House himself confirmed to us he owns the Enzo crashed by Griffin. Ironically, the business House owns is Performance Auto Sales, which sells repaired exotic cars. According to House he's one of the largest salvage auto dealers in the world. We asked him if the car was salvageable or not and here's what he replied in an email:

Not sure if the car is salvageable yet, have not had a chance to go survey the damage. I am one of the largest salvage excotic dealers in the world. This car should be repairable but at what cost Im not familiar with. This was a personal car and one that I was very proud of.. it is by far the nicest car that I have ever owned, looking to replace it now!

As you can tell from the photo, the driver of this yellow 2003 Enzo lost control in what's been described as "light rain" and crashed into the guardrail of an expressway. No word on whether or not Eddie Griffin was shooting a "movie" in the area. [Wrecked Exotics]

They're guesses range from this being an unpainted car (there's extensive fiber use on the Enzo) to it possibly being a mule of some kind (probably not). Either way, it's certainly captivating to look at, isn't it? [Autogespot]

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We've scoured the Jalopnik archives for some of our best imagery to provide you with 22 high-resolution wallpapers that will work with both the Apple iPhone and the new Palm Pre. Both devices utilize a 320x480 format, so any of the wallpapers can be swapped between the two if you're a true Gizmodo-like gadget freak. We've even provided you with a handy guide for installing wallpapers on both at the end of the list, just in case you haven't figured out your newfangled touchscreen devices. If you find a wallpaper you like and absolutely must have; install it and take a picture to show us in the comments below.

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Sunglasses Guy
'Nuff said.

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AEV J8 MILSPEC: Offroading Jeep's Forbidden Fruit
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Save The Enzos!
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2009 Corvette ZR1: First Drive
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2009 Corvette ZR1: First Drive
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Jalopnik: Obsessed With The Cult Of Cars
Because you read the internet for the car articles.

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iPhone-Wallpapers provides a simple step-by-step guide to installing wallpapers on your Apple iPhone, although if you already own one shouldn't you already know how to do this?

1. Right-click or control-click on the image you want to use.
2. Select "Save as…" and save the image to your hard drive.
* Mac users can either save the image to a folder or add it to their iPhoto library.
* PC users will want to save the wallpaper into their "My Pictures" folder.

You can then sync the iPhone with photos in iPhoto 4.0.3 or later on a Mac, or Photoshop Album 2.0 or later or Photoshop Elements 3.0 or later on a PC. Or you can sync with any folder on your computer that contains images. Connect the iPhone to your computer and do the following:

1. Launch iTunes then click the Photos tab and select "Sync photos from:"
2. From the pop-up menu, do one of the following:
o If your using a Mac, choose iPhoto or your Pictures folder.
o If you're using a PC, choose Photoshop Album, Photoshop Elements, or your My Pictures folder.
3. Choose Folder, then choose any folder on your computer that has images.
4. Choose "All photos," or choose "Selected folders" or "Selected albums" and choose the folders or albums you want to sync.

Finally on your iPhone:
1. Goto the Photos section of your camera. Browse through the albums or camera roll until you find the picture you wish to use.
2. Select the picture so it is displayed full screen.
3. Tap the icon in the lower left corner of the screen. If you don't see the icon, single tap the picture to display the menus.
4. Here you can select if you want to email the picture, save the picture as a wallpaper, or assign to a contact.
5. If you want to assign to a contact, press that button. The contact list will open and you can select the contact you wish to link to the picture.
6. Select Done to complete the process.

[via iPhone-Wallpapers]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Here's a quick and dirty method to getting wallpapers on your brand-spankin-new Palm Pre thanks to PreThinking.

Adding wallpaper(s) to your Palm Pre:

1. Have your image as the new wallpaper ready on your computer. It must be in 320 x 480pixels. (Check out our wallpapers optimized for the Pre here.)
2. Connect your Palm Pre to the computer using the Micro-USB cable that came with the Pre.
3. Your Pre will ask to Media Sync, USB Drive or Just Charge. Choose USB Drive.Your Pre will now show up as an External Hard Drive on your computer. For Macs, you'll find 'Palm Pre' on your desktop and for windows, it's in 'My Computer'.
4. Click on 'Palm Pre' and you'll find yourself looking at several folders. One of which is labeled 'Wallpapers'.
5. Drag and Drop your preferred wallpaper(s) in the "Wallpapers" folder and you're done!

Changing your Wallpaper on your Palm Pre:

1. Open the 'Photos' App
2. Choose Wallpapers or any other photo album which your new Wallpaper is located at.
3. Scroll down to your new wallpaper and open it
4. Hit the upper left icon for the drop down menu
5. Hit 'Set Wallpaper'
6. It'll ask to Set Wallpaper again, hit it.

[via PreThinking]

We've identified the vehicles claimed by the super carpocalypse, where it happened, how it happened (hint: speed), and the original value of the vehicles (MSRP). Click through to see the carnage.

Lamborghini Gallardo Fire
Name Of Car: 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo
Where: London, England
How: Engine Fire
Value: $212,000

Lamborghini Gallardo Fire
Name Of Car: Lamborghini Gallardo
Where: Athens, Greece
How: Engine Fire
Value: $212,000

Ferrari Enzo Fire
Name Of Car: 2003 Ferrari Enzo
Where: Okanagan Falls, BC
How: Engine Fire
Value: $643,330

Ferrari Enzo Crash
Name Of Car: 2003 Ferrari Enzo
Where: Rallye De Paris at Magny Cours
How: Slid off track
Value: $643,330

Lamborghini Murcielago Crash
Name Of Car: 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640
Where: South Carolina
How: Rear-ended
Value: $405,000

Corvette Fire
Name Of Car: Chevrolet C6 Corvette
Where:Ukraine
How: Fire
Value: $49,515

Corvette Z06 Wreck
Name Of Car: Chevrolet Corvette Z06
Where: Massachusetts
How: Rear-ended by owner‘s wife on the freeway
Value: $74,875

Ferrari F430 Fire
Name Of Car: Ferrari F430
Where: Romania
How: Burst into flames following crash
Value: $227,000

McLaren F1 Fire
Name Of Car: McLaren F1
Where: Santa Rosa, California
How: Engine Fire
Value: $2,000,000

612 Scaglietti Fire
Name Of Car: 2009 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
Where: Moscow, Russia
How: Engine Fire
Value: $320,000 (nearly $850,000 for this owner)

Ferrari F50 Crash
Name Of Car: 1995 Ferrari F50
Where: Lexington, Kentucky
How: FBI Loses Control
Value: $480,000

Ferrari 599 GTB And Audi R8 Crash
Name Of Car: 2008 Audi R8 And 2007 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
Where: China,
How: Super Car Rear-ending
Value: $312,000 & $114,000

Ferrari F430 Stunt Accident
Name Of Car: 2007 Ferrari F430
Where: New York, New York
How: stunt accident
Value: $227,000

Lamborghini Diablo Crash
Name Of Car: Lamborghini Diablo
Where: Czech Republic
How: Showboating
Value: $240,000

Ferrari F430 Teenager Crash
Name Of Car: 2008 Ferrari F430
Where: Moscow, Russia
How: High Speed Teenager
Value: $227,000

Lamborghini Gallardo Driven Off A Cliff
Name Of Car: 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo
Where: Marbello, Spain
How: Lost Control, went off a cliff
Value: $212,000

Ferrari Testarossa And Ferrari 348 Wreck
Name Of Car: 1991 Ferrari Testarosa, 1995 Ferrari 348
Where: Oklahoma City, OK
How: Two high school baseball players ran into each other in the borrowed cars.
Value: $181,000 and $117,400

Name Of Car: Next-Gen Porsche 911 Tester
Where: Frankfurt, Germany
How: Lost Control
Value: $1,500,000 (estimated prototype value)

Porsche Carrera GT Takes A Tumble In Spain
Name Of Car: 2005 Porsche Carrera GT
Where: Marbello, Spain
How: High Speed
Value: $440,000

Lamborghini Murcielago Crash
Name Of Car: Lamborghini Murcielago
Where: Greensboro, NC
How: lost control due to "mechanical failure."
Value: $313,000

This Ezno, S/N 132658, submitted itself as an example for why we need our "Save the Enzos" campaign during a heated lap last March on a cold day at the Magny Cours circuit. The Enzo's tires hadn't properly heated up to a velcro-like state, so when the over-zealous driver misjudged a corner, he ended up in this precarious position on top of the tire wall.

With two Enzos down this year, are we going to need to reprint t-shirts again? [via FerrariChat]
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ADVrider member, Bross, was out for a ride with his wife this week when they were passed by an overly exuberant Ferrari Enzo driver. Imagine their surprise when, not ten minutes later they rolled up to it looking like it was fire bombed by the anti-fun motoring demons that seem to have been on the attack lately.

Here's Bross' account:

We rolled past and walked back to the scene. Jodie stopped and asked a man walking along the road if he knew what happened. He said "Yeah a guy was driving his Enzo Ferrari, it caught on fire and he jumped out." Jodie said "We saw that Ferrari drive by us in OK Falls, is the guy OK?" He said "Yeah, I'm the guy!" Then Jodie was struck speechless and said "I'm sorry"

The whole time he's not really looking at Jodie just texting furiously on his phone. He then went and sat down on the side of the road beside his duffel bag, all that he had left.

We've seen our share of 360s, 430s, 612s and 599s on fire, but to see the dethroning of the mighty Enzo like this, brings a bit of moisture (or is that 5W-30?) to our eyes. [via ADVrider] (Hat Tip To Rick!)

Wired's article immediately goes for the gut punch with a well told tale we all know and love depicting, in detail, that one fateful day in Malibu. While it wasn't Stefan's only feck up, it's definitely his most famous, at least in the halls of the Jalopnik campus. He was also known for his failed and mafia-tied Gizmondo handheld gaming platform and later his fraudulent exportation of multiple super cars to the U.S. The recently jailed Fat Steffe is likely going to be laughing all the way to the bank if this ever does come to fruition, which forces us to once again put this out there: Save The Enzos!

Here's an excerpt from Wired's original article:

THE BUMP IN THE ROAD that ended Bo Stefan Eriksson's fantastic ride is practically invisible. From 10 feet away, all you can see is the ragged edge of a tar-seamed crack in an otherwise smooth sheet of pavement. Only the location is impressive - a sweet stretch of straightaway on California's Pacific Coast Highway near El Pescador state beach, just past the eucalyptus-shaded mansions of the Malibu hills. On that patch of broken asphalt, there's barely enough lip to stub a toe. Of course, when you hit it at close to 200 miles per hour, as police say Eriksson did in the predawn light last February 21, while behind the wheel of a 660-horsepower Ferrari Enzo, consequences magnify.

The Enzo has less than 6 inches of ground clearance, and at that speed, it took only a slight scrape under the front bumper to launch the vehicle. The airborne Ferrari landed in a skid that in a blink became a sidelong drift. Tires shredding, the car bounced over the shoulder onto a grassy slope wet with dew. All Eriksson could do was hold on as the slithering, swiveling Enzo again achieved liftoff, then slammed broadside into a wooden power pole.

The crash became an instant media sensation. In Los Angeles, the destruction of the rare million-dollar Ferrari - and the strange story that rose from the wreckage - dominated local radio talk shows and TV newscasts for days. For most, it was just another diversion, the newest twist on the high-speed-chase formula the city loves. But the public attention would spell disaster for a handful of people connected to Eriksson, many of them fellow participants in one of the biggest debacles in the history of the videogame industry: the epic meltdown of Gizmondo Europe, Eriksson's former company.

[Gizmodo via Robert Capps via Wired]

Eriksson, also known as Fat Steffe, was arrested along with two suspected associates, on suspicion of theft, assault and extortion. This is almost a year after he was released from prison and deported to Sweden. We guess some people never learn.

[LA Times]

This San Francisco owner skipped the fancy ad and the snooty listing site and went straight for Craigslist. Of course that makes us automatically think setting up an "appointment to see this wonderful car" will result in waking up in a bathtub of ice with a missing kidney. If it is legitimate, with an original asking price of around $650,000, and 9,000 miles on the clock, if this owner manages to get the asking price for his car, this guy will have been paid about $60 a mile to own his Enzo, minus expenses of course. Chew on that for a while. [Craigslist Ad, HERE when the ad evaporates]

The hotel's pastry chef, 21-year-old Aaron Billington, was arrested on suspicion of causing "thousands of pounds of damage to the car." Must've been a heavy bloke.

The damage consists of a cracked windscreen and a busted side window. Repairs are estimated at £7,000, or a bajillion dollars American, whichever comes first. The singer, who owns "four Ferraris and seven Porsches," was described as both devastated and forlorn. We at Jalopnik are similarly distraught, though not as distraught had it been our own Enzo.

Do we have to begin Saving The Enzos again, or can the pastry chefs of the world keep it in their collective pants?

[DailyMail]

First, check out the clip from the documentary here (sorry, the Hulu embed wasn't working right), then come back to read through our sequential ordering of how the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the Carpocalypse actually occurred to see the link:

• Daniel Sadek owned Quick Loan Funding, a company providing mortgages to un-creditworthy buyers, exploding the sub-prime mortgage market to epic proportions.
• Sadek's company makes a lot of money through something called "Asset Securitization," whereby sub-primes are bundled up, repackaged and sold at credit ratings higher than the underlying mortgage credit worthiness as either "Mortgage Backed Securities" (MBS) or "Collateralized Debt Obligations" (CDOs).
• Sadek sinks profits into Redline movie, even letting Griffin crash Sadek's Enzo to promote it.
• Major banks and financial institutions that had borrowed and invested heavily in MBS and CDOs to re-purpose Sadek's mortgages face liquidity and solvency issues due to defaults of underlying mortgages within the securities.
• Banks stop loaning people money for buying cars because they're afraid they'll face a liquidity crisis.
• No loans means a "credit crunch" and thus, the Carpocalypse.

What do you mean our internal link scenario is highly dubious? It's so obvious. Just use the Commutative Property of mathematics and we swear it works — it's all Eddie Griffin's fault.

[CNBC via Hulu]

Perhaps we should expand the spectrum of our Save the Enzos campaign to include all exclusive exotics, what with all the news of totaled Maseratis, Porsche Gemballa Mirage GTs and Godzillas. [WreckedExotics]

So this is how it happened, understeer into some moronically placed (or brilliantly, for you tin foil-hatters) concrete barriers. A terrible, and undignified way for any car to die, much less an exotic beauty like the Enzo. That's how the story starts out, and we'll let Mr. Groner retell the rest in his own words:

From February of 2008:
Here's the story: When the car got wrecked last March, I got a half a dozen calls from customers/friends asking me if I was going to buy the car? This is our business: We buy damaged high line cars. Not necessarily the celebrity cars, but they seem to own many of these type cars so it comes with the territory. My response to them at the time was "I doubt it since the whole world knows about the car." We were in contact with the proper people, but I really didn't think this car would happen. Then, late 2007, we got a call asking if we were interested in the Enzo? We headed to LA to inspect the car and if it was what we thought then the negotiations would begin. The car itself was not hurt and had a retail estimate to repair of $300k. So, the owner of the car already had that money and we had to come to an agreement on the car as-is. We did our negotiating over the phone through one of good friends in LA and a deal was reached. My guys left Houston one Monday afternoon with truck and trailer and were in LA with certified funds in hand on Wednesday. Thursday at noon Houston time I got a call from my guys telling me that the owner had changed his mind and we weren't getting the car. Needless to say I was not happy, but this guy had other cars that we were still negotiating to buy so I stayed clam. My guys dead headed back to Houston empty... A wasted week for us. 10 days later we got a call and the guy now wants to sell the car. This time the car has been moved to our LA contacts location and there's no "changed my mind" by the owner. The deal was done and the car was then shipped to Houston.

We normally sell our cars in their damaged state. But, this car is special and everything bolts together. There is no frame to straighten ... it bolts to the tub. Just buy it and you're done. So, we ordered the parts and that where we are right now. 95% of the parts are here and we ready to make this car whole again. "Save the Enzos" I am trying.... Just need a little help from our Italian friends that make the parts. Please hurry. We Americans have no patience.

Update on Aug 7, 2008
Done... Finally! Attached are some pictures of the finished product. If I had to do it over again I would sell the car in it's damaged state and not repair it. Not because it was difficult to repair, but the time waiting on the Italians to supply parts is just ridiculous. I guess they have better things to do then to help "save an Enzo". Now that's it's done and I have had the privilege to drive the auto, I will say oh my, what a car! A true race car in everything it does. One trip to the track and I might keep it. Nope, not my style. Up for sale. Not $500k cheaper then the others on the market, but a little less. After-all, it's got a story. A pretty cool story though.

Update: You can check out the car at Matt's sales site: Matthews-Auto.com

This weekend it has been a major sport car show in Malmö in south of Sweden. Anyway. This tape was recorded after closing time when a Ferrari F50 was followed by some young twats in Beemers, Ricers and Porsches. SWEDES ARE HEARBY BANNED TO DRIVE ONE OF A KIND FERRARIS."

...to either Sweden or Germany, where his wife and daughter have their home. No word on whether he'll also receive his license back — but we're hoping he won't. We can't bear to see another Enzo bite the dust. Haven't we already been through enough? We mean, come on — we're still waiting to see Dietrich/Karney go to jail and don't even get us started on Eddie Griffin — we're still of the opinion there should be a death penalty for doing what he did. (Hat tip to JanTheMan!) [thelocal.se]