Buying a brand-new Corvette Z06 should be a cause for celebration. But in the case of this poor man, his joyous occasion ended up becoming short-lived - thanks to his wife and her Hyundai Genesis.
Barely an hour after driving off with his new ride, the man’s precious Corvette was in the middle of a roadside accident thanks in large part to a combination of rain, traffic, and his wife’s reckless driving. The resulting carnage could end up costing the couple more than $26,000 in damages to the two vehicles.
The series of unfortunate events began when the couple left the Chevy dealership and ended up stuck in traffic along a rainy Massachusetts freeway. As the traffic began piling up, the husband decelerated his speed to queue up behind the other vehicles in the freeway. Unfortunately for him and his brand-new Z06, the wife, who was following behind in their 9-month old Genesis, wasn’t paying enough attention to the roads ahead and ended up ramming her car onto the back of the Z06, which, in turn, slid forward and hit the car directly in front of him.
It has been a while since Top Speed has reported anything about the KTM X-Bow, open air sports car with room for two. Unfortunately, the X-Bow that we are talking about today met its match when the driver took a curve too fast, dropping one wheel onto the grass and then subsequently lost control. The X-Bow went end over end three times before coming to rest with the shiny side up, albeit a little dirty.
The KTM X-Bow has a niche carved out for itself amongst speed junkies and lightweight performance driving enthusiasts. Similar to other minimalist sports cars like the Caterham and Ariel Atom, the X-Bow gets its appeal by being a stripped down racer offering an extremely favorable power to weight ratio and a wind in your face, formula type experience.
Now, modern passenger cars are loaded with safety features that rob gas mileage and ruin a vehicle’s nimble nature all in the name of saving lives. So when we look at lightweight roadsters like the KTM X-Bow, we have to wonder just how safe these fun to drive vehicles really are. Thankfully, the pilot who shot his X-Bow off the beaten path and then conducted some aerial acrobatics was able to walk away from the incident, although we can’t say the same about the car.
After a series of Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren F1 super cars catching fire, today tragedy strikes home, because it was an American icon of affordable speed that suffered the flaming fate of a group of unknown arsonists in the Ukraine. The fire left the front end as an unrecognizable pile of molten fiberglass and a front cross member, not even the LS1 could be saved from the American super car.
It seems that not only the streets car are catching on fire lately! The same flaming fate happened to this Chevrolet Corvette driver at a Sports Car Club of America event at Elkhart Lake’s Road America. Whatever it was that came loose underneath the car to start the mishap is still a mystery. What we do know is that unaware his fiberglass bodied race car was burning and his tires had melted, the driver when full speed into the turn and well just follow the link to see the slideshow.
What is it about supercars and fire that makes them so attracted to each other?
It was only a couple of weeks ago when we reported a McLaren F1 unexpectedly bursting into flames in California – prior to that, it was a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti in Moscow – that we have another exotic being engulfed in flames in the streets of Athens, Greece.
The cursed vehicle this time around is a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo that caught fire for no apparent reason. The people – a couple, to be exact - inside to the car were fortunate to have escaped unscathed. Their precious Gallardo, however, was left charred to the ground.
Now, if you’re a car lover, then we strongly caution you on looking at the pictures because, well, they’re beyond gruesome. Unlike the McLaren F1, the Gallardo was completely burnt so bad you’d be hard-pressed to recognize it, even after firefighters were able to control the flames shooting out of the vehicle. It’s like one of those CSI episodes you watch where you see a victim mutilated so bad, forensics have to rely on dental records to identify the person.
A Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera crashed at Knockhill Circuit in Fife, Scotland at the Scottish MRC Saloon and Sports Car Championship. The driver lost control over his car and smashed into the tires wall.
Before continue reading this post we have to warn you: if you suffer for a heart condition it is advised to go on to the next post. This video is guaranteed to make you feel bad! If just a few days ago you were astonished by the video of a burning Ferrari 612, today is time for a limited edition piece of history: a Ferrari Enzo was set ablaze in Okanagan Falls, BC.
The driver was behind the wheel of his supercar when the car caught on fire. Lucky for him, he was able to run out of the car before it was engulfed in flames, unfortunately he had to watch his baby destroyed by the fire!
In January of this year, footballer Cristiano Ronaldo had a nasty accident in a tunnel near Manchester Airport. Ronaldo’s Ferrari 599 GTB was written off and there was £20,000 in damage caused to the tunnel’s wall. After further investigation, police have determined that there was insufficient evidence to launch any prosecution. According to a police source quoted by the Telegraph, "Ronaldo said he simply lost control of the car and there were not enough independent witnesses to prosecute him for any driving offense."
This last round of the World Touring Car Championship was filled with plenty of racing incidents. However, there was one that stood above the rest. Usually the safety car comes out to calm down the field and restore order to the race, except this time the car with the amber lights on top became part of the action. Check out around 2:20 and then again at 3:00 to see what we mean.
If you remember the McLaren F1 that was destroyed by an engine fire from the other day, we now have video of the incident to show you. The owner lost $2.5 Million worth of super car in just 10 minutes. Now, if you have the heart, check the video to see what the car looked like after the flames went out.
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