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Eight Ferraris, Lamborghini in $4 Million Pile-Up

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Kyodo News/Associated PressPolice officers investigate damaged Ferrari cars at the site of a traffic accident on the Chugoku Expressway in southwestern Japan on Dec. 4.​
Flashy sports cars valued at as much as $4 million became a mangled mess in a matter of minutes on Sunday when a Ferrari leading a pack of exotic sports cars on a trip from Japan’s southern island of Kyushu to Hiroshima skidded as it tried to change lanes.
When the smoke cleared, eight Ferraris and one Lamborghini in a 20-vehicle group driven by amateur sports car aficionados were among the cars banged up in the 14-car pile-up. About 10 people suffered minor injuries in the accident on Sunday morning on a 400 meter-long curve, according to the Yamaguchi prefecture police. Some have already been discharged from the hospital.
But local authorities say it likely wasn’t a case of “The Fast and the Furious.”
Although the investigation is continuing, based on initial interviews, the type of the damage the vehicles suffered and injuries, authorities said they don’t believe the cars were burning rubber as per the highway throwdowns made famous in the street racer movie series.
Instead, wet road conditions may have caused the first car, a Ferrari driven by a 60-year-old male, to slip on the two-lane highway and smash into a guard rail. Cars behind then added to the pile-up as they tried to screech on the brakes. Yamaguchi prefecture’s highway investigation officials declined to specify how fast the cars were traveling.
In addition to the nine sports cars damaged, another two Mercedes Benz cars traveling on the other side of the highway got caught up in the crash when flying car parts hit the vehicles.


http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/12/05/eight-ferraris-lamborghini-in-4-million-pile-up/
 
No surprise that what appears to be the front car is a ~25 year old Ferrari 😀

Dang, looked closer at the other pics. Maybe not 🙁
 
yet another Japanese conspiracy to keep foreign goods out of the country. What are the chances that even the "bystander" cars from the oncoming traffic are also European cars?
 
Wonder how overvalued the cars are in the current market. The cynic in me thinks its a big insurance scam.

Wonder if the lead ferrari had traction control. From the story I cant figure which car it was. If it was the TR or the 360 probably not.


as an aside, how many of you thought about godzilla when you saw the pictures of the safety workers wearing the blue suits and helmets. I know I did.
 
manimal said:
Wonder how overvalued the cars are in the current market. The cynic in me thinks its a big insurance scam.

Wonder if the lead ferrari had traction control. From the story I cant figure which car it was. If it was the TR or the 360 probably not.


as an aside, how many of you thought about godzilla when you saw the pictures of the safety workers wearing the blue suits and helmets. I know I did.
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http://jalopnik.com/5863531/man-intentionally-drove-22-million-bugatti-veyron-into-lake
like that eh?😉
 
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