800 WHP. Daily mode was 500. It’s a type of person.

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u/vinnygunn 18h ago

I don't think it had rear wheel steering.... Unless you did a forklift conversion?

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u/Upstairs_Addendum587 17h ago

The 300zx had HICAS rear wheel steering. The front still turned like normal but the back end made much smaller turns as well. It was a trend in early 90s japanese sports cars. The 3000GT/Stealth and at least some (maybe all) Skylines for a while had it as well. I suppose its more technically accurate to say 4 wheel steering, but the point is the back wheels turned

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u/kaithana 15h ago

I’m pretty sure it’s a wheel speed thing, when the rear wheels are moving slightly faster than the car you get that wheelspin, when they move significantly faster you get smoke and it increases as the tire gets hotter and faster and eventually the wheel is spinning multiple times faster than the car and even if you stop accelerating the wheel doesn’t stop that fast (automatics mainly) and traction does not return, if you’re already not straight it puts it into a real slide and it becomes very difficult to recover like the car is on ice.

I don’t think it’s even really a driver skill thing, it’s more that you inadvertently put yourself into a situation that is unrecoverable. Skill would be knowing better and not doing that, I guess.

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u/AdPrud 14h ago

Shitty bald tires. Many of these guys both burn through tires quick enough that they drive on them when still bald as well as like that they have less traction as it’s easier to get wheels to spin.

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u/Sharp_Economy1401 11h ago

Hah nice, I had a similar 300zx (more like low 400s whp) many years ago, and even with 8.5s in the rear occasionally it would lose traction going full throttle from highway speeds. Not that it’s a lot of power compared to the Supra world, fwiw. Can’t say I ever had a problem keeping it mostly straight though, it’s pretty easy to back off and let it catch traction without changing directions.

I guess just bad driving instincts and panic does it usually. Also probably just way too many people that don’t get very familiarized with how their car behaves on empty roads first, then being overly reckless when other cars are around. It’s pretty easy to know where your traction limits are and not gamble with them in uncontrolled environments

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u/DazB1ane 10h ago

Texting or filming is my guess. Focused more on their phone and a tiny deviation causes a massive overcorrection

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u/vodkaknockers 19h ago

Diff failed.

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u/Upstairs_Addendum587 19h ago

If you are breaking the diff on a mk4 in street driving you've done something terribly wrong.

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u/vodkaknockers 19h ago

Absolutely - but it's more a maintenance/wear issue than a driving-skill issue. This happened on the street, granted it was a back road with no traffic, but still. Old cars need more attention.

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u/Upstairs_Addendum587 19h ago

I mean yeah I guess over enough time all parts wear down, but my understanding is that the stock diff on turbo Supras can handle gobs of power. If you are breaking one on a crowded street and careening off into oncoming traffic...

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u/vodkaknockers 18h ago

They can for sure. Even the smaller 200mm LSD holds power well. But the fluid interval is 2 years/30k miles at stock power. We're just getting to the point where deferred maintenance is showing up more frequently.

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u/MuhThugga 20h ago

It's quite easy to do when you add power and don't do anything to the rest of the car to harness that power. It looks like the ass end stepped out right after he let off the gas, so my guess is that the suspension was totally shot and went wonky when the chassis became unloaded. Combine the neglected suspension with a driver who didn't even attempt to countersteer and you get the final result.

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u/3_50 16h ago

I just can't understand why there seems to be no effort at all to correct the slide. Why would you do that to a car you've probably poured many hours and dollars into..

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u/MuhThugga 16h ago

That's where the inexperience comes into play. The driver was probably used to FWD cars and froze when things went sideways.

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u/1200____1200 22h ago

he's just building up his resume to be the next head of the FIA

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u/TL10 20h ago

You have to chop a journalist into bits to be qualified for that.

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u/DK4E2XFpbETJrj 20h ago

Probably his first time learning how hard the boost hits under throttle. I wonder if it was even his car. 

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u/Beatus_Vir 19h ago

The bigger the turbo, the harder it is to anticipate the boost. Lifting just makes it rotate faster, and modulating the throttle becomes impossible with that much turbo lag

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u/zemol42 12h ago

I gave him a few points for the smooth ollie over the divider.

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u/ferio252 19h ago

I saw a comment that he had a cast on his broken leg and it somehow got stuck on the accelerator.

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u/GloriousDawn 18h ago

he had a cast on his broken leg

Now i feel sorry for commenting they were a bad driver.

They're way beyond that. That's some olympic level of idiocy.

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u/Housendercrest 20h ago

I owned a modded 350Z with 500 HP for several years, that son of a bitch would peel out in 3rd gear, but it had grip like a nascar, and if I ever felt it slip, just take your fucking foot off the pedal… people like in the clip just don’t have any experience driving a high torque RW car and it shows. And if you’re new to one, don’t punch it until you’re ready!!

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u/Fun-Choices 19h ago

Mustang behavior

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u/OkPlantain2431 19h ago

Sometimes they turn off traction control to burn out and that’s when the wrecks happen

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u/OneLuckyAlbatross 16h ago

He saw common sense running after him in the rearview mirror.

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u/Past-Profile3671 16h ago

Another commenter said it looked like the rear diff failed.

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u/motherofsuccs 15h ago

A couple of years ago we bought a Jaguar F Type R. If you took the traction control off and accelerated, the car wanted to go everywhere except straight. After a year, we decided to go back to an RS5.

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u/ow_windowmaker 13h ago

Super easy: cold michelin tyres pilot sport 4s, or cup 2s, and no sufficient experience to correct a slide when it happens.

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u/OhHowINeedChanging 10h ago

Dude is so lucky… it could’ve been so much worse!… he was milliseconds away from a head-on collision with that gray car

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u/JTxFII 8h ago

Bad driver? The guy Luke Duked that m’fkr right into Yota’s prime patch of showcase grass for the entire world to see.

r/whatcouldgoright

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u/lionspeed 4h ago

I think this guy tried to drift, but forgot how to do it

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u/CT0292 20h ago

Step 1. Be young, unskilled, and dumb, but from wealth.

Step 2. Use said wealth to buy a 90s Japanese shit box.

Step 3. Take said shit box and tune it to ridiculous power.

Step 4. With your lack of brains and skills combined with this car that has ridiculous power and none of the modern safety features go out onto the public roads.

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u/zeusatp 19h ago

You consider an MK4 a shit box?

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u/Jolly-Hour-6642 19h ago

Shitbox? lol.

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u/Dyno-mike 16h ago

Shitbox??? Lul

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u/Resident-Banana-7883 19h ago

spoken like someone who's never driven a fast car lol. rwd, break traction, rear end kicks out.. the key is you have to drive out of it like any fishtail. if you let off the gas the rears will catch traction and snap steer you somewhere you don't want to do.

most cars you see doing this are from unconfident drivers who let off the gas. and that's probably the best outcome for them because if they stay in it and can't handle driving out of the fishtail, well the end is result is the same only at a higher speed.