WOW Ferrari Enzo _____Half Off!!!

[underpants]

Not the price...the Ferrari :bounce:


A Los Angeles County sheriff inspects the wreckage of a rare Ferrari Enzo that crashed on the Pacific Coast Highway Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in Malibu, Calif. The red Ferrari, estimated to be worth more than $1 million, was going at least 100 mph when the driver lost control and struck a power pole, investigators said. Sheriff's investigators identified the owner as Stefan Ericksson, 44, of Bel Air, who escaped the wreck with only a cut lip. (AP Photo/Hanz Laetz)

[DS1]

1. meh, it's just a scratch

[XemaSab]

2. That'll buff out

[Redstone]

3. AND, he said he wasn't driving; that there was some German guy

driving named Dieter or something, and that the German guy ran away into the hills after the accident. The cops ACTUALLY BOUGHT THIS despite the guy blowing .09 on the drunk-o-balloon, and searched for the mythical German-in-the-hills for THREE HOURS before giving up.

I shit you not.

Redstone

[LeftyMom]

6. The moral of the story:

If you can afford a million dollar car, the police will bend over backward to kiss your ass. If he was driving a '87 Cutlass he'd still be in jail.

[redqueen]

8. Yup!

Makes it really hard not to just think "fuck the rich" all the damn time.

:mad:

[underpants]

7. found an article (with video) on it 162 MPH!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/28/national/main1352287.shtml

[MissB]

13. You serious?

Holy fucking shit.

[UCLA02]

28. Much like a case I had a few months ago. Same excuse.

Our local cops arrested this guy for DUI in the middle of the Mojave desert here in California where his car had flipped, with nobody around for miles. Told the local fire department on scene that he swerved to avoid "a person or a rabbit" (no shit) and flipped off the road. When the highway patrol showed up a few minutes later, he said his freind "Kevin" was driving and ran off into the desert.

I had to argue against his suppression motion claiming there was no probable cause to arrest him since 1) the cop didn't see him driving, an obvious element of the crime of DUI, and 2) that there was no evidence that the car had been flipped into that location by a "drunk" driver, which our genius was when arrested.

So your "I shit you not" discliamer was not necessary to me. ;-)

[underpants]

35. As a lawyer once told me

NOTE:This is from back in the days of my youth in mostly liquid form.

If you get in a wreck and no one else is involved get out of the car and take the keys out of the ignition. Admit to NOTHING. They have to see you with the keys in the ignition to charge you. He also recommended to all his friends who carried on in the dark hours and such to keep a bottle of some sort of liquor in the car with them. If they got stopped just down in as the cop neared the door. They couldn't prove how drunk you were beforehand (as noted in an op/ed piece this is probably why Cheney had himself a drink while his shooting victim was on the way to ICU). Anyway he always said that of course you shouldn't drink and drive ...and then bought the next round. God am I so glad I got out of that time not hurting anyone.

Okay about your post below. I must have been in an LA of another dimensia. My wife (now) and I were out there in Feb.of 2002. She was there for work and so I joined her and stayed in Marina Del Ray. We got a rental and I basically drove a whole lap around LA (if I looked at a map I could tell you the routes I took) in about 2 hours. THis was midday but I never had any problem with traffic in LA except maybe on one ave. (passed by the Flynt publishing and the Grammy organization).

I could go on but I found LA traffic not so bad at all. I proposed at Gladstones the day after Valentine's Day at sunset how fucking romantic is THAT?

Oh saw JEan Claude Vandamme at a stop light and saw John Kerry coming out of meeting with Rupert Murdoch on the Fox lot.

[azmouse]

4. I wish I could feel sorry for someone with a million $ car....

but I can't. Especially when it sounds like the wreck was his own stupid fault.

[terrya]

5. Agreed.

Sorry, I can't summon any sympathy for this guy.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. See, that's why...

people who don't actually know how to drive a car at high speed shouldn't be allowed to own vehicles like that. Middle-aged entertainment industry exec gets a Ferrari because he's experiencing a midlife crisis, and wrecks it thanks to his middle-aged, untrained reflexes and a stupid decision to take it above 150 mph on a coast road...what a moron.

[jmowreader]

10. Ferrari at least tried to discourage that with the Enzos

They did two things:

* you had to have a buttload of money

and

* you had to be a Ferrari owner already

to buy one of those cars. I guess they figured that if you really had a million dollars to spend on a car and that you already had a Ferrari, you'd know how to drive the shit out of it.

[Orsino]

11. From the looks of the picture...

...the shit has been driven out of it. :toast:

[wallwriter]

22. It wasn't the driving. It was the sudden stop.

[jmowreader]

24. No, it was more like the NDMF behind the wheel

NDMF: non-driving motherfucker.

[Blue_Tires]

32. lol...i need to remember that one!

[IronLionZion]

20. But 149 mph would be just peachy

actually no one should drive at that speed on a public road. There are plenty of race tracks in America.

[Dukkha]

12. makes me think of that Family Guy episode

where Peter Griffin wrecks his "penis car"

Ow, my pride!

[flvegan]

14. A superior automobile. Ferrari, for better or worse

and with a loss (or insured loss of more shekels than most of us will ever see) held up such that a cut lip is the only injury. The car was halved, folks, at over 100mph. A Ferrari, halved as such, means that the entire engine, etc, is now gone (rear engine).

Lucky, considering Ford and GM are still settling lawsuits over folks burning to death, involved in lesser accidents.

[ContraBass Black]

15. Is it good design, or luck?

I'd say luck.

[DS1]

16. Both, obviously

Hit a telephone pole sideways and the frame was so stiff it just snapped, which relieved a lot of energy instead of having the passengers absorb it.

Now, if it had hit 3 feet forward, there'd be two dead people.

[ContraBass Black]

17. I would think that stiffness was for handling, not safety.

and I don't buy the Dietrick story.

[DS1]

19. I'm not debating either of those points

[wallwriter]

23. Designed for both.

Ferrari's Grand Prix cars are driven very, very fast by drivers who get paid an enormous amount to do so. Their safety is in the comapny's interest.

[ContraBass Black]

25. I'm trying to think of a situation in which an F1 car would take a

broadside impact at one point rather than all across.

Also, I didn't realize the cockpit of an Enzo was a breakaway pod like an F1 car.

[flvegan]

18. I'd say good design.

Ferrari doesn't design cars for a tour on the PCH in Cali. That'd be like saying, "oh, hey, NASCAR driver Joe Schlabotnik survived a 180 mph spin into a wall because of luck."

[ContraBass Black]

21. Is the impact of hitting a pole just aft of the cockpit similar to

ohter impacts that are more likely?

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. He was... half off

He didn't know what he was capable of
The piss is interesting now


A shiny quarter to whomever knows that song. ;)

[UCLA02]

27. Yeah, PCH is a bitch.

Can't believe he got it up that fast in daylight. There is rarely a good time to be on PCH to avoid shit traffic thru Malibu.

Serves the "conspicuous consumption" fucker right. Glad he wasn't hurt, tho.

Should have stuck closer to home in Bel Air. No straightaways to get up that fast.

[catzies]

29. I know several people who drove by it & scanned the roadside

looking for souvenir smithereens. :D It's about a 45 minute drive south.

It was the talk of my race shop for days.

[brook]

30. Ongoing story....

Law enforcement seems to have concluded that there was no German and there are also accusations that the Ferrarri was 'stolen' according to the Bank of Scotland.

some comments

As you can see, Eriksson was involved in Gizmo for gamers. Looks like he got his money & ran.

[Blue_Tires]

31. lol...the 'rich man's darwinizer'

almost strikes again....

who knew that going balls out with 660 HP and 3000 lbs on public streets could be dangerous??

imo, there needs to be better training for those that buy these supercars, i.e., mandatory sport driving school lessons or something...Far too many of these people buy cars like this just for the sheer bragging rights of saying 'x-amount of HP' when they pull up to the country club or dance club...

[reclinerhead]

36. I understand your point

I see your point. However, I would suggest that if you compared accident statistics for supercar owners against, say, station wagon owners, or compact car owners, you'd see that the numbers are much lower.

I presuppose that supercar owners are typically older, careful, and less prone to actually racing them. There are always exceptions, though.

And, in my opinion, the Enzo is not just a supercar that rich dudes can buy. It's more like a supercar of supercars. 400 made total, with the 400th car being given to Pope John Paul II and later auctioned for 1.2 million which was donated to charity. I bet few of these have made it to the US, instead ending up in Italian garages, and even fewer are driven regularly.

[XemaSab]

37. word.

[pinniped]

33. Good one.

I saw a wrecked one on ePay before.

That dude is an idiot. He could have had all the fun he wanted at the track. If he was too inept to handle high-speeds, he could let a 'real' driver ferry him around the track.

After Mike Tyson parked his Porsche into a tree, he had a dude drive him around.

[mikeytherat]

34. Coulda lapped it around Laguna Seca, but wrapped it around a pole instead

What a dork.

mikey_the_rat