$1.5 million Ferrari wrecked moments after leaving dealership

[Liberal_in_LA]

$1.5 million Ferrari operated by a person with driving skills more suited to a Ford Fiesta crashed within moments of leaving a dealership in the Hungarian capital.

Driver crashes brand new Ferrari after leaving dealership - YouTube
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The accident was captured last weekend on video by the driver of a car following the LaFerrari, one of the most expensive vehicles in the world, on a busy street.

At first, everything seemed to be going well, but then a lane opened up and the driver of the LaFerrari hit the gas hard, causing the 950-horsepower hybrid to fishtail and careen off the street and into parked cars.

While no one was hurt, the rare sports car sustained serious damage to its front end.
http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/1-5-million-Ferrari-wrecked-moments-after-6615584.php

[Initech]

1. Well you know that saying about a fool and his money...

[Warpy]

3. I was about to say he could probably afford it

but he'll probably sue the dealership, claim the car was defective.

Looks like a pretty cheesy car for a million and a half. The front end is shredded.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. That carbon fiber type material always looks cheap when damage

[Hortensis]

12. The price just reflects the volume of excess money passsed

around at that level. Like a $100 million Picasso.

[hobbit709]

11. The question is "how did the fool get the money in the first place?"

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Fucking moron.

The idea of rolling his ankle into the throttle was lost on him. Just stand on it and see what happens!


What a damned fool.

[Brother Buzz]

4. More horsepower then a NASCAR Sprint Cup car

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. From wikipedia

Ferrari states that the car has a top speed exceeding 350 km/h (217 mph), and that it is capable of reaching 100 km/h (62 mph) in under three seconds, 200 km/h (124 mph) in under seven seconds, and a speed of 300 km/h (186 mph) in 15 seconds.[2] Ferrari also claims that the car has lapped its Fiorano Test Circuit in 1:19.70 which is faster than any other road-legal car Ferrari has ever produced.[15]

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. Street legal F1 car.

Just like the Enzo and the F-50.

If you open the rear hatch and look at the rear end of these units, they look just like a Formula 1 car.

[jmowreader]

9. That's what happens when you sell a 950hp car to a NDMF

These stupid non-driving motherfuckers with more money than brains...stick 'em in a car with more horsepower than 90 percent of the airplanes on the market, and shit like this HAS to happen. There's no way around it! A guy would think, "brand new shiny rocketship of a car, shouldn't we fly the guy who bought it to Monza and put him in front of a racing instructor for a couple of days?" If you have a million-five for a car like this, $25,000 per year for insurance and $20,000 a year for an on-call traffic ticket lawyer, you have a few thousand bucks for a nice Italian vacation.

Fortunately for this idiot, Ferrari S.p.A. should still have the molds to make him a new front clip.

[Scuba]

10. 950 horses under the hood, and one jackass behind the wheel.

[mnhtnbb]

13. LOL. Well said!

[ileus]

14. must be a crappy traction control design.

[Lizzie Poppet]

21. One of the best, actually.

Right up there with the GT-R (of all things). But it can be turned off...and I suspect that's what this clown shoe might have done.

c. 950 horsepower, a decent chunk of it from the electric motor, which has massive torque from 0 RPM...electronic driver aids turned off (I suspect)...driver with no experience with anything like this level of performance (I also suspect).

Oops.

[ileus]

22. I rode in a F430 last month...

One of our docs traded his old one and got the 430....he's a funny old man. He's treats his as DD, rain or shine he brings in the Ferrari. I've even seen him drive them on days where there was light snow.

He gave us a ride in his Viper venom 1000 a few years ago, it spent more time in the garage than on the road. Eventually he totaled it and picked up the Silver (boring) ferrari.

The Ferraris' are much more refined than his old Dodge that's for sure.

Prior to that the only Ferrari I'd ever rode in was that Mondial a doc at my DWs work bought many years ago to go along with his ugly European car collection. (He had 8 MGs stolen last year from a storage building, and had no idea for several months)


Oh and a side note....I think he traded Ferraris because of a bunch of routine maintenance his silver one was needing. He was complaining to us a few months ago about needing a 5-11k of maintenance.

[MindPilot]

15. Not all that uncommon.

Worked in a car dealer for the better part of twenty years. On probably a dozen occasions I got to watch some poor bastard tear up his new ride pulling out of the dealership. And more often than not it was some dude with a new muscle car who suddenly thought he was at Sears Point or some such.

[Codeine]

16. ProTip; Italian supercars do not drive like hot hatches.

For the vast majority of drivers they are best kept as posters for 12-year-old boys' bedrooms.

[EL34x4]

17. My old man is a television repairman

He's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

[Brother Buzz]

19. All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

[pa28]

18. Noooooooooooooo

[linuxman]

20. It's an entirely different class of car.

You should really get some experience with one before putting the hammer down on a city street.

[hunter]

23. There is no intelligent life on earth.

Seriously, the mere existence of automobiles like this is all the evidence we need to declare this world "market" economy corrupt beyond measure or repair.

Fubar.

Automobile are among the most idiotic machines humans have ever devised.

I was born in the Jet Age of Automobiles, when cars had big fins, but I was hoping the age of the automobile would be over by now.



Until that fine future when ordinary people are asking, "Why the fuck would I want an automobile?" I'll settle for laughing whenever I see an absurdly expensive cars trashed without any serious injury to innocent bystanders.

Hopefully this idiot LaFerrari driver paid for the damage he did to others, on the spot.

So sorry, my bad. Here's $30,000 cash to replace your old car I wrecked.

Sadly, my experience is that too many overly wealthy humans are assholes who got overly wealthy screwing others over, knowingly or not, and at best they'll say "Call my lawyer," their lawyer being someone just as mean as they are.

Ode to another dead Ferrai:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Eriksson

[LeftyMom]

25. The Old Country has been super embarrassing lately.

Explaining to blank faces where my father's family is from beats 'oh, the ridiculous fascists who kick migrant children.'

[kwassa]

26. I saw a Porsche catch on fire and burn up a block after leaving the dealer garage ...

and it burned in place on a main avenue in LA right in front an auto insurance claims office.

Apparent leak in the fuel line.