Airport Fire Destroys $469K Custom Ferrari, Transporter Offers $46K

[Blue_Tires]

Airport Fire Destroys $469K Custom Ferrari, Transporter Offers $46K
A massive fire at London's Heathrow Airport last month claimed a $469K custom Ferrari 458 Italia being transported from Saudi Arabia to London. Now the company responsible for shipping it is only offering $46K for the damages.

The tale of the second scorched 458 Italia is a sad one. The car was purchased in February of this year in Saudi Arabia and loaded up with nearly every option Ferrari can throw at it. Add to that a custom $110,000 Dolce & Gabbana interior (a travesty in its own right) and you've got a roughly $469K Ferrari, according to the owner.

The car was shipped from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to London Heathrow via Emirates SkyCargo and was deposited in a warehouse on the airport property. You can see it burning to the ground below and know a small part of that smoke is a $100K D&G interior.



So sad. A rich guy loses his brand new Ferrari 458 Italia. It seems to be happening all the time. What's special here is Emirates SkyCargo is claiming they only have to pay $46,994 for it under the rules of the Montreal Convention, which covers air cargo transportation. Here's what the convention says:

"The liability of the carrier in the case of destruction, loss, damage or delay is limited to a sum of 17 Special Drawing Rights per kilogram, unless the consignor has made, at the time when the package was handed over to the carrier, a special declaration of interest in delivery at destination and has paid a supplementary sum if the case so requires."

http://jalopnik.com/5615772/airport-fire-destroys-469k-custom-ferrari-transporter-offers-46k?skyline=true&s=i

[Rosie1223]

1. Somewhere in Florida

a Vegan sheds a tear in his coffee.

[HopeHoops]

3. Oh, I'm sure he's one of the idiots who spends $12 on a cup of "whatever" at $tarbuck$.

I'm not kidding about the $12. On one of our trips down the PA turnpike, the kids had to pee so we hit the rest area before Breezewood (easier than getting OFF at Breezewood). My wife wanted coffee and $tarbuck$ was the only option. The idiot behind the counter was stumped when she asked for a small coffee - gave her a look like "what the fuck is that?"

The guy in front of her rifled off a list of shit he wanted in his and he might as well have been speaking in a native Inuit tongue. She didn't understand a word of it, but the word "coffee" wasn't among them. After she paid (still $2 or so) and left, that guy's wife confronted him and asked "so how much was THIS one?" in a tone that implied the guy had a problem. He replied, "only twelve bucks."

For a FUCKING CUP OF COFFEE?!?!?!?!

[Ikonoklast]

4. Uh, Rosie was referring to flvegan.

Ferraris do have a tendency to catch fire.

[HopeHoops]

5. I'll assume you aren't referring to "after a crash", but they do? I hadn't heard that.

[Ikonoklast]

7. Nah, spontaneous combustion.

Electrical fires resulting from shitty wiring is usually to blame.

[HopeHoops]

8. 1/2 $million for a car with shitty wiring? Wait, I've got a real similar story for you.

A buddy of mine from high school started working for a company in '81 or so that later changed its name to America Online. They offered a shitload of stock options and eight splits later he was a multi-millionaire. About ten years ago, or whenever they acquired Netscape, the corporate dickheads made a blanket decision - one half of a building would be shutdown and everyone in it would be canned. He was in that half.

So, at the age of 37 or 38, he retired. He had a house built in N. VA (Reston area) for about 1.5 million and spent another .5 million on the lot next to it to prevent another house from being built there.

Let's see now. He found a 1/2" crack in the concrete in the basement (covered by a thick low-pile rug). One of the outlets started smoking, but fortunately he knew which breaker it was on and shut it down. Turns out it was both wired wrong and had too high a total load on it - the overhead lights (2-stories up) used the same 15w circuit. He figured it out, but the electrician told him that was a pretty common problem in the houses in that development. The refrigerator was supposed to be a top-end model but apparently it was a counterfeit that leaked in a major way and required him to replace the hardwood flooring in the entire kitchen - which is huge. Oh, and the developer went out of business right after the houses were built.

Cost does not always equal quality.

Edited for spelling.

[HopeHoops]

2. He paid a half million for a fucking car and didn't bother with independent insurance? LOL!

His loss. For the cost of the upgrade to his stereo he probably could have insured it for the cost PLUS more for the delay time to have a replacement built. Silly bunt.

[Lance_Boyle]

6. Surely a half-million dollar car is insured for at least that amount...

if not, <NelsonMuntz>HA ha!</NelsonMuntz>