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According to our friends at Wrecked Exotics , this Ferrari 599 "tried to take a curve too fast late at night. Bounced off the guardrails until car was a total loss." Except for that glorious engine — which looks to us like it's just about ready for a late-night transplant into a LeMons car. Anyone want to try and take a shot at what you'd drop it between the rails of? [ Wrecked Exotics ]
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A couple of knuckleheads in the Australian town of Walkerville managed to wrap the front third of a Ferrari 360 Modena quite effectively around a telephone pole and walk away with only minor injuries. Eyewitnesses report the car was speeding around the local roads (surprise!) and as you can see, the eventual accident was pretty incredible, with the pole intruding to the point where it takes the space normally occupied by, say, the shifter over the transmission tunnel. With yesterday's Lamborghini Gallardo sliced in half width-wise and now a Ferrari split down the middle, it's like learning automotive biology by supercar dissection around here. ( Hat tip to half our readers for sending this in! ) galleryPost('ausferrariwreck', 6, 'Just Split It Down The Middle'); [ News.com.au ]
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Canton Center Road lies in the sleepy little Detroit suburb of Canton, and, aside from people wrecking brand new Ferrari F430 's outside of the Post Office, not much happens there. If you've never been to the little berg, the scene of this crash isn't surrounded by any curves, hills, trees, blocked views...or anything, really — just a couple of posts protecting a fire hydrant. Apparently that was enough of a target for this 430's driver after tangling with a Nissan Sentra, of all things. Must have been delivering express mail. galleryPost('f430canton', 3, 'Wrecked Ferrari F430'); [ WreckedExotics ]
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var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Five_Supercars_Worth_1_4_Million_Allegedly_Trashed_By_Drunk'; According to The Sun an unruly group of UK wedding guests spent this past weekend destroying five rented supercars valued at over $1.4 million. The carnage includes a Bentley Continental GT , a Ferrari F430 and three Lamborghini Gallardo Spyders. Although the details are still rather sketchy, here's what we've learned. The group of hoon-igans reportedly rented the cars for just under $10,000 apiece from Pearl Rentals of Wembley. The Sun claims the story is as follows: "a sharp-suited group of Asian-looking men...wrecked a Ferrari on Saturday after smashing into another of the cars. The Lamborghini — one of three rented — was totaled when it hit a tree in Bridgnorth, Shrops, on Sunday." Amid all the mashed-up metal, supposedly an Audi R8 escaped unscathed. New luxury triumphs again, apparently. We're also told UK cops are still trying to find the drivers...
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The new 2009 Ferrari California 's been spotted on its way out of what appears to have been a front-offset crash test. But don't shed a tear over this brightly-blue-painted California. It's died so that the rest of the fleet of Californias may live. Unfortunately, maybe we should still cry a tear because we already know they'll all more than likely end up living their miserable lives getting their passenger seats chewed up by the tiny dogs of their celebutard owners on the way to a Beverly Hills Botox parlor. Still, maybe we'll be seeing more crash pictures — from the Paparazzo — just as soon as the celebutards get their hands on 'em. [ Autogespot via AutoBlog ]
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Oh look, another Ferrari crash. Maybe we should have run this Monday when we were having our Maximum Ferrari Crash Morning but now that we look at it, maybe the owner of this 360 Modena just wanted to take it for a little swim. Or maybe he just couldn't find a car wash open late enough. [ Autogespot ]
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Continuing our Monday morning Ferrari smash-up meme , check out this Ferrari 575M spotted in L.A. looking like it was taken for a Ferris Bueller-style valet joyride. Unlike the mileage run-up in the movie, this 575M seems to have come back in a noticeably more Cameron Frye-like state of wellness. We'd hoped that Audi A8 from Brooklyn was a mere isolated instance of parking valet hoonage, but perhaps this incident demonstrates it can happen no matter the 'merican coast. Oh, and by the way, although we've got absolutely no proof parking attendants were the cause of this catastrophic waste of good Italian metal, we've also got absolutely no proof they weren't the cause. Take that, journalistic standards! [ Hat tip to Anthony! ]
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Japan's Shizuoka province has a brand new way to spider your Ferrari F355. Leave your Sawzall at home, folks. Instead, slide it sideways under a highway restraining barrier. Just don't forget to duck. Seriously — how did the driver and passenger escape this wreck with their heads, shoulders, knees and toes all still attached? ( Hat tip to Mark and Rahat! ) [ JapanToday ]
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newVideoPlayer("FerrariAusCrash_Jalop.flv", 494, 400,""); It's happened time and time again, and it will continue to happen until the end of days. A jumpy teenager has a crazy idea, perhaps induced by peer-pressure, to sneak the old man's car out for a late night joyride. As Jalops, we've likely all put ourselves in such a situation. In retrospect, we're able to look back at it as a right of passage into man hoon hood, but for this Aussie boy, it may be a while before he will fully appreciate the accomplishment of crashing his dad's Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale, though never being able to see daylight may accelerate that process. [via AOL ] Hat Tip to Andy and Matt!
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Take the now infamous Stefan Eriksson Ferrari Enzo Crash , an Enzo model kit and a lot of free time and you get this lovingly detailed, expertly recreated and irrepressibly awesome diorama. That it came from Jalopnik reader/commenter HansStuckJr just makes it that much cooler. Photos of the original crash and photos of the recreation below, as well as the full details about this masterpiece below the jump. galleryPost('enzocrash', 3, 'Original Ferrari Enzo Crash');galleryPost('EnzoCrashModel', 9, 'Model Recreation Of Ferrari Enzo Crash'); I used the Tamiya Enzo kit, along with the Scale Motorsports detail set (carbon fiber decals, photoetched parts). The wheels are from a Tamiya Opel Calibra DTM kit, the airbags are medical tape and the firewall insulation is foil from a cigarette pack. I displayed the model at the 2007 NNL East in Parsippany, NJ. "NNL" stands for "Nameless National Luminaries" and references an editorial written in a...
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newVideoPlayer("berlinettacrash_jalopnik.flv", 475, 376,"");We at Jalopnik have sort of become connoisseurs of the Ferrari crash. And while the Eddie Griffith Enzo Crash may be considered an enjoyable appetizer and the the original Ferrari Enzo crash the piece d'resistance , this video of a dumbass in an F355 is merely a refreshing Apéritif . You can do burnouts? Cool, so could my old Taurus. (Moderately NSFW Language) [Source: YouTube ]
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Everyone knows about our love of the Enzo. How many websites have a car-crush so hard it actually necessitated creation of a t-shirt to do our college try best at saving the few remaining noble founder name-sake prancing stallions still left. Fortunately, despite the necessary asshattery required to crash your Ferrari Testarossa on a Madrid street -- the T-rossa ain't quite close enough to extinction yet to warrant a specific t-shirt for his or her efforts. However, the catch-all " I Am Hoon of the Day " would fit just perfectly wethinks. [ Colmenarejo via Motorpasion via Carscoop ] galleryPost('FerrariMadridCrash', 4, 'Ferrari Crash In Madrid');
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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne is just fine today after a crash in Switzerland's canton Solothurn. The boss was reportedly traveling at around 60 miles per hour in a 599 GTB, when he rear-ended a Renault driven by an elderly motorist on the A1 motorway. According to a report, the impact caused the Ferrari's airbags to blow up, blocking Marchionne's sight. Subsequently, he lost control and slammed into crash barriers. Police say Marchionne had been unable to slow the car in time for an unexpected traffic jam. No one was hurt, but the $275,000 car was totaled. Marchionne later blamed the crash on Italy's pro-union political climate, but also raised Fiat's profit forecast. (Thanks to David for the tip.) [ Reuters via Swissjourno's Weblog ]
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