Ferrari Mailing List: Re: (NFC) Lamborghini crash

[Brian E. Buxton (BrianBuxton]

True, but how do you gauge how badly to wreck it and total it without 
hurting yourself?

B



Charles Perry wrote:

> If you read the comments below the TMZ article, I think one of those
> guys got it right:
>
> "Thanks to this terrible economy, people are abandoning horses they can
> no longer afford, purposely walking away from expensive homes, and
> now.... crashing cars to get the insurance payouts to settle the loan."
>
> Not that it's impossible to do something stupid in so powerful a car on
> residential type streets, but I think more of this is coming. If you had
> a 6 month old F430 Spider that you had paid $250k for and was now worth
> $130k on the secondary market, that might be a fairly strong motivation
> to have, as I believe Clyde calls it, an unexpected terrain contact.
>
> -- charles
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fellippe Galletta [mailto:fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:13 PM
> To: Charles Perry
> Cc: The FerrariList
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] (NFC) Lamborghini crash
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Michael James
> <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Frankly, I liked the purple 25th Anniversary MUCH better.  I've seen 
> > better looking colors on a Saturn.
> >
> > M
> >    
>
>
> You mean 30th anniversary....SE30 Diablo ;)
>
> 25th was Countach, no special colors.
>
> Funny thing is I was going to post this video here from youtube, then
> decided not to. Then the owner asked the guy to take the video down, and
> now TMZ's got it.....f'ed up!!!
>
> Once it's in TMZ's hands, it's already slanted to demonize the people in
> the video, sadly. But in this case it might be deserved.
>
> Guys, what is with all these 4wd Lambos getting wrecked?.....They say
> they put 4wd to save their drivers and still these cars getting smashed
> to pieces. I've seen two other videos were these cars spun out on the
> street at not a super high rate of speed.....mind boggling.
>
> Let's keep this to a 4wd discussion...no need for this to be a "marque
> attack". :)
>
> FG
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