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.
Oops! Richard Hammond did it again! After he almost died in a 280 MPH dragster crash, he was now involved in a new super car crash. This time he was driving a £110,000 Morgan AeroMax supercar.
The incident happened in the village of Gloucestershire where another car braked suddenly. Richard hit the Nissan in front of him. According to a witness to the incident the car’s front was damaged in a pretty bad way.
"Everyone got out and exchanged details and there was some good-humoured banter exchanged by the drivers after they realized it was him." reported an onlooker.
The Aeromaxis is powered by a 4.8 Lliter BMW V8 engine and can hit a top speed of 170 MPH. But it seems that Richard was only able to enjoy his super car just for a few months!
Despite having already garnered a string of publicity for what seems like months now - including a stint as Bumblebee in the summer blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro was the subject of some unexpected bad news when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – or NHSTA – gave the Camaro a lower-than-expected four out of five stars rating for its front impact test.
While the Camaro did score a perfect five stars on its side impact test, the four-star rating comes as a bit of a blow for the American sports car, especially when you consider that its two main rivals, the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger, scored five out of five on their tests.
To the uninitiated, this rating system seems to be just a case of one brand having more stars than the other, but to those who care deeply about car safety, it’s a pretty significant discrepancy. According to the NHTSA, a car receives the full five stars means if it has a 10-percent or less chance of serious injury in the event an accident occurs, whereas a four-star rating means that there’s an 11- to 20-percent chance of serious injury in the same situation.
Our friends over at Wrecked Exotics never disappoint with their collections of the planet’s most unfortunate automobile owners. This week’s highlight is a once fabulous Ferrari F-430 that look like a bomb went off inside. The spider’s owner was going for a pleasant afternoon drive just outside of San Diego when inexplicable the car literally burst into flames. Fortunately no one was injured during the conflagration.
The second sad bit of news comes from the Autobahn, where an extremely rare Porsche 959 took quite a nasty spill. Fortunately it appears that the road going version of the car that won both the Paris Dakar Rally and it’s class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans looks to be reparable. When it was first introduced in 1986, the car’s 2.85 Liter twin turbo flat six cylinder engine made 444 HP and was able to propel the Porsche from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.6 seconds, run through the standing quarter mile in only 11.8 seconds and hit a top speed of 197 MPH. Performance figures that are impressive even by today’s standards, but even more immersive when they were introduced almost 25 years ago.
Last but not least was a lovely Lamborghini Gallardo that, like a few other raging bulls, just decided to start spitting flames from the engine bay.
We don’t know if there’s anything more sickening than crashing your car merely minutes after leaving the dealership. You spend thousands of dollars on a new set of wheels and you should be on top of the world, right?
This guy from Houston should be ecstatic. He just bought a 2009 Ford GT and was on his to brag to his buddies about his new ride when he inexplicably crashed his car on a telephone pole. The GT, which we can imagine still had that unmistakeable smell of a brand-new vehicle, sustained significant damage on the front.
We don’t know what the guy was doing when he collided with the pole but we’re certain that he probably wasn’t concentrating on the road. Maybe he was on the phone and bragging to his buddies about his new GT.
We can all take a good lesson from this unfortunate fellow. When you buy a car, it’s always a smart idea to bring it home first before deciding to crash it – on a telephone pole, no less.
It is always a shame when a classic high performance super car meets an unfortunate end; like the Bugatti EB110 that died in a Russian street race. Well today we have some more sad news for exclusive exotic super car enthusiasts, this time it was a Lamborghini Miura that went out in a blaze of glory.
According to the 47 year old German owner, he was driving home when he began to hear a cacophony of strange noises coming from the transversely mounted V12 behind his head. The car then caught on fire and even the help of benevolent motorists couldn’t put out the conflagration coming from underneath the Lamborghini’s engine cover.
The big question that remains is: is it possible to spare the sacrilege and repair this rare piece of Italian automobilia that was a slap in the face to Enzo Ferrari directly from Ferruccio himself?
Top Speed previously reported that racing driver and television host Tiff Needell and popular English television star, John Barrowman had been involved in a car accident in a rally prepped Subaru while filming a slot for the English automotive program Fifth Gear. Before we only had a few still images to show you, but today, Fifth Gear revealed the video of the crash.
Bugatti only produced 139 examples of the EB110 super car. Priced at $2 Million, this Bugatti EB is most definitely one of the most unique vehicles in the world. However, now there is one less in existence. One of them bit the dust during the 2009 Bavaria Moscow City Racing event held on the public streets around the Kremlin.
The accident took place during the second supercar parade with a Russian man behind the wheel with his "supermodel girlfriend" sitting in the passenger seat. Thankfully they are both O.K. However we cannot say the same about the car.
The EB110 is powered by a 3.5 Liter quad-turbo V12 that produces 542 HP which allows the vehicle to sprint from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.4 seconds and can hit a top speed of 213 MPH.
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