Not a way an LC should be

Some poor guy in the USA got rear ended at a quite decent pace.  He's writing it up on AdvRider at http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/bayerische-phoenix-rising-bringing-the-2015-gs-back-from-the-dead.1232747/

It's a good read and shows how robust these things are




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