I hope his insurance covered that, otherwise his life savings just went poof!
Dang!
DANG!
I don’t know insurance in England. In the US he’d be out his Collision deductible ($500?) … .
Dang!
My writing skills are inadequate to express just how badly I feel for this guy.
$320,000? :dubious:
I’ve seen Mazdas that looked snazzier than that.
How the heck does a “municipal employee” afford a Ferrari F1?!?
Didn’t read the article. Does he work in Chicago? 
I don’t think it’s so bad… and that prancing pony on the front DEFINITELY snazzes it up!
I don’t mean that in a bad way!
What is also funny is in under 1 minute of searching on google i found a seller in europe with the exact same car for 179k rather than 320k. So he not only blew his car but he spent 141k more than he needed to.
Why don’t we all sent him a roll of duct tape. You can fix anything with duct tape.
It’s not mentioned in the article but he pretty much saved all his life for that car.
Sounds like he’s the managing director for London’s version of Fannie Mae.
So are Ferraris built out of pottery, or was he putting the car through its paces when he hit the pothole? How do you shatter a wheel?
Kind of ironic, though. This is the one time the guy should have been driving an SUV.
[Nelson]Ha-Ha![/Nelson]
It’s the burrowing Tibetans. They get a little close to the surface sometimes.
Dammit! No pictures of the wreckage anywhere? I almost want to feel smug about this, but if it were me it happened to, I’d probably be eyeing my rifle right about now.
With all the potholes and speed bumps in this country, I’m amazed anyone manages to drive a car like that without wrecking it.
That’ll buff right out.
Actually, I feel this guy’s pain (in a much more minor way).
I bought my first ever brand-new car this year, a Mazda RX-8 which I’d been drooling over for ages. I’d checked the dimensions in the brochure, I’d measured my garage (garages on British houses are SMALL). I finally cleared out all the junk from the garage, about *two weeks * after I got my shiny new car. Hmm. This car is wide, isn’t it? Still, I measured it, right? Girlfriend is put on sentry duty at back of car as I slowly reverse it in (forwards was out due to a big pillar that would have stopped me opening the driver’s door).
Get almost all the way in, wing mirrors are past the door frame so I think I’m home and dry, then… :eek: a horrible metallic scraping noise as I put a lovely dent/scrape combo in the front wheel arch :smack: :smack:
That cost £400 to get fixed, all out of my own pocket (not worth claiming on the insurance, with a £250 excess) 
The car now lives on the driveway. My drumkit lives in the garage
So he could have bought from this guy instead and had enough left over to buy a Humvee with all the fixin’s, and pothole worries would be a thing of the past.
179,000… Euros? Pounds? Dollars? It makes a difference, you know. The $320,000 quoted in the Washington Times article was (obviously) in dollars.