Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. It happens. What really matters is how you go about correcting those mistakes. This is especially important out on the road, where one wrong move can have dramatic consequences for anyone who happens to be around. Unfortunately, the driver of this particular Pontiac Grand Prix decides to make a bad decision worse, as evidenced in the following brief video.
Coming to us from Durham, North Carolina, this video was captured on December 17th, 2020, and shows a scary moment on the road, as seen from the dash of another motorist.
As the camera vehicle cruises down the road, some light traffic is flowing along on both sides of the highway. All seems normal, until suddenly, a silver seventh-generation Pontiac Grand Prix appears in the far-right turning lane traveling at a high rate of speed.
It’s unclear exactly what the Pontiac Grand Prix driver was thinking – perhaps they were about to take the wrong exit, or maybe they weren’t paying attention and realized they were in a turning lane and traveling too fast to make the corner. Either way, the driver slams on the brakes, pitching the Pontiac’s nose down to the pavement.
The rear wheels lock up under the heavy braking, throwing the car sideways as the driver steers around the divider. The car’s weight then transitions, leaving the driver helpless as they spin out into the intersection.
Incredibly, the Pontiac Grand Prix misses not only the divider, but every other car on the road as well, and ends up rolling backwards through a four-way stoplight.
However, the driver apparently isn’t done making mistakes. Rather than turn the car around or stopping on the side of the road, the driver shifts into reverse, and accelerates backwards. After getting some momentum, the driver attempts a J turn to get the Pontiac Grand Prix pointed the right direction, but ends up hopping a curb instead.
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I live in the area. It’s a clover leaf interchange between I-85 and a surface artery. The idiot was going way too fast, but even at the proper speed it’s tricky in traffic because you have 250 ft to merge before you get right back onto I-85. Right after the point where he hits the curb, the three lanes becomes two, so there’s a second rush to merge left again.
I’ve never considered any of these FWD, four-door W-bodies to be a real Grand Prix. They have nothing in common with the earlier models that I think were called Tigers in a Tux; an elegant coupe with the go-power of the mighty goat (GTO).
In later years, GM bastardized the name in an effort to move otherwise uninspired FWD V-6 sedans that ultimately mostly went into rental fleets and in so-doing killed the Grand Prix name and Pontiac brand.
I had an 04 GTP Comp G. I agree it could never hold a candle to a 1969 SSJ 428 HO.
This was just a GM corporate car that used an old name. The last real Pontiac was the 88 4 cylinder Fiero. It was only sold by Pontiac, it was built in Pontiac and had a Pontiac 4 cylinder. Anything later was just a styling exercise. I know as I owned a number of them.
That engine was called the iron Duke
XXhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Duke_engine#:~:text=The%20Iron%20Duke%20engine%20(also,Motors%20from%201977%20to%201993.
I have a idea of what they was trying to pull it’s that stunt where they can hit the brakes and do a 360 spin and reverse hard just like what Paul walker did in the 2fast 2furious movie in that green Mitsubishi Evo but as for them vehicle’s there way to big to pull that stunt in traffic like that otherwise nice try it’s too bulky of a vehicle in general
Bradley Bushe, you are referring to what is known as a “Bat Turn”. A maneuver often executed by the Batmobile on the original Batman TV show with Adam West and Burt Ward.
I have an 06 Grand Prix GXP and I would never attempt such a move with it. The car is a sled. It is meant to go forward in a straight line, very quickly and it does it very well. It does handle corners much better than the OG GP’s, but it is just not designed to do much more than go forward very fast.
I just believe there ABS “took a day off from work” in that situation.
The idiot was going to pass the other car on the right then noticed that he was in an exit only lane. I see it all the time where I live.
The idiot was attempting to pass the other car on the right the noticed at the past second that he was in an exit only lane. I see it all the time where I live.
A great example of what can’t be done with a crazy nose heavy FWD vehicle (65% +). Not to mention that the guy can’t drive.