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Porsche Gemballa Mirage GT
Million-Dollar Porsche Gemballa Mirage GT Smacked Around At Track Day
This Gemballa-modded Porsche is worth about $1 million — or was, before the owner smashed it up during a club event at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France. We hope the owner of this wrecked Porsche Gemballa Mirage GT read our post about track day insurance changes before he hit the asphalt. Fortunately he was unharmed, and the report even states he was joking about the crash after he recovered from the initial shock. Guess you can either laugh or cry.
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Godzilla Smash! Another Totaled Nissan GT-R
After seeing the Nissan GT-R crashed in America, in Malaysia, in Hong Kong, and on the Isle Of Man, we've found another. This white GT-R, with just 349 miles on the odometer, has shown up totaled in a Nashville auction yard. It's said to have about $55,000 worth of damage, so we're not sure anyone is going to bid very much when it hits the block today. No word on just how the GT-R got to be in this predicament, but we're pretty sure this isn't covered by the warranty.
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Accidents
Lamborghini Murcielago In Deadly Accident On California's 101, Obliterated Almost Beyond Recognition
Early this morning, a green Lamborghini Murcielago was completely destroyed in a deadly accident on California's 101 freeway in Woodland Hills. The car was spotted just before the incident allegedly undertaking in some very noteworthy speeding suspected to have resulted in the car punching through a guardrail and smashing into a parking structure. The unnamed driver was pronounce dead on the scene when police arrived and after watching the footage from the accident scene, we're not at all surprised. You know a wreck is bad when the only way to identify a car is by the wheels. At this rate, there won't be too many Murcielagos making it to classic status. (Hat tip to Noraa!) [LATimes] -
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Bollea Expected To Let Judge Decides His P***y Fate
The ongoing trial of Nick Bollea, son of the Hulkster, previous owner of aP***y Magnet1998 Toyota Supra, street racer and driver during a wreck that left another individual critically injured, has taken another turn that could be dastardly for the son of the Hulkster. Bollea originally plead not guilty to felony charges of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury, but is expected to withdraw the plea and likely plea guilty or no contest to the charges and put his fate in the hands of the judge with a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The passenger at the time of the wreck, John Graziano, is still bed-ridden and is in the process of filing a lawsuit against the Bollea family. [TBO] (Image)
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novelties
Crash Bonsai Brings Miniature Hoonage Aftermath To Your Cubicle
Someone who has experienced a car-on-tree collision first hand generally never wants to reenact the event, but if you do, there's now a company that caters to you. Crash Bonsai provides a means of reenact your tree collisions — in like 1/8 the scale. That's right folks — it's essentially nothing more than model cars crashed into bonsai trees.
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Is the Lamborghini LP640 Cursed?
Of course it'd be easy to assume the answer to the question posed in the headline is, "Yeah, cursed with rich boneheads who practice heel-toeing (at eight-tenths) in a 640-hp supercar." But is that a done deal, or is there something evil lurking within the clockworks of Lamborghini's most excellent Murcielago, the slate-gray LP640? WreckedExotics has already logged two catastrophic accidents of the special-edition Lambo, which was unveiled at the Geneva show this past March. In the latest incident (pictured), a driver had to be airlifted to the hospital after losing control while passing another car and slamming the Dark Lord into a tree, on the way to a press event. Prior to that, according to WE, a pre-production model was wrecked on public streets during testing. With the handful of so of these cars not yet in the hands of buyers, the accidents have been at the hands of, more or less, pros. Will the LP640 be a fast track to the Darwin Awards for upper-class contestants? Tune in later this year. More » -
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What The...?: Out to Pasture
Our buddy Nick asks "Can you help in naming this wreck of a car?" to which we reply, er, we'll try our goldarndest. Our guess is a 1969 European (or Australian) Ford Capri, though we're not ruling out some kind of bashed-up Opel/Vauxhall compact. Any ideas? Send 'em to tips@jalopnik.com.
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