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| 06-24-2010, 05:41 AM | #1 |
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Chief Lexus/Toyota driver dies at wheel of LFA - sad day
Credit goes to m3 poster noxredna for posting this.
Thought i would share. I'm on my iPad so couldn't paste the picture for some reason, don't know how to. Picture is on the original post though. News from: http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/23/b...-germany-ring/ BREAKING: Toyota's chief test driver dies behind wheel of LFA in Germany by Damon Lavrinc (RSS feed) on Jun 23rd 2010 at 1:55PM We don't have much in the way of details yet, but according to a report out of Germany, Toyota's chief test driver has died in a crash on highway 410 near the Nurburgring after veering into the oncoming lane and colliding with two others test drivers driving a BMW. While the two BMW test drivers survived the crash, the yet-unnamed Toyota driver died behind the wheel of the recently spied LFA Nurburgring Edition he was driving. The report says that the driver of the LF-A was 67 years old and Toyota's chief test driver, which leads us to believe that he is Hiromu Naruse, In addition to being the company's chief test driver, Naruse is also Akio Toyoda's personal driver and the Godfather of the LFA. More information should be forthcoming. UPDATE: The two test drivers in the BMW sustained life-threatening injuries and one is in critical condition. UPDATE 2: Video of the scene added after the jump. UPDATE 3: Spiegel is confirming that Naruse was the driver. Last edited by x5mad; 06-24-2010 at 06:07 AM.. |
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| 06-24-2010, 10:36 AM | #4 |
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I read about that yesterday too. Definitely sad.
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| 06-24-2010, 11:02 AM | #5 |
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This is all over the universal forums...
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| 06-24-2010, 01:22 PM | #6 |
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Wow, that is sad
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| 06-26-2010, 01:29 PM | #8 |
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DAMN!! I thought u guys were messing around.... RIP...
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