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Old 02-22-2006, 09:52 AM   #1
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A disgraced Swedish playboy crashes his $1 million car on the streets of LA . . . . photo gallery too.

Police are amused because a chronic pain in the butt might be off the streets.

Also, there aren't many cars in the world where other owners are hoping you crash so it drives the value of their own surviving cars higher . . . .

"This is the pinnacle of Ferrari automobiles - and just about any automobile produced today," said Dustin Troyan, who hosts car shows every Sunday at Village Coffee Roaster in Woodland Hills.


"This is the best. It has incorporated a lot of Formula One technology into a drivable car. This is a work of art. With one less, the value of every other Enzo just went up."

Like F1 race cars, the Enzo is designed to be able to withstand high-speed crashes, experts said. Tuesday, it performed just as advertised - the carbon fiber body disintegrated around the cabin, totaling the car but leaving its passenger nearly unharmed.
"To cut it in half like that is a very significant impact, and to have people walk away, it shows how safe these cars really are," said James Del Pozzo, general sales manager at Ferrari of Beverly Hills. "It's very sad. It is just a car, but at the same time, it's a very special car."

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Old 02-22-2006, 06:31 PM   #2
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A friend of mine deals Ferrari's and makes cleaning products for them and he is in an uproar over the whole thing. It really has sent shockwaves through this town anyway...

I might have seen him tear up a little....
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Old 02-22-2006, 07:12 PM   #3
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I came upon that accident on the way to work yesterday - I knew I was in for a long commute when I saw 6 helicopters hovering over the PCH. I can't believe the guy walked away from that - I thought for sure someone had died when I saw that thing ripped in half about 500 yards past the pole he hit. Crazy
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Old 02-22-2006, 07:22 PM   #4
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my dream car.. sad day.. now there are less than 390 left... this is not good at this rate there aren't going to be many left when i go to buy one...

Interesting side note about the enzo.. they built 399 orig. then they built #400 for the pope...
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Old 02-22-2006, 07:48 PM   #5
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It's funny how this guy is so rich that he could buy a car that would allow him to drive at insane (and illegal) speeds, but it also offer safety under those conditions.

And then oridinary people drive their ordinary cars at the speed limit, get in little fender benders, and often get serious injuries or even die.

I hope the accident made him fill his pants.
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Old 02-22-2006, 07:53 PM   #6
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The metro-sexual should have been dragged from this disaster and beaten to death big angry mobs of car lovers.
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Old 02-23-2006, 02:22 AM   #7
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The Swedes always blame the Germans.
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Old 02-23-2006, 03:37 PM   #8
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Interesting side note about the enzo.. they built 399 orig. then they built #400 for the pope...
Which he then auctioned for charity. Imagine the mad bitches he could've got while riding that thing around Vatican city.
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Old 02-23-2006, 03:45 PM   #9
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Which he then auctioned for charity. Imagine the mad bitches he could've got while riding that thing around Vatican city.
You don't think the pope-mobile is a babe magnet?

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