Doh! I'd like to see some pics. Actually, this sounds pretty shitty. He just left his hurt passenger with the wreckage. How drunk do you figure he was?
That's a good one, blood on the driver's airbag, but none on the P-side. Bleeding "passenger" who just happends to be the registered owner, and the typical man with one arm who was driving, but skedadled into the woods.
This isn't like a Playstation at all, when you crash the car is F-cked up!
That's a good one, blood on the driver's airbag, but none on the P-side. Bleeding "passenger" who just happends to be the registered owner, and the typical man with one arm who was driving, but skedadled into the woods.
This isn't like a Playstation at all, when you crash the car is F-cked up!
Yeah, looks like you're right. That NBC article has been updated since I posted it. It says the "passenger" was the registered owner... good try, guy.
A very sad day. My favorite car and one of now 398 Got to see the thing in piece on the news. Who knows how fast he was going to turn that car into a billion pieces. And even if this guy wasnt the driver he deserves a beating for letting someone else drive this car yet alone race it.
A very sad day. My favorite car and one of now 649 Got to see the thing in piece on the news. Who knows how fast he was going to turn that car into a billion pieces.
Proof yet again that you don't have to be smart to be wealthy. A simple blood test of the driver's airbag should settle who it belongs to. At least no innocent people were killed by this assclown.
Proof yet again that you don't have to be smart to be wealthy. A simple blood test of the driver's airbag should settle who it belongs to. At least no innocent people were killed by this assclown.
We'll see the Enzo on Ebay.
Ya I can see it now. Shard of carbon fiber from 2003 ferrari enzo Starting bid 5000.
In the guys defence, after an accident you are usually pretty dazed and not thinking clearly so he may not have thought out his plan to well. That and well he was drunk!
give the guy a break, he just crashed one of the nicest cars in the world
Who knew a Mercedes could win a race against an Enzo?
Who knew a V6 dakota would smoke a kid in a viper in teh twisties either.
Also that Mercedes SLR (or whatever designation it is) has a similar top speed to the enzo and is about as pricey.
This is I think teh 2nd or 3rd Enzo that I've seen crashed where it split in half. Dont know if thats part of the design to take some of teh impact forces away from teh driver or just a fluke.
Let's pick on him a little more. "Hi, I'm just driven my Ferrari Enzo a Meeeelion dollar car down to the clubs and now I'm going home,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,alone. Yes I'm the lamest millionaire in Malibu!"
Same problem they had with the mclaren F1, it is such a fast car and most of the people that buy them are such idiots that a quarter of the cars made get totalled. Of course the people that take care of the car will see the value go up everytime some asshat destroys one. Ferrari is said to be pretty picky about who buys their supercars, usually you have to own atleast 3 other ferraris before you can even think of buying one. So the really rich just buy them from an intermediary for a fee of course. Go through ferrari and the f60 costs around 600k, can't go through ferrari you're looking at a million plus. Atleast that is what I have heard.
Same problem they had with the mclaren F1, it is such a fast car and most of the people that buy them are such idiots that a quarter of the cars made get totalled. Of course the people that take care of the car will see the value go up everytime some asshat destroys one. Ferrari is said to be pretty picky about who buys their supercars, usually you have to own atleast 3 other ferraris before you can even think of buying one. So the really rich just buy them from an intermediary for a fee of course. Go through ferrari and the f60 costs around 600k, can't go through ferrari you're looking at a million plus. Atleast that is what I have heard.
The F50 was not available to buy, you had to lease the car for three years. This was so that "owners" could not flip their cars immediately after taking delivery, they all had to wait until the lease was up, pay the residual, then sell the car. This was in response to the F40, where people for a time could sell their F40 for near $1M as soon as taking delivery. I've read that everyone that wanted one of the 349 F50s produced had to fill out (OK, have their assistant fill out...) a multi-page application form. They had to own other Ferraris and basically prove why they were worthy of an F50. Ferrari and their dealers got to hand-pick who got the car for the first three years. Original total price was just under $600k, they sell now for about $100k more than that.
The Enzo had a similar application process I believe, but the cars were sold to customers rather than leased. 400 produced (399+1) and again Ferrari hand-picked the original owners. many of whom have flipped the cars, probably pocketing a few hundred thousand in the process.
As I understand it, the entire world of buying a brand-new Ferrari at list price is a murky world of political and financial arrangements that would make Al Capone proud. Dealers cannot sell for more than list price on a new car, but a used car they are free to sell for market price. So the dealer sells to his friend at list price, he drives it for a month and puts it back on the lot on consignment for $75k more at market price, with the dealer and seller splitting the profit. For example, F430 convertibles with 100 miles are selling for $75k more than new list at the moment. It is what happens when you only make 4000 cars/year.
There is a waiting list for V8's, while demand for the V12 cars are less but still good. Dealers are able to control their waiting list, and where your name is in the que depends on who you know at the dealership. At some dealerships the waiting list for the 360 Modena ws much more than the dealership would ever be allocated 360's.
Note to self; dont buy Enzo with salvage title from Sweedish dude.
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I had a 944 Turbo, neat car, I loved it, it allowed me to replay that scene at the end of 16 candles & stuff.
I went out drinking one night and got in over my head. Asked a friend to drive me someplace to sober up.
He waited until I passed out in the passenger seat to "see what it could do". After he left the road sideways at 100+ we caught a telephone pole in the right rear quarter, which spun us the other way. . . shredded the car. He tried to flee. Yeah, bastard was half way up the hill into the woods, just would left me there if a local pastor's son hadn't stopped and called the bastard down.
The dirrection of the bruise across my chest from the seat belt firmly established in the cops (and everybody else's) mind who was driving. It still cost me $3,000 even with full coverage.
Stupid happens & I won't say that Enzo owner wasn't stupid, just that I know how an expensive lesson like that feels & hope the jackass learned his lesson as deeply as I did.
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You just totalled a Ferrari Enzo? Better run.
I'd like to see some pics. Actually, this sounds pretty shitty. He just left his hurt passenger with the wreckage. How drunk do you figure he was?
Got to see the thing in piece on the news. Who knows how fast he was going to turn that car into a billion pieces. And even if this guy wasnt the driver he deserves a beating for letting someone else drive this car yet alone race it.
When good men do nothing, darker and stranger men must fill the breach. Pray for me, a sinner.
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