The Gumball 3000 is a modern day version of the classic Cannonball cross country race that not only takes place here in the U.S. but also in countries around the world. The members of the more money than brains club start off in Los Angeles and then make their way through sin city and across the midwest before coming to an end at the tip of the Florida peninsula in Miami. At least that was the plan, unfortunately for this Aston Martin DB9 owner, the last leg of the trip included a stop at the freshly repaved Palm Beach International Raceway.
The DB9 driver’s fun at the track was short lived, after going into a turn a little too hot, James Bond’s ride of choice ended up in the tire wall doing a number on the front end and completely taking out the left front corner of the car. Despite the damage the wall of rubber did its job and the Aston’s driver was able to walk away unscathed.
However according to our friends at Wrecked Exotics the rumor is that the Aston Martin DB9 wasn’t really the driver’s at all, some have said that it was a rental. We just hope he took out the $5 insurance.
For every person in the world that hits the lottery, there’s one on the other side of the spectrum that just can’t buy any luck.
Unfortunately, for this poor South Korean man, he’s probably wishing by now that he wasn’t at the wrong place at the wrong time. While driving along the highways of South Korea in his Hyundai Sonata, the man came across a flatbed truck with a 2009 Lamborghini Murcielago LP-670 safely stowed in the back. Rather than keep his distance from the ultra-expensive supercar, he instead crashed his Sonata into it.
To be fair, he probably didn’t mean to do it. Maybe he was mesmerized by the car – who wouldn’t - and forgot that he was about to hit it. In any case, the poor fellow is being ordered to pay for the car, which in South Korea costs at about $750,000. The guy does get some sort of relief because his insurance would pick up $100,000 of the tab. As for the remaining $650,000, that’s coming out of his own pocket.
There’s no worse way to crash a supercar than what this poor English guy had to go through.
In what was supposed to be just a leisurely drive around Maidenhead, UK in his ’97 Ferrari F355 Spider, the unfortunate fellow ended up crashing his car after swerving to avoid hitting…a fox?!
You read that right. The beautiful Prancing Horse ended up becoming mangled beyond repair. Now, we’re trying to figure out swerving to avoid hitting a fox could end up destroying this F355 Spider to the extent the pictures are showing us. To the best of our sleuthing abilities, we’re guessing that the car skidded out of control and hit more than just one really sturdy object before stopping in a twisted heap.
We love our animals over here at Topspeed, but it’s easy to sympathize with the poor guy. The only way he feels good about this is if he considers foxes as reincarnated deities of a higher order. We highly doubt it, though.
When we showed you the $8 million 1958 Ferrari 250 TR hit the tire wall at Laguna Seca over the weekend, all our evidences were constricted to photographs. But now, thanks to videos captured by those who were at the race, we now have video evidence of exactly what happened to David Love’s obscenely expensive ride.
We’ve seen a lot of cars that crash in races over the years but not to the extent of this one. And it’s not because of the damage either, which if you look at the photos we showed, isn’t all that much – a few detailing tweaks here and there and banging sheet metals should do the trick. This car crash is significant because, well, the car that got introduced into the tire wall is one of the most expensive cars in the history of the world. One even got sold a few months ago for a cool $12 million!
While the video does give chills down our spines, we’re still compelled to show this to you guys. After all, how often do you see a car that can be sold for about four Bugatti Veyrons skirt the gravel and crash into a tire wall?
Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo has always been at the forefront of video game realism when it comes to how the virtual machines are able to go, turn and stop like their production versions; however there has always been one thing that the Play Station based automobiles wouldn’t ever do was take a hit like the real thing. So when Kazunori Yamauchi set out to create the fifth installment of the Gran Turismo franchise he vowed that this version would finally include crash damage as we can see by the poor display of finesse by the person holding the controller of this rally prepped STi. By the looks of things, despite the drastic change in the car’s aerodynamics hasn’t affected the car’s speed so much as the poor driving.
Our friends at Autoblog were fortunate – or unfortunate, depending on how you can stomach a multi-million dollar car getting gslammed in a tire wall– to capture a staggeringly expensive Ferrari 250 TR run a few laps at the Laguna Seca Speedway.
For those who don’t have any idea just how expensive a Ferrari 250 TR really is, consider that just a few months ago, one such model was sold at an auction for over $12 million dollars, making it the most expensive car in history. So you’d expect that the owner of this particular 250 TR would be extra careful running it around Laguna Seca’s notorious track, maybe take it out for a leisurely cruise in front of gawking spectators.
Apparently, the owner had other ideas in mind. Whether or not he was just showing off his car or he completely lost his mind, the tore up the track and ended up ramming his $8 million dollar ride into a tire wall. We’re beyond speechless.
Mama always told us to be careful when driving our cars while crossing an intersection, or in this case, the train tracks.
This poor guy from Sherman, Texas probably figured that his super car could get across the tracks unscathed. He was wrong, and his beautiful ride paid a pretty steep price.
That heap of metal you’re looking at was once a shiny and glittering Ferrari 550 Maranello. But after getting slammed a train crossing, well, it doesn’t look as shiny and glittery as it used to be. Fortunately for the poor guy, he managed to escape with only a few injuries.
As for his ride?
The front has been reduced to a twisted heap and if not for that Prancing Horse badge on the rear that somehow remained intact, then nobody would’ve guessed that this car is – or was – a Ferrari.
Is it just us or does it seem that Lamborghini is forever jinxed to have some of the worst owners in the world?
We talk about a lot of exotics getting wrecked and we realized that the number of Lamborghinis that gets involved in an accident - whether it gets totalled or the freak occasion that it inexplicably bursts into flames – is far more frequent than any other exotic car out there.
This time around, another Lamborghini Gallardo crashed when its driver lost control of his car while speeding along the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. The driver, who fortunately escaped from the crash unscathed, crashed his Gallardo after hitting a pavement and an electric cabinet, which, ultimately resulted in his car’s suspension getting destroyed and a number of other damages, including one of the rear tires getting bent from its bearing.
We know it’s cool to own a Lamborghini, but it’s always cooler if you know how to take good care of it.
Just the other day we reported about a Porsche Carrera GTthat caught fire at the track in Shanghai, today we have reports of another exotic super car that went up in flames and down in a blaze of glory. The owner of this particular Lamborghini Gallardo wasn’t as fortunate as the Carrera’s, as you can see by the pile of molten metal and general lack of a body. Like the Porsche owner, the incident took place while the owner was pushing his speed machine to the limit on a controlled closed environment, except that on the Nürburgring’s 12.9 mile Nordschleife circuit, the corner workers are spaced a little further apart.
As we can see from the photo the fire was pretty bad and the car is now nearly unrecognizable. We just hope the driver is ok.
It appears that more and more super cars are turning themselves into BBQ pits. While Californians are roasting marshmallows over million dollar automobiles like the McLaren F1 and Ferrari F-430, in China it would seem that they prefer to use something a little more German. This time it was a Porsche Carrera GT that blew a fuse and spontaneously combusted in Shanghai. At least the car happened to be on a circuit at the time, where a couple of valiant corner workers were on hand with plenty of fire extinguishers.
One might argue that with the recent rise of super car conflagrations combined with the current economic downturn could lead speculators to believe that perhaps some of these open fires were owner motivated in an attempt to turn an expensive toy into a liquid asset. However, even if the reason for the Porsche’s fire remains unknown. Due to the track day situation we can assume that it was just a severely overheated engine. Either way, the men with the fire extinguishers have inadvertently proved that the black Carrera GT looks good with a white top and matching rims.
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