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Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: Gratiot on January 26, 2011, 12:41:39 PM

Title: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: Gratiot on January 26, 2011, 12:41:39 PM
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The editor of wealth management magazine Worth crashed a $250,650.00 Bentley in Connecticut during a test-drive.  Kate Winick, the senior editor for the magazine that advises high-net-worth people how to manage their money...

...“Lost its bumper,” is how Winick described last week's crash.

News.com (http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/editor-of-luxury-magazine-crashes-250000-bentley-during-connecticut-test-drive/story-e6frflri-1225994000744)
Title: Re: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: TVDOC on January 26, 2011, 12:48:29 PM
I'm sure the folks at Bentley are simply thrilled.......

doc
Title: Re: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: IassaFTots on January 26, 2011, 12:50:40 PM
Quote from: TVDOC on January 26, 2011, 12:48:29 PM
I'm sure the folks at Bentley are simply thrilled.......

doc

Agreed, but what the hell were they doing, giving the keys to her with icy roads???
Title: Re: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: Chris_ on January 26, 2011, 12:53:34 PM
That's quite a headline.
Title: Re: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: Gratiot on January 26, 2011, 12:57:36 PM
Quote from: TVDOC on January 26, 2011, 12:48:29 PM
I'm sure the folks at Bentley are simply thrilled.......

doc

According to her, they were...

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She said people at the car company were “lovely.” 

                    “You know, they deal with this stuff all the time,” she added

...The car had to be towed back to New York City.

Right...   :lmao:


Title: Re: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: Chris_ on January 26, 2011, 01:00:23 PM
Quote from: Gratiot on January 26, 2011, 12:57:36 PM
Right...   :lmao:

I'm sure Maaco will get right on it.
Title: Re: Bentley Continental GTC+Icy Connecticut Road+Magazine Editor+Test Drive=Crash
Post by: TVDOC on January 26, 2011, 01:10:45 PM
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She said people at the car company were “lovely.”  

                    â€œYou know, they deal with this stuff all the time,” she added

...The car had to be towed back to New York City.

I worked in the auto industry for many years, and for a small part of that time I was based in LA, where my employer maintained a large fleet of new vehicles for magazine reporters/product reviews, motion picture dignitaries and shoots, as well as various VIPs from the area, for public relations purposes.

I could spend an entire day relating stories about the condition in which these vehicles were returned (assuming they actually WERE returned, as many of them were simply recovered from a police impound lot).   In an alarming number of cases what we got back was suitable only for scrap.

The experience left me with a permanently negative opinion of the media and motion picture industry, and the "people" that it employs..........

doc