Bad crash this morning on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California..CHP estimates speed upwards of 200mph. Driver is still missing.
Another Enzo goes down...
Bad crash this morning on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California..CHP estimates speed upwards of 200mph. Driver is still missing.
good god
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damn ferrari drivers
2008 Scion xD (38mpg ftw!)
2005 Chevy 1500(For towing)
1991 5.0 lx(45,xxx original miles)
2000 DB8 GS-R ( Built and SOLD)
2001 Crown Vic(61,xxx original miles)
1997 Honda Accord Ex(sold)
1995 Nissan 240sx/se(Sold)
1995 Toyota Tercel(4EFTE Swapped)(Sold)
1991 VR4 1102/2000(Sold)
How the hell is the driver missing?
Yeah^^^Originally Posted by TheSnail
another person that doesn't deserve a car like that.
DAMN that sucks
damn, if people have that much money to just destroy, they can gladly give me some!
90 celica GT-FOUR
good lord...
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thats a damn shame
NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!
Val RIP
thats the thing with ferraris, they look good but are built like shit-they snap in half. Saw that on a ferrari that crashed here in atlanta a few years back, some hockey star was driving 80mph through a neighborhood and wrecked, broke into two separate pieces. Sucks though.
MUGEN/SPOON/BUDDY CLUB/FUNCTION FORM/TYPE R
No enigineering flaws here man, these cars are built the way they are for a reason- to save your ass in the event you do happen to wreck at triple digit speeds. Case in point, this driver is assumed to have fled by foot following the wreck. This likely wouldn't have been the case in any other type of car traveling at those speeds.
so was it stolen, wouldnt just make sense for the owner to just leave
2006 Evo IX - Bolt ons
yeah it would, some rich dude out in cali, doing near 200 in a rare ass car, and breaking it up down a road. I dont think a rich person would want those kinda news out on him!!!!!!!!
But they are going to know who he is anyways after the run plates and vins if they can find them.
not hard to scratch up the VIN with all the metal laying around you and grab the plates and run!!!!!
but then again it probably is stolen!!!!!!!
I doubt it happened like that, they would have had to run to far inbetween pieces of cars to get all the vins. Lol.
That'll buff right out...
2004.5 350z SS
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Yeah, just a little Bondo and touch up paint will do.
yeah i wonder how the driver is missing too
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_052110615.html
per some of the ferrari forums the driver was racing a mercedes slr when the car went airborne and clipped a power pole....at any rate, small story and video on this page, the driver is missing b/c he fled on foot the passenger in the enzo walked away w/ a cut lip...Dr. G hit it on the head....its like a f16 cockpit...the rear disenagrates away from the car but the cabin stay in tact protecting the driver and passenger
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-2004 Pontiac GTO - 530hp/625ft lbs - 10.62@130mph - Sold!
but still i dont think you could just walk away like nothing happen
per some of the ferrari forums the driver was racing a mercedes slr when the car went airborne and clipped a power pole....at any rate, small story and video on this page, the driver is missing b/c he fled on foot the passenger in the enzo walked away w/ a cut lip...Dr. G hit it on the head....its like a f16 cockpit...the rear disenagrates away from the car but the cabin stay in tact protecting the driver and passenger
...it's all made to break away, just like formula cockpits...if he had a direct hit on the "cabin" itself then he'd be having some serious issues about now or someone would be mistakingly searching for a VIN number on pieces of him.but still i dont think you could just walk away like nothing happen
I'm impressed with how it held up....i'd probably be out in the road with a battery and bottle of gas trying to get the engine to turn over
insane... that is all.
The driver was racing a Mercedes SLR
So Speedy, So Exclusive, So Expensive, So Totaled
By Bob Pool
Times Staff Writer
February 22, 2006
It was a SigAlert made for Malibu.
A red Ferrari Enzo — one of only 400 ever made and worth more than $1 million — broke apart Tuesday when it crested a hill on Pacific Coast Highway going 120 mph and slammed into a power pole.
The driver jumped out of the wreckage and ran into the canyon above, evading a three-hour search by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department helicopter and a mountain search-and-rescue team.
The crash did not result in serious injuries. But it sent shockwaves through both the tabloid and exotic car worlds as one group wondered if the driver was a celebrity and the other mourned the loss of a hand-built car revered by many as a work of art.
The car was certain to be owned by someone rich, if not famous. Actor Nicolas Cage owns one. And Malibu local Britney Spears has been chased in a Ferrari by the paparazzi.
But by day's end the tabloids were disappointed to learn that the demolished car had been owned by a Swedish millionaire without a Screen Actors Guild card.
Sheriff's investigators identified him as 44-year-old Stefan Eriksson, a Bel-Air resident. Officials are trying to determine whether he is the noted Swedish game designer whose firm, perhaps not surprisingly, was involved with car-racing themed video games.
Authorities said Eriksson said he was a passenger in the Ferrari, which he said was being driven by a German acquaintance he knew only as Dietrich.
One witness told deputies that the Ferrari appeared to be racing with a Mercedes-Benz SLR northbound along the coastal highway when the accident occurred about 6 a.m. west of Decker Road.
"It took out the pole, and part of the car went another 600 feet," Sheriff's Sgt. Philip Brooks said. "There were 1,200 feet of debris out there."
Eriksson told authorities that "Dietrich" ran up a hill toward the canyon road and disappeared. Brooks said detectives are far from convinced they have the whole story.
Eriksson "had a .09 blood-alcohol level, but if he's a passenger, that's OK," Brooks said. "But he had a bloody lip, and only the air bag on the driver's side had blood on it. The passenger-side air bag did not. My Scooby-Doo detectives are looking closely into that.
"Maybe the 'driver' had a friend who picked him up. Maybe he thumbed a ride," the sergeant added. "Maybe he was a ghost."
The crash left Ferrari fans anguished.
"I'm not surprised the driver ran away. He'd have been strangled by the owner," said Tex Otto, a Santa Monica graphic artist who edits two magazines for Ferrari owners.
"This will have a big impact on the local Ferrari community. This was not a car. It was a rolling art form."
Ferrari owner Chris Banning, a Beverly Hills writer who is finishing a book called the "Mulholland Experience" that will touch on the cult of sports car racing on that mountain roadway, characterized the Enzo's destruction as "a tremendous loss" to the automotive world.
"He destroyed one of the finest cars on Earth, maybe the finest. It's like taking a Van Gogh painting and burning it," said Banning, who is a leader of the Ferrari Owners Club.
Gil Lucero, a Mountain View telecommunications company executive who is president and Pacific region chairman of the Ferrari Club of America, said only 399 Enzos were at first scheduled to be assembled at the factory between 2002 and 2004, each priced at $670,000.
But a final car was built and donated to Pope John Paul II and later sold to raise $1,275,000 million for charity, Lucero said.
"It's a shame this one is gone forever. When one of these is lost, it reverberates through the whole exotic car world," Lucero said.
Ferrari fan Wally Clark, a Villa Park insurance broker who owns two Ferraris — neither of which is an Enzo — said used Enzos fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million.
"I think the price went up another $100,000 with today's crash," he said.
The Enzo model "is a very serious car" whose 660-horsepower V-12 engine can accelerate from zero to 65 mph in about four seconds, Clark said. It can exceed 217 mph.
"They'll burn rubber in every gear. You need to know what you're doing if you drive them on the street. You can't be blowing past people at 180 miles per hour on the freeway. You'll cause chain-reaction crashes behind you. I don't know who the yahoos were in it. It's a damn good thing they weren't killed."
Die-hard Ferrari aficionados who viewed TV news footage of the crash said the Enzo's driver-safety system performed exactly as it was designed to.
"The car has a carbon-fiber tub seating area. The driver's compartment is made of this very tough, lightweight carbon composite and has tremendous seats that really hold you in place," said Times automobile critic Dan Neil, who drove an Enzo at Ferrari's plant in Italy.
"They're very unforgiving cars. High performance but merciless," Neil said.
Websites devoted to exotic cars followed crash developments breathlessly through the day, even posting digital photos and eyewitness accounts sent in by people who passed by the wreck.
Brooks said that no arrests had been made and that little was known about Eriksson. Detectives were also trying to determine whether he was the Stefan Eriksson who in the past has raced Ferraris on European tracks.
The Sheriff's Department impounded the shredded remains of the Ferrari as evidence. But Brooks said he retrieved one souvenir from the side of the road.
"I have the mirror from the car," he joked. "It's shattered, but I think it's worth $5,000. I'm going to hang onto it."
Detectives are also trying to find the driver of the Mercedes that they think was dueling the Enzo.
DAMN!!!!
The little news video said that the owner of the car was the pass. who was still at the scene. He told police that someone(some german) was driving and fled. They don't believe him though as both airbags blew but the blood was only on the drivers side one and the guys face was bloody. He was also legally drunk.
dumb azzzz
About to approach beast mode
cmon man i dont know why anyone is gettin on the guy for doing it, i mean if i had one i would have to hit 200 at least once.. But running....thats foolish. I wonder if he won?
I can't wait for the motor to show up on Ebay...lol
that sucks
posted by 01dc2 jdm
its just a vtack engine.
damn. the cockpit is suprising intact!
just out of curiousity how many of these were produced?? i dont feel like google searching...
400damn. the cockpit is suprising intact!
just out of curiousity how many of these were produced?? i dont feel like google searching...
prec'ate it.
fairly rare then. well... theres 399 at most. im sure there are others destroyed.
i can do that .......lol
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