Subject: Wrecked special vehicles
24/01/2016 @ 08:06:30: Baube: Wrecked special vehicles
It all starts on Wikipedia. Wanted to search for wikicars from the search engine. Not really found it ( don't know what i did wrong ) but before closing it, saw a result that was saying : Ferrari GTO crashed in Montreal.
When i clicked on it, it sent me to http://www.wreckedexotics.com/

Exotics and rare vehicles lovers might be offended by what they are showing, including http://www.wreckedexotics.com/accident/6465?c=mo107. Is it even a real one ? One of the mythic Porsche 959 in Montreal ? :eek:

All i know is now i want to :cry: on those specials vehicles that did not deserved such an ending... and in some case did not deserved a bad driver who can't drive them correctly ( i know, accidents happens but some are just asking for it one day or another... :halalala: )
24/01/2016 @ 10:33:49: antp: Wrecked special vehicles
That site is rather known since long time, I'm surprised you didn't know it (I think I know it since I started to go on internet 15 years ago)
24/01/2016 @ 15:06:40: ingo: Wrecked special vehicles
@Baube: well, these incidents are not really uncommon. Actually a plenty of high-end cars were crashed, because the drivers cannot handle them.

Headline: "The 650.000 € test drive":

http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/unfall-in-pleidelsheim-mercedes-300-sl-erleidet-totalschaden-a-891281.html

done by a young mechanic of a classic car restoration garage




In summer 2013 two young blokes have smashed such a car (they got it for a test drive) just besides my village:

http://www.dorstenerzeitung.de/staedte/dorsten/Zwei-Schwerverletzte-Ferrari-flog-bei-Unfall-auf-der-A-31-mehrere-Meter-durch-die-Luft;art914,2033036

it was not just a simple Ferarri, it was a

http://www.edo-competition.de/cars/ferrari/ferrari-599-630-gtb/


Just a few weeks ago on the other side of my village.

http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-wesel-hamminkeln-und-schermbeck/ferrari-brennt-nach-unfall-auf-a3-aus-zwei-tote-id11270936.html

Two Dutch guys were killed in their Ferrari, after it crashed on the wet Autobahn into the woods and burnt down.


Last September in Cologne during an illegal streetrace:

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article146354067/22-Jaehriger-faehrt-200-000-Euro-Ferrari-zu-Schrott.html


Annother bloke tried to reach the top speed of 300 km/h:

http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Das-haette-auch-anders-ausgehen-koennen


A Swiss Ferrari-driver smashed into a small car, which was the last car of a traffic file on the Autobahn, two people of the four in the small car were killed:

http://www.mz-web.de/image/view/2012/4/2/17132640,16275429,dmData,Der+Ferrari+an+der+Unfallst- elle+2529.jpg


I just have googled "Ferrari Unfall" and these were only the first links. If you would do the same with "Lamborghini" or others, you will get similar results.


When I was a young trainee in my company -an insurance, as I already told- one of our internal teachers told us, that in 1989 there were seven Ferrari F40 registrated in Germany. Accidentally three of them were fully insured at my company - and two of these three F40 were totaled withing a few weeks by their overchallenged drivers...
This was very very expensive and has provoked the decision of our management, not to insure such high-end-premium cars any more.
24/01/2016 @ 19:52:19: Baube: Wrecked special vehicles
Probably i saw some pics from them and just didn't paid very much attention to the website they were from... No need to say that i prefer looking at them when they still in one piece... :wink:

Even celebrities crashes them, like Rowan Atkinson or Dany Heatley, a hockey player who crashed his Ferrari 360 Modena Spider and killed teammate and friend Dan Snyder

But celebrities or not, most of those crashes comes from the bad thinking ( usually done by bad drivers thinking they can control those cars in any situations ) that because the car can go high speeds, it can do it no matter weather or road condition/configuration . Some are real accidents, too, either caused by others or control loss after avoiding something on the road , etc


As for the ...... who do illegal street racing, then.... they asked for it ! :na:
( Of course, when innocents are killed by those dumb drivers, having some thoughts for them and their families )
05/02/2016 @ 20:53:42: ingo: Wrecked special vehicles
The owner of this burnt Lamborghini Gallardo proceed now against the authorized garage.

http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/lamborghini-gallardo-faengt-feuer-besitzer-verklagt-werkstatt-a-1073778.html

Doubtful (for me as an insurance's loss accessor), if he may be successful. He had no full insurance.
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