# That WAS a Ferrari Enzo! You unmitigated bastard!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [March 28, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760 "2007-03-28T00:11:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/1 "2007-03-28T00:11:19Z")
[See it and weep…](http://thesuperficial.com/2007/03/post_6.php)
Some guy named Eddie Griffin (I’m assuming an actor of some kind? Sure as shit he can’t act like he knows how to drive) turns a 1.5 million dollar, incredibly rare (1/400) Ferrari Enzo into a scrap heap–because he CAN’T FUCKING DRIVE!
_hyperventilate_ _cleansing breath_ _mantra_
I swear I am physically hurting after seeing that. What I wouldn’t give to take a car like that out for a lovely respectful run, and this bloody moron runs it right into a concrete abutment and fucks it all up.
Way to go, fuckwit!
_grumble grumble_
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/2 "2007-03-28T00:14:44Z")
He’s a comedian, and I thought the whole thing was pretty damn funny.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/3 "2007-03-28T00:17:18Z")
It’s a fuckin’ car. You need a chillax.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/4 "2007-03-28T00:19:53Z")
Actually, the real idiot in this story is the owner who let him drive it. What kind of moron thinks a comedian is qualified to handle a high-performance car? Serves his dumb ass right.
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/5 "2007-03-28T00:22:33Z")
shrug.
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/6 "2007-03-28T00:30:30Z")
Yeah, who gives a shit? Did the owner have it insured? Then he can probably get a new one. In fact, even if he didn’t have it insured or the insurance didn’t cover unfunny comedians reducing it to a pile of shit, I’m confident he can get a new one. Because anybody who loans out such a car to any dipshit off the street _to race in_ sure as fuck ain’t that worried about it.
Anyway, it’s a fucking car, not _Starry Night_. Get a grip. Nothing lasts forever, grasshopper.
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### Author:  [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/7 "2007-03-28T00:35:46Z")
Nope, that ain’t just a fuckin’ car–that’s a really fast, pretty car that I’d give an ovary to drive around for a while. Hey, if you aren’t a car person, that’s cool, but for some of us that’s a major sacrilege. That’s taking a shit in the Pope’s hat. I can handle dismembered babies and kicked puppies, but damn–THAT WAS AN ENZO!
It’s like Ferris Bueller but worse, because it’s real.
If that car were mine I wouldn’t let anyone near it–no shit, the owner is a retard. Now he’s a no-Ferrari retard, too. Wonder what the insurance company is gonna say about this one?
:smack:
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### Author:  [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/8 "2007-03-28T00:39:59Z")
Now, if it was a 64 GTO (Ferrari or Pontiac), _that_ would be a tragedy worthy of a major ass-kicking 🙂
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/9 "2007-03-28T00:44:30Z")
I’m just depressed because Undercover Brother would NEVER crash a car. It’s as if Sean Connery just published a book of poetry.
So much for suspension of disbelief.
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### Author:  [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/10 "2007-03-28T00:49:49Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
Now, if it was a 64 GTO (Ferrari or Pontiac), _that_ would be a tragedy worthy of a major ass-kicking 🙂
[/QUOTE]
I’m onboard with ya here–heck, if it was an F40 or an F50 I’d probably be passed out on the floor foaming at the mouth, but this is certainly bad enough. Dammit, how much of a dorkcheese do you have to be to fuck up a car that badly in such a short period of time? He went into that divider like it had a target painted on it–how can you fail to steer a car that good away from something that immovable? Gah, people who don’t deserve these cars get to mess them up and I can’t even take a lap around PIR in something fun. There’s no damned justice in the world…
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/11 "2007-03-28T01:00:07Z")
The one to hate is the owner, not Griffin. Anyway there’s a thread about this in Cafe Society, and somebody is suggesting the whole thing is promotion for a movie.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/12 "2007-03-28T01:00:49Z")
I was impressed by the comment from the owner:
> [@](#):
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> "I’m glad Eddie came out of the crash okay, but my dream car got destroyed. I went to my trailer for about 15 minutes and I thought, ‘There’s people dying every day. A lot of worse things are happening in the world.’ "
There’s a guy with a firm grasp of priorities.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/13 "2007-03-28T01:10:45Z")
I posted this in the thread on the topic in CS too - Keith Olbermann’s Countdown news show on MSNBC played the video, and pointed out two interesting points. One, there is a cameraman standing immediately behind the barrier that the Ferrari rams into, and he doesn’t so much as flinch or shift position even as the car crashes into that barrier only a couple feet from him. Two, after the crash, Griffin actually leans on the wrecked car and poses for photos. Could this be the world’s most expensive promotional stunt?
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### Author:  [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/14 "2007-03-28T01:12:37Z")
Great Og I certainly hope it’s not a publicity stunt–unless of course that’s really some elaborate kit car built on top of a Mustang frame or something. If it is, kill it twice! 😃
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### Author:  [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/15 "2007-03-28T01:13:06Z")
[QUOTE=Miller]
There’s a guy with a firm grasp of priorities.
[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a frickin ivory tower lefty Hollyweird elitist to me!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
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### Author:  [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/16 "2007-03-28T01:13:42Z")
Drive it like you stole it, bitch.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/17 "2007-03-28T01:20:15Z")
That is certainly a newb mistake. Looks like he blew the brake point, locked up the tires (at
which point the car won’t turn of course), and rammed the barrier as a result. Sad.
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### Author:  [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/18 "2007-03-28T01:21:33Z")
The Enzo is an ugly POS anyway. I think the wreck actually improved its looks.
Now had it been a McLaren F1, or a Bugatti Veyron. Both of these cars look better, and would smoke an Enzo.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/19 "2007-03-28T01:24:28Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder]
I posted this in the thread on the topic in CS too - Keith Olbermann’s Countdown news show on MSNBC played the video, and pointed out two interesting points. One, there is a cameraman standing immediately behind the barrier that the Ferrari rams into, and he doesn’t so much as flinch or shift position even as the car crashes into that barrier only a couple feet from him. Two, after the crash, Griffin actually leans on the wrecked car and poses for photos. Could this be the world’s most expensive promotional stunt?
[/QUOTE]
When I first heard about this crashup I was amazed and appalled, but you make good points. And $1.5m ain’t all that much when it comes to Hollywood promo campaigns.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-a-ferrari-enzo-you-unmitigated-bastard/397760/20 "2007-03-28T01:57:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> "I’m glad Eddie came out of the crash okay, but my dream car got destroyed. I went to my trailer for about 15 minutes and I thought, ‘There’s people dying every day. A lot of worse things are happening in the world.’ "
“…for example, a hack comedian just found out today that he’ll never work in this town again.”
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