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Super Carpocalypse: The 20 Exotics Destroyed So Far This Year
Detroit, 10:13 PM
Fri Dec 11
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It doesn't look like a parking lot to me. It appears to be in the middle of a street. My guess is that the driver decided to park it when the thing started to burn up around him.
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Is this not Jalopnik? Do we not have "filthy fucking mouths"?
Where's the Godfather when you need him...?
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Wiggity wiggity.
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Keep in mind when Mercedes sent the less insane CL65 Black to Top Gear it was accompanied by a letter saying it was dangerous.
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The 'Vette does seem a little out of class given the value of its competition, however. The F1 is by far the most painful of the images.
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Some of these are pretty spectacular fireballs too. But the most spectacular Ferrari fireball I've ever seen is still this:
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Ferraris make up 45.4546% of the cars crashed, and therefore are the most dangerous brand of vehicle to buy. If you want to be safe, buy McLaren or Audi, which only have 4.5455% a piece of the supercar-death pie.
However, the most dangerous MODEL is the Lamborghini, which makes up a significant 13.6364% portion of this list.
The most dangerous country to buy a car from is obviously Italy, with a whopping 72.7273% of these dead super cars. The safest country is, obviously, the UK with their silly Health and Safety laws, netting a clean 4.5455%. But don't feer, Americans! You are in second place with a mere 9.0909%!
The average price for the vehicles involved is $415,930, with a standard deviation of $466,606. The median price is $233,500. The highest price was the McLaren F1 with an estimated value of $2,000,000.
A total of 22 cars were documented in these incidents.
But don't worry about spontaneously combusting! Engine fires make up a mere 22.7273% of all these incidents, with crashing being the most common reason for supercar death, with a whopping 68.1818%. So drive responsibly!
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I didn't include the Jaguar E-Type though. It's less of an exotic, more of a classic. Had it been included, Britan would be tied with the US for least-deadifying cars.
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Cars burn to the ground every where I look around, crash-ing every where, makes me sit and stare, stop now, no how, turn in, understeer, fills the driver with fear, throttle hard, no brake car reverses into lake, carnage, every day and I just cry!
It's the end of the cars as we know it, it's the end of the cars as we know it, it's the end of the cars as we know it and I feel fine.
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I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden crankshafts, and among the crankshafts was someone "like a son of Enzo,"dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. His head and hair were red like blood, as red as a FXX, and his cars were on blazing fire. His feet were like ceramic glowing under hard braking, and his voice was like the sound of a Lampredi V12. In his right hand he held 16 championships, and out of his mouth came a prancing horse. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
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Troll fail.
If you insist on using slang, at least use it correctly. It's "let 'em"
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For me a super car must be rare (say, less than 1000 made), be at the bleeding edge of performance for its era and be somewhat more expensive than a regular car (which these days means well north of $100K for a new one).
So the ZR1 barely qualifies, but the Z06 is out.
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No? What's that? It's not a super car?
It is rare, probably less than a hundred made, it is at the bleeding edge of technology and performance both for its age and its genre, and it is well north $100k in terms of cost.
No? It's still not a super car?
Damn.
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If there's one siting on a dealership lot which shares a driveway with a John Deere dealership... it's not a supercar.
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