That is an.impressive display of both vertical reach and distance. Those two dim bastards must have really been cookin'.
Edit: Looking at the pictures below, they were really, really, really berkeleyin' cookin'. That took some serious inertia.
I have friends who don't live far from the scene and know of the building. It's apparently lower than the road grade than it appears in pictures, so the elevation gain isn't quite as impressive. They also heard from local sources the Porsche was a 2010 Boxster.
It will be interesting when investigators determine how fast they were going at the point of take-off. My money is on 100+.
Another article. "Skid marks blacken the roadway about 100 feet from where the car landed." That's a lot of hangtime.
Porsche has got to be tickled. You just can't buy advertising like this!
I bet all Mustang owners are relieved that it was not another display of how not to drive your mustang.
Sad that the driver and the passenger both did not make it. Condolences to the families.
Solid form, stuck the landing. I'll give it 9 points.
I can't seem to find it now, but there is a picture showing skid marks that leave the ground after going across the median and oncoming somewhere past the stop sign and the car at extreme right.
Here it is. They definitely got some distance out of it:
Ouch. Looks like it went in rear-first.
In reply to Ian F :
And upside down.
Another long shot of the trajectory:
Here's the car in situ:
Damn... 
At least the building was empty at the time. Anyone in that room wouldn't have stood a chance.
And they weren't even leaving Cars and Coffee...
If they had a subaru they could've said "they lived".
I'm still having a hard time processing the physics of that launch.
In reply to slowbird :
They must have been traveling just about as fast as that thing would go. Looks to me like a long spin to the left across the median, then the right front corner hit the curb on the opposite side of the road (lefthand tire track). That launched it overhand and deflected it to the right a bit, tumbling / spinning from right front to left rear.
It took the typical Porsche driver racing line....
I hate it when that happens.
slowbird said:I'm still having a hard time processing the physics of that launch.
I am kind in the same boat.
I am also in awe of the Porsche suspension. It hit the sloped median curb at some crazy velocity, absorbed the impact and was back on land and composed ( as seen by the skidmarks) by the time it cleared the median.
The second curb was a square curb. It may be that when it hit that one, the nose dug into the curb the car somersaulted and launched into a cartwheel that stuck the landing in the bedroom.
I am also amazed that it managed to hit only the one dormer.
Looks like there had to have been some sort of aerodynamic lift going on, which means some serious speed, and a good nose lift. Being mid-engined probably helped to keep the right nose high attitude also.
In reply to NOHOME :
I'm seeing the first hit of the slopes curbing caused a bit of suspension decompression, then the Porsche compressed on the other side, and, at the perfect velocity, decompressed at precisely the well timed moment to aid lift off at the curb. It was like Travis Pastrami was driving.
As a landlord, this is the kind of call I fear.
"It appears there's a vehicle stuck in your building."
That, or a train finally hits its target coming off the tracks.
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