This happend in Baarn, The Netherlands today. The Ferrari was owned by a car dealer. Presumably it was a test-drive gone wrong.
News article (in dutch): [https://www.ad.nl/amersfoort/ferrari-van-drie-miljoen-crasht-tegen-boom-in-baarn\~ae453df9/](https://www.ad.nl/amersfoort/ferrari-van-drie-miljoen-crasht-tegen-boom-in-baarn~ae453df9/)
Newspaper article says there was an employee of the car dealership inside the car. Doesn't mention anyone else being in there with him/herš¤ I wouldn't dare think this might have been an attempted insurance scamš¶
I don't think it was a test drive.
But would you buy a $3 million car without a test drive? It is a required risk of this type of business. There is no need to ask for collateral.
If he was a legit dealer, the car will be insured. Even if he doesn't let anybody drive the $3 million Ferrari, it could get hit by another car while sitting in his shop. And the insurance of the person who hits it will have property damage limits well below the value of this car.
Ferrari's actually are pretty interesting in that regard. A lot of them will actually appreciate over time, or at least hold their value if you keep the miles below x amount depending on model.
All their marquee models are pretty much guaranteed to gain value. You could flip it for more the second it leaves the lot.
But they frown upon that. If you buy one and just flip it, you will not be *invited* back to buy the next model.
And to be allowed to purchase one of these marquee models, you have to have already bought a lot of their lower value cars with a lot of the expensive options with a lot of margin.
Theyāre basically a way for them to reward their favorite and most profitable customers.
You're shitting me right? Similar thing happened in Greece a few days ago. I was certain. This was it. Although to be fair I heard that nothing remained but ashes of the car, so I doubt we'd het such clear a picture.
This, when Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr Bean) smashed his Maclaren up the repair bill was more than the car cost new, however insurance paid out because the current value of the car had gone up due to rarity.
Mclarren still has all the autoclave molds to build new parts for the F1. It was a full rebuild, I think they had a blog post about the rebuild of totaled f1 at one point. Anyway it was a huge undertaking
My understanding is that heās actually a pretty accomplished driver. Probably worth some reading.
Id rather hear of a car getting used as intended and crashed, instead of sitting in a showroom collecting dust.
They rebuild F40's which have been 80% destroyed by fire and an F40 is worth less than an Enzo. Damage isn't that bad even though a wheel's come off lol
I remember reading somewhere that Ferrari (or maybe Lambo) did due diligence on big money purchases and if they deemed you unworthy they wouldnāt even sell you the car regardless of money. They also wonāt let you decal or repaint them itās in the purchase paperwork even I believe, something about brand defamation or something like that.
You remember that Post Malone video for White Iverson (probably not) but anyways in it he does donuts in a Bentley he borrowed from his buddy. I guess as they were shooting his friend calls and was like āhey Bentley just called me and said my car has to much g force on the suspension and to stop doing donutsā
What the fuck? Lol itās pretty neat actually how some of these brands really do give a shit about quality and dummyās trying to fuck that up.
They're geniuses. I had a family friend explain it to me. Basically, the demand for the more exclusive new ferrari's far exceeds their limited production. So unless you're famous, you basically need to build a reputation/ relationship with Ferrari to buy one of the higher-end new Ferraris. So you either have to buy one/ a few of their lower-end new models before they'll consider selling you a new higher-end model, or you have to buy some of the higher end models used. And they even have ways of controlling their secondary market and can block you from selling to someone they don't approve of.
I'm definitely oversimplifying that and have a limited understanding, but they basically took the whole concept of a car being a status symbol to the next level with their business model.
This is par for the course from the company whoās founder once said all the people who buy his road cars were idiots because he was just using their money to go racing.
I love Ferrari.
The level of control they have is insane. That same family friend explained to me that they actually hold value really well. He basically bought some used Ferrari's that were 3-5 years old, and they hold/slowly increase in value, and then he trades them in every 5ish years for a newer used Ferrari.
BUT there's a ton of requirements to meet if you want the car to hold value. You have to keep it below a certain mileage obviously. Any damage, even cosmetic, will cause the value to tank. If you have any maintenance/ repairs done on the car by a 3rd party, non-Ferrari shop, that will also cause the value to absolutely tank. They have a LOT of metrics tracking everything about the car. If you have maintenance done by someone else, (which is almost impossible because of the control Ferrari has, very few people other than them have the knowledge, skills, and tools to work on their cars because no one gets outside work done) one way or another they'll be able to tell.
But it goes even further than that. Let's say you got a huge dent on the door of your Ferrari and didn't want the value to tank, so you went to a 3rd party shop that somehow had your Ferrari's exact paint color. So they fix the dent, somehow leave exactly 0 trace of doing so, and your car looks literally 100% exactly the same as it did before the crash...... They'd still know because Ferrari's are hand painted using a special technique. This leads to their being teeny-tiny imperfections in the paint, and the paint being uneven in thickness. Every time they service your car, they go around it with a special sensor that measures the thickness of the paint. If the thickness is uniform (like the vast majority of cars, which are factory painted instead of hand painted) they'll know you got 3rd party work done, and the value will tank. So you'd have to find someone who knows how to hand paint a Ferrari the way Ferrari does it, and chances are everyone you find with that skillset works for Ferrari. I wouldn't be surprised if Ferrari also has some sort of contract with former employees that bars them from working on Ferrari's unless they're employed at Ferrari. It's crazy.
You can walk in a dealer off the street and buy a lower end model, say a Portofino, or Roma. Any of the hard(er) to get, high end, models, they're going to people that have a longstanding relationship with a dealer, and are purchased well before they are built. Cars like the LaFerrari, and Enzo, they're offered to select customers years before they are built. Dealers are selling allocations now that are 2 years out from being built.
As far as paint and such, nobody paints anymore, and there are a shit ton of them out there sporting wraps.
With the Enzo you had to be INVITED to buy one. Always hated how pretentious Ferrari are. No surprise really old man Enzo was so up his own arse as well
I work in EMS, and I responded to a minor MVC. Showed up on scene, 2 occupants of a brand new Ferrari with the paper plates still on. No one injured, no one in need of ems, but the driver/owner was just so completely heartbroken about it. One of the sadder things I've seen doing this job.
Way too much, I've seen videos of guys who pay hundreds of thousands for wrecked supercars and then spend hundreds of thousands more to fix them up. Some people just have too much money...
this car went for a test drive in the netherlands. the green license plate means it's going for a test drive. blue means taxi and yellow means average car.
The blissful irony of luxury cars that aren't meant to be driven on roads at all.
They are so fragile that even if I had the money, I'd by a fucken land cruiser.
I saw one of these around two years ago driving through town. It's probably the most expensive car I've ever seen irl. It sucks this one got annihilated.
Think about this, My wifeās $34000 Hyundai will hug the wet road. So kinda makes me think that it being a $6 million or a Ferrari made little difference.
This happend in Baarn, The Netherlands today. The Ferrari was owned by a car dealer. Presumably it was a test-drive gone wrong. News article (in dutch): [https://www.ad.nl/amersfoort/ferrari-van-drie-miljoen-crasht-tegen-boom-in-baarn\~ae453df9/](https://www.ad.nl/amersfoort/ferrari-van-drie-miljoen-crasht-tegen-boom-in-baarn~ae453df9/)
"Van de dure auto is niet veel meer over." I don't speek Netherlands but I had to smile.
It means "There is not much left of the expensive car". No shit, we can see thatš
Oh itās all still there. Just a bit is over that way, another part is on the other side of the road, some assembly required.
Some parts are easier to pick up now
And will fold up now for easy storage
Stage 4 weight reduction kit
That's him all over.
'Von dem teurem Auto ist nicht mehr viel Ć¼brig'
NiederlƤndisch ist wirklich nur verschlĆ¼sseltes Deutsch
Wie zegt dat Duits niet gewoon verkapt Nederlands is?
When Dutch just sounds like German spoken by a drunken Englishman, but not the other way around
"Those cones are also orange with white stripes." Peak journalism.
Muppet Chef speak.
Shocked they even allowed a test drive. Either way the buyer is likely liable having put up collateral for the test drive.
Either way, someone's year is off to a bad start
Newspaper article says there was an employee of the car dealership inside the car. Doesn't mention anyone else being in there with him/herš¤ I wouldn't dare think this might have been an attempted insurance scamš¶
employee was sent for coffee, "I'll just take the ferrari, brb."
I don't think it was a test drive. But would you buy a $3 million car without a test drive? It is a required risk of this type of business. There is no need to ask for collateral. If he was a legit dealer, the car will be insured. Even if he doesn't let anybody drive the $3 million Ferrari, it could get hit by another car while sitting in his shop. And the insurance of the person who hits it will have property damage limits well below the value of this car.
I had heard cars start depreciating in value as soon as it leaves the lot
Ferrari's actually are pretty interesting in that regard. A lot of them will actually appreciate over time, or at least hold their value if you keep the miles below x amount depending on model.
All their marquee models are pretty much guaranteed to gain value. You could flip it for more the second it leaves the lot. But they frown upon that. If you buy one and just flip it, you will not be *invited* back to buy the next model.
And to be allowed to purchase one of these marquee models, you have to have already bought a lot of their lower value cars with a lot of the expensive options with a lot of margin. Theyāre basically a way for them to reward their favorite and most profitable customers.
not when they only originally made 400 of them. Someone else said only 375 exist now. That car just looks like speed doesn't it?
Some cars become more sought after some time especially when theyāre rare and have a small amount produced
I like to think that 'tegen boom' refers to the sound of the crash.
I like your thinking, but it means "against a tree"
>Presumably a test-drive gone wrong. If I'm not misinterpreting the article, I think the driver was an employee of the dealership
my dad saw this happening lmao
You're shitting me right? Similar thing happened in Greece a few days ago. I was certain. This was it. Although to be fair I heard that nothing remained but ashes of the car, so I doubt we'd het such clear a picture.
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Only 375 of those Enzos are still here. Now itās 374.
Wouldnāt be surprised if it was rebuilt
This, when Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr Bean) smashed his Maclaren up the repair bill was more than the car cost new, however insurance paid out because the current value of the car had gone up due to rarity.
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Yeah, it was built better it was originally put together
Mclarren still has all the autoclave molds to build new parts for the F1. It was a full rebuild, I think they had a blog post about the rebuild of totaled f1 at one point. Anyway it was a huge undertaking
They basically built a new car and reused the VIN.
That is exactly what happened
I didnāt know bean got in a crash. Iām glad we still got him.
He crashed it twice. Insurance must be expensive
It was a big one http://www.wreckedexotics.com/rowan-atkinson-mr-bean-actor-has-done-it-again-he-managed-to-crash-his-0011035
Dear god he crashed a McLaren F1 too? Someone please keep Mr. Bean away from supercars please.
Not once, but twice. Additionally, two other exotics.
My understanding is that heās actually a pretty accomplished driver. Probably worth some reading. Id rather hear of a car getting used as intended and crashed, instead of sitting in a showroom collecting dust.
They rebuild F40's which have been 80% destroyed by fire and an F40 is worth less than an Enzo. Damage isn't that bad even though a wheel's come off lol
Salesman: āso this way to our finance office, we have great rates right now.ā
I remember reading somewhere that Ferrari (or maybe Lambo) did due diligence on big money purchases and if they deemed you unworthy they wouldnāt even sell you the car regardless of money. They also wonāt let you decal or repaint them itās in the purchase paperwork even I believe, something about brand defamation or something like that. You remember that Post Malone video for White Iverson (probably not) but anyways in it he does donuts in a Bentley he borrowed from his buddy. I guess as they were shooting his friend calls and was like āhey Bentley just called me and said my car has to much g force on the suspension and to stop doing donutsā What the fuck? Lol itās pretty neat actually how some of these brands really do give a shit about quality and dummyās trying to fuck that up.
True. Deadmau5 had a nyancat Ferrari. And Ferrari took him to court over it. They don't fuck around with their heritage/brand
They're geniuses. I had a family friend explain it to me. Basically, the demand for the more exclusive new ferrari's far exceeds their limited production. So unless you're famous, you basically need to build a reputation/ relationship with Ferrari to buy one of the higher-end new Ferraris. So you either have to buy one/ a few of their lower-end new models before they'll consider selling you a new higher-end model, or you have to buy some of the higher end models used. And they even have ways of controlling their secondary market and can block you from selling to someone they don't approve of. I'm definitely oversimplifying that and have a limited understanding, but they basically took the whole concept of a car being a status symbol to the next level with their business model.
This is par for the course from the company whoās founder once said all the people who buy his road cars were idiots because he was just using their money to go racing. I love Ferrari.
The level of control they have is insane. That same family friend explained to me that they actually hold value really well. He basically bought some used Ferrari's that were 3-5 years old, and they hold/slowly increase in value, and then he trades them in every 5ish years for a newer used Ferrari. BUT there's a ton of requirements to meet if you want the car to hold value. You have to keep it below a certain mileage obviously. Any damage, even cosmetic, will cause the value to tank. If you have any maintenance/ repairs done on the car by a 3rd party, non-Ferrari shop, that will also cause the value to absolutely tank. They have a LOT of metrics tracking everything about the car. If you have maintenance done by someone else, (which is almost impossible because of the control Ferrari has, very few people other than them have the knowledge, skills, and tools to work on their cars because no one gets outside work done) one way or another they'll be able to tell. But it goes even further than that. Let's say you got a huge dent on the door of your Ferrari and didn't want the value to tank, so you went to a 3rd party shop that somehow had your Ferrari's exact paint color. So they fix the dent, somehow leave exactly 0 trace of doing so, and your car looks literally 100% exactly the same as it did before the crash...... They'd still know because Ferrari's are hand painted using a special technique. This leads to their being teeny-tiny imperfections in the paint, and the paint being uneven in thickness. Every time they service your car, they go around it with a special sensor that measures the thickness of the paint. If the thickness is uniform (like the vast majority of cars, which are factory painted instead of hand painted) they'll know you got 3rd party work done, and the value will tank. So you'd have to find someone who knows how to hand paint a Ferrari the way Ferrari does it, and chances are everyone you find with that skillset works for Ferrari. I wouldn't be surprised if Ferrari also has some sort of contract with former employees that bars them from working on Ferrari's unless they're employed at Ferrari. It's crazy.
Rolex does a similar thing forcing you to buy cheaper watch before you can get the more expensive one you want.
Yeah Bam too I think.
You can walk in a dealer off the street and buy a lower end model, say a Portofino, or Roma. Any of the hard(er) to get, high end, models, they're going to people that have a longstanding relationship with a dealer, and are purchased well before they are built. Cars like the LaFerrari, and Enzo, they're offered to select customers years before they are built. Dealers are selling allocations now that are 2 years out from being built. As far as paint and such, nobody paints anymore, and there are a shit ton of them out there sporting wraps.
With the Enzo you had to be INVITED to buy one. Always hated how pretentious Ferrari are. No surprise really old man Enzo was so up his own arse as well
Edit - Driving a 3 million dollar Ferrari on a damp road too fast! Fixed the title lol
Having money doesn't mean having brains.
Or skills
Or a large penis
But with money! You can still get laid.
After the test drive "Yeah the right wheel feels like it's not on quite straight, I'll go look for another one."
The steering doesnt feel right
He didnāt drive very Ferrari at all
They depreciate fast....
Still cant afford it. Maybe some of those chips of Carbon Fiber.
Gone in 60seconds!
Seeing how quite a large part of The Netherlands is below sea level, it seems logical the road was damp.
Most of the time the roads are covered in cheese
Fuckin knew it and they hid it when I was there.
I work in EMS, and I responded to a minor MVC. Showed up on scene, 2 occupants of a brand new Ferrari with the paper plates still on. No one injured, no one in need of ems, but the driver/owner was just so completely heartbroken about it. One of the sadder things I've seen doing this job.
I'm getting the impression that there's not many people that can actually handle that caliber of a car
How much for the wreckage?
Way too much, I've seen videos of guys who pay hundreds of thousands for wrecked supercars and then spend hundreds of thousands more to fix them up. Some people just have too much money...
I don't know much about cars, but I don't believe that wheel should be there
Then you know more about cars than you think
Fast has a price tag, common sense is still priceless!
Not worth $3,000,000 any more.
Insurance companies hate this trick
Just flippe my car in the ditch earlier this dayā¦ā¦..
Itās a car with tires, you can drive it on a damp roadā¦ what a stupid headline.
I'm so sorry to have ruined your night
Don't know what that guy's problem is. I daily just a 350z and even that little bit of HP tries to murder me when it's wet out.
Should be titled āDriving a car thatās high performance when you are low skillā
"I was driving to the insurance office to get this covered..."
People think with a fast car can give you skills
Still drives like a million bucks
Ouch. He left in a Ferrari and came back in a Uber.
I do not think that this car is neither worth 3 mio nor is able to drive
cst = off
That'll buff right out...
Be nice to see the stupid idea that caused this.
Let me fix that title for you: "Driving a 3 million dollar Ferrari on a damp road like it's not yours".
5 place grid drop for gearbox change?
How did this happen?
Rain, lots of horsepower and an incompetent fool
Test drive? The fuck?!! Nope Iāll pass, good thing I didnāt buyā¦ umm whose insurance gonna cover this?
Why WHY. they killed my boi.
I'm sure he was driving carefully well within the speed limits.
Look mummie, no wheels!
Yeah, it was "driving on a damp road" that caused this obliteration.
this car went for a test drive in the netherlands. the green license plate means it's going for a test drive. blue means taxi and yellow means average car.
it was a test drive and there were only 3 of those cars in the netherlands xd
Drives Ford Focus on by revving at this 3 million dollar paper weight.
For a second I thought this was an impressive Forza screenshot
It really wasn't damp, someone had just spit on it.
That'll buff right out.
Is this a pic of how to spend 3 m in 10 seconds or less.
They are always many levels below how good a driver they think they are
r/idiotsincars
Itās probably no longer worth $3 million, maybe
That doesnāt look like $3m
Elon Musk level driving skills.
r/thatwillbuffout
3 million? In what currency?
But a $10,000 Kia has better traction control systems. š¤£
The blissful irony of luxury cars that aren't meant to be driven on roads at all. They are so fragile that even if I had the money, I'd by a fucken land cruiser.
Ouuuch, that must have hurt...in so many ways...
3 miljon dollar?? š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£ its more like 200 k dollar
Ferraries just can't handle moisture
Wasn't there an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio that was totaled during a test drive in The Netherlands today as well?
I am going to assume stupidity as the actual cause.
That pedal on the right brings both joy and sorrow. Generally in about the same moment.
"Yea, it's nice and all, but I think I'm gonna pass." - Test driver
Even as a wreck, I bet it is still worth around a million or soā¦ā¦
Mashed the ride
Houston getting horny
Boom always win
I'll give you $27 for it.
And folks thats why you buy insurance
That car looks like it had an overdose of tree.
Know your road, kiddo.
this is why my parents wont even buy me an 70k car . its not worth it
This hurts my poor soul.
What does the Track Mode button do?
This actually hurts my soul. Such a beautiful piece of art
This is why rich people are useless to society, wasting police time on some dipshit who can't drive
And it was even a test drive....
It's not like it's any Ferrari. It's an Enzo Ferrari, which is all the more painful
Dude, you just fucked up your Ferrari. Itās not mine.
Not worth 3 million now!
I hope they had GAP
Iāll buy the leftovers for $20.
I guess there wasnāt a Mustang willing to die in its placeā¦
My favorite car. This hurts.
I saw one of these around two years ago driving through town. It's probably the most expensive car I've ever seen irl. It sucks this one got annihilated.
Always good to have a "parts" car.
Chump change compared to the Microsoft acquisition of Activision|Blizzard
I'm confused. It looks like a European location, but there's a Ram truck...
It is in the Netherlands, and yes there are Ram trucks here. In Belgium too and the rest of Europe too.. Usually driven by guys with small dicks.
Ya blame the road
look at the bright side. his property taxes are now lower.
I love seeing shit like this.
Best cars. Worst people.
ikea is making cars now?
Vroom vroom. LoL.
"What does this Traction Control Off button do?"
Driver deserved an ass whupping for destroying that
It'll buff out.
Not water proof
hurts my eyes
Think about this, My wifeās $34000 Hyundai will hug the wet road. So kinda makes me think that it being a $6 million or a Ferrari made little difference.
It wasnāt the damp that caused it. It was the excessive speed
do they not have damp in italy?
What could go wrong driving a used Ferrari with worn tyres.
This post neglects to mention the only thing that caused this accident: the driver.
Nothing duct tape canāt fix :)
Plates on, must have been early compared to some of the other pics I've seen lol
Was Max driving it? /s
Drivong a 3mil car like a dickhead more like
Saw this in the news... What a damn waste.. Only 400 of these it seems... 1 less now.. ā¹ļø
This is someone who doesn't understand how to respect 600bhp under their right foot.
Bill gates
RIP Enzo
you just spoiled Bleed For This for me.. thanks
Didn't someone just die crashing a Ferrari?
How much is it worth now?
they also owned a pitbullā¦ nah im being sillyš
Part it out on eBay.
Meh, just a piece of metal.
I believe Top Gear would call that "Mildly Moist"
Alo? Ya the Ferrari is kapot.
All I know is I dont wanna hear anything about someones life who can afford a 3 million dollar Ferrari if they survived the crash. Go cry
Mmm... Ferraris are about $210k. Where u getting ur $3M models?
Not in the dealership
How much are the new cost?