You think THAT Enzo wreck was bad? Check these out. Noteworthy among them is the wrecked Enzo that former Gizmondo executive Stefan Eriksson was driving. He spread debris over a half mile, then tried to claim that he wasn’t driving and that the real driver fled the scene following a drag race with a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Worse, the Enzo was in default, the bank was trying to repo it, and it was illegally imported to the US from Europe. That guy was (and still is) in a whole heap of trouble.
It’s a good day to be an Enzo owner. If you have one, your car just became more valuable.
Incidentally, the Enzo went for $650,000 new. I’ve seen the $1.5 million bandied about, but I’d like to know where it came from.
As it stands, it appears that the car can in fact be repaired. I read elsewhere that Ferrari said that they could repair the car that I was talking about above for $400,000. All that was left of that car was what was in front of the engine bulkhead, and not much of that, either. This wreck pales in comparison to that one.
If you are stupid enough to let someone obviously unqualified drive your Enzo, you deserve whatever happens. Sad that he had to trash a rare piece of automotive art, but hey, you knew what you were doing when you let him behind the wheel.
BTW, if I ever hit the lottery really big and own something like that, the answer will be “No fucking way am I letting you drive it! Shit, get your lousy pawprints off it, you nimrod! Security!”
Ayrton Senna crashed a car while racing. The Stig crashed a car while filming Top Gear. You can’t see any of what goes on for anything except the last fraction of a second before he hit. Without more, I don’t know you can say too much about how bad a driver this guy is. (not that I’m saying he’s not bad, you understand).
It looked to me like a course mostly set up with traffic cones so that learning drivers wouldn’t do too much damage if they had an off. I suspect the crash barrier was there to protect photographers. In other words, the only thing Griffin could hit was the place where the photographers were standing for safety reasons. That’s rather different from the assumption they had been placed where they were expecting him to crash.
Also, the bit about the photographer not flinching is weak: if you look closely, the perspective gives a false suggestion the car hit while heading at the photographer. Actually, it was not heading towards him but to a point beyond him. Also, at the crucial point, the camera is panning so hard you can’t really see what the photographer’s reaction is, at the time he would have reacted allowing for his reflexes.
Yeah, i was wondering about that. There are currently two Enzos for sale on the DuPont Registry website, but neither lists the asking price.
According to this article, the Enzo usually sells for a bit more than $1 million at auction. The article also talks about a special Enzo, the last one built, which was given to the Pope to be auctioned for charity. It fetched $1,274,229, which we should probably assume is at the upper limit, given its status as the last one made.
Can you point to anyone acting like he did, including the car’s owner, who in fact noted that with people dying every day it was hardly a big deal? Are objects not allowed to have any sentimental value unless we personally own them? If a rare painting had been destroyed, would you say “it’s just a fucking painting”? Okay, granted, in this case there would be 399 others, but the point is, presumably you do think some objects are worth noting the absence of when destroyed. Just assume your approved categories thereof are different from those of people who think this is a damn shame, and move on.
As noted, the car is hardly close to being totalled, wrecked, destroyed, whatever.
It certainly needs some front end body work and possibly some chassis work, but it is not as though there is one fewer Enzo in the world, todaty.
Yeah, your stupid ass. If you’ll notice, there’s no military occupation after my user name, which automatically makes me several degrees less stupid than you. The fact that you can’t recognize a tossed-off joke without getting smug and indignant puts you down even further. And that you can’t scroll up and see I already made my real response to the OP in post #6 cements your standing. Now shut the fuck up and go buy some groceries, bitch!
Sure. But this car is just a rich man’s toy. “1 of 400” is hardly unique, and since it was recognized as a collectible item from the beginning, most of them will survive for a long time. I just can’t get worked up about one of them being destroyed. Many truly unique artifacts are destroyed every day, without anyone noticing or even recognizing its value.
You forgot the part about the gun, the fake business, and the “real driver” that vanished.
Heh, the rare typo from tomndebb. True the world is not necessarily out an Enzo, however, how many people that are willing to pay that much for a car want one that has been wrecked? It’s intrinsic value is less, no way this event makes up for that type of value.
He has to have at least owned a few Ferraris before, otherwise Ferrari would not have let him purchase the Enzo. (see the MPSIMS thread if you doubt this).
The dumb-shit owner that let anyone drive that car, let alone such a rare and valuable car, will surely feel the wrath of the insurance policy he had out on his liability. Of course he had it insured, and of course the insurance company will try their best to make his life hell until the issue is resolved. That dude is in a world of hurt. Considering the likely scenario that his rates will go way up for having lent his car to a practical stranger, and the presumed fact that he owns at least a few other high-end sports cars, this guy is gonna take quite a hit.
Unless you’ve had professional training for ultra high performance race cars, you are practically in the same boat as Eddie. You don’t drive a car like that ever without training specific to that sort of vehicle. Unless of course, you’re Bam Margera, in which case you can buy a few Lamborghinis, cut one up with a sawzall, drag stuff around with them, and various other sacrileges that make me hate rich idiots. That poor, poor, Murcielago.
A tired, shopworn, obnoxious, patently ridiculous joke. Which, I might add, isn’t even funny.
If you had stuck with that I might not have troubled myself. Post 6 demonstrates that you are perfectly capable of making asinine but innocuous posts. Your second effort demonstrated a concerted effort at calling attention to your inanity. I gave you the attention you obviously wanted, and now you’re mad at me? I’d rather you just thanked me for it.
