<![CDATA[Jalopnik: wrecked exotics]]> http://tags.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: wrecked exotics]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/wreckedexotics http://jalopnik.com/tag/wreckedexotics <![CDATA[73-Year-Old Man Wrecks 10+ Exotics]]> A septuagenarian businessman from Florida has lots of money and apparently no driving skills, having wrecked ten exotics, including a Ford Indigo concept car, an EB110, and a Yenko Camaro. The full list is incredible. [WreckedExotics]

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<![CDATA[Viper Driver Great At Showboating, Not At Braking]]> We've all seen it before; an exotic car driver showing off by weaving in-and-out of traffic like a moron. The clip of a Chilean Viper driver shows the ending we always secretly want to see. [WreckedExotics]

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<![CDATA[2010 Porsche Panamera Crashes, Joins Cool Club]]> The 2010 Porsche Panamera is now cool. How do we know? Though only on sale for about three weeks, an owner has already partially wrecked one — and just in time for Crash Week! [WreckedExotics]

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<![CDATA[Red Audi R8 Rear-Ends Red Ferrari 599 GTB In Red China]]> The Chinese love fast, red cars. Chinese taxi drivers love abruptly stopping in the road. Thus the front of an Audi R8 met a Ferrari 599 GTB's trunk. It appears the Ferrari won. [WreckedExotics]

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<![CDATA[Jamiroquai's Jay Kay Devastated After Ferrari Enzo Damaged]]> The Ferrari Enzo owned by Jamiroquai's Jay Kay was brutalized by a yet unconfirmed assailant at the Brudenell Hotel in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. We've got the full damage report inside.

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]

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<![CDATA[2008 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Takes It Hard In The Rear]]> Sometimes wrecked exotic cars aren't the fault of their uber-wealthy d-bag owners. Sometimes it's just some schmuck who rams into their rear end. Example A: the unfortunate owner of this 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640. [WreckedExotics]

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<![CDATA[Porsche Carrera GT Takes A Tumble In Spain]]> Is the Porsche Carrera GT the new Enzo? No, not performance, rather in the desire of owners to crack 'em up 'round curves. Exhibit A: Autogespot's shots of a Carrera GT crashed in Marbella, Spain.

Here's what Autogespot knows:

One thing that is for certain is that the Carrera GT is totaled but we don't know the reason of the crash. It is probably a case of driving to fast, because with low speeds it's almost impossible to park a car this way. Maybe the Porsche hit the curb and got launched, but we will never know for sure. It is a shame, there aren't that many Carrera GTs and now another one of these beautiful cars is gone.

[via Autogespot]

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<![CDATA[$1 Million Pagani Zonda F Wrecked In Poland]]> According to WreckedExotics, the driver of this $1 million-plus Pagani Zonda F was speeding, lost control and slammed into a tree in reverse. What makes news worse? The engine caught fire after the crash.

Sorry PCH'ers, with the engine and the outer shell lost in this smash-up, we're not so sure there's much left to reconstruct, Eddie Griffin Enzo-style. But, that said, anyone want to try? [via WreckedExotics]

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<![CDATA[What Car Would You Most Like To Thrash On The Track?]]> Though most of our exotic car fantasies involve a track and bubbly alcohol in a novelty-sized bottle spraying into the air, we also have an alternative fantasy that ends with us hobbling into the pit, smoke spewing from the windows inside the remains of a thoroughly thrashed exotic car. If some cars can only truly be enjoyed at nine-tenths, then eleven-tenths must be that much better. We thought we might be alone with Eddie Griffin in this fantasy until we saw the photos of the wrecked $1 million Gemballa Mirage GT, driven by someone who clearly can afford this kind of track day destruction fantasy. Given the chance to indulge your dark side, what piece of exotic metal would you take to the track and meticulously rip apart in an act of gloriously wasteful destruction?

If we had just one opportunity to rip a car apart we'd take the Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermés, hands down. In addition to the car's cred as one of the fastest production vehicles available, the überluxurious Bugatti costs a cool $2.3 million. It also represents the more-status-than-brains world of car owners who want something exclusively because it is exclusive and could care less about performance. Destroying one by pushing it to the limits on the track would allow the car to briefly live before going out in a blaze of glory. A few hours with this, some forgiving barriers and grass and we could devalue this exotic faster than Lehman Brothers shares. All that would be left is a pile of two-tone bull calfskin and a few pieces of aluminum. It would look something like this. Assuming unlimited track access an unlimited budget and some kind of indestructible safety suit what would you thrash and how would you thrash it?

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<![CDATA[This Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Is The Most Expensive Crash Ever... In India]]> Indian Autos Blog, the lovers of all things automotive on the subcontinent, claim the smash-up of this Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 was the most expensive car crash in India's history. Whether or not that's true isn't really clear, but we're more interested in determining the "why." Perhaps the driver was just trying to imitate Bruce Wayne's intentional bull bashing. Then again, maybe he just lost control due to the bright yellow paint's magnetic traits. (Hat tip to Raja!)

[VKmag via Indian Autos Blog]

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<![CDATA[Porsche Carrera GT Eats It While Driving Onto Trailer]]> Here we find a perfect example as to why using those 2x8's you've got lying around behind the shed to load a half million dollar Porsche Carrera GT is a bad idea. We're not positive of the categorization here, but "epic fail" might be as close as we can get for everybody involved in setting up this cringe-worthy scenario. You can almost hear the carbon fiber chassis going all crunchy right at the end. Ouch. [VideoMax (NSFW banner ads)]

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<![CDATA[Hot Exotic Car-On-Car Mating Action]]> The purveyors of plunked Porsches, crushed Caterhams and other assorted crumpled cars at Wrecked Exotics have put together a collection of some of the hottest exotic car mating you're likely to see on the web. Want to see a Lotus get all up on a cab? What about a Ferrari 360 that likes to be on bottom? We know one Porsche 911 that has a deep yearning for Fiat-based foreign transportation. We guess it's safe for work, unless you work at an exotic car dealership. Our favorites are below and more are at Wrecked Exotics. [Wrecked Exotics]

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<![CDATA[First Hyundai Genesis Customers Bewildered By Low Price Tag]]> It looks like this pair of 2009 Hyundai Genesis Sedans got a bit tipsy on the way to their upcoming luxury-party crash. What you see here is a pair of early production or pre-production Genesi that were probably on their way to something important in Korea. Somehow along the way the truck carrying the black and silver pair lost its way, sending the cars tumbling on top of each other. Oops.

Though we've brought you photos of the Godzilla crashing earlier today, we don't see this as an alarming increase in Asian car accidents but rather a welcome increase in people sharing pics of wrecked exotics. And by "exotic" we mean, you know, stuff we don't see here yet. [Zeanon via CarScoop]

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