When most people are left standing at the altar it is usually due to a case of cold feet. However for one particular blushing bride, a Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 is a large part of the problem. Unfortunately for the lady in white she has no one to blame but herself because as a special treat for her future hubby, she dropped £8,000 on hiring him a bright yellow LP640 convertible to enjoy their wedding day. Apparently the driver was so anxious to get to the church, and so unfamiliar with the Lambo, that he lost control negotiating a roundabout leaving the Lamborghini skidding in the grass before it was launched into the air flipping end over end after crashing into a fence. Luckily for the groom, the Murcielago landed shiny side up and he managed to escape with no major injuries. But the best part is that he didn’t tell his wife about what happened until after they exchanged wedding vows. We just hope she bought the insurance.
Mama always told us to be careful when driving our cars while crossing an intersection, or in this case, the train tracks.
This poor guy from Sherman, Texas probably figured that his super car could get across the tracks unscathed. He was wrong, and his beautiful ride paid a pretty steep price.
That heap of metal you’re looking at was once a shiny and glittering Ferrari 550 Maranello. But after getting slammed a train crossing, well, it doesn’t look as shiny and glittery as it used to be. Fortunately for the poor guy, he managed to escape with only a few injuries.
When we showed you the $8 million 1958 Ferrari 250 TR hit the tire wall at Laguna Seca over the weekend, all our evidences were constricted to photographs. But now, thanks to videos captured by those who were at the race, we now have video evidence of exactly what happened to David Love’s obscenely expensive ride.
We’ve seen a lot of cars that crash in races over the years but not to the extent of this one. And it’s not because of the damage either, which if you look at the photos we showed, isn’t all that much – a few detailing tweaks here and there and banging sheet metals should do the trick. This car crash is significant because, well, the car that got introduced into the tire wall is one of the most expensive cars in the history of the world. One even got sold a few months ago for a cool $12 million!
While the video does give chills down our spines, we’re still compelled to show this to you guys. After all, how often do you see a car that can be sold for about four Bugatti Veyrons skirt the gravel and crash into a tire wall?
Sometimes, there are just pieces of video that are so unbelievable; you have to see it first to believe it. Take this particular video that a group of tourists shot while they were cruising along a highway somewhere in Israel. These tourists, enamored by the sight of three galloping horses in the opposite lane of the highway, decided to record this extraordinary – at least for them – occurrence without knowing that it would turn out to become a video worthy of the YouTube Hall of Fame.
Not long after they started recording, an incoming car came into view and was headed straight for the galloping stallions. Two of the horses managed to get out of the way while the last horse, with no time to move out of the car’s path, decided to take on the vehicle head-on by trampling all over the hood and windshield before continuing on its merry way.
We won’t fault you if you can’t. This charred remnant was once a 2005 Dodge Viper and if there was ever any car accident that you don’t want to be in the middle of, this should take the cake. The driver of the car was cruising along the streets of Laurel, Mississippi when he lost control of his Viper while passing another car. As a result, his rear end gets dislodged, loses control of his vehicle and goes off to the side of the road.
If that wasn’t enough, he crashes his Viper into a tree, after which, it catches fire. The photo of the once-proud American muscle car is a gruesome sight, unrecognized beyond despair.
A week ago, we showed you photos of the Green Hornet’s ride, the Black Beauty, crashing into a small concrete wall. While speculation was rampant that it was merely a stunt, this video we got from TMZ seems to show that the car did lose control and crashed into a cop car first before hitting the concrete wall.
The clip shows the Black Beauty doing a scene where it effortlessly navigates through the scene unscathed. Then the same scene was shot again but this time, the Black Beauty apparently loses control, hits the police car, and crashes into the barrier.
Now, there’s a thin line between a scripted scene and an actual accident, especially in Hollywood, but the more we watch the video, the more it looks like the accident was neither planned nor was it intentional.
Speaking of ambitious car building efforts, when a team decides to go racing there is almost nothing that can sand in their way, not even having to build a complete race car from scratch. When Patrón Highcroft racing driver Scott Sharp totaled his Acura ARX-02a LMP1 car heading into turn 3 during a practice session for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, the fun loving tequila drinking team was faced with that very task. After making sure that Sharp was still on point and stripping the wrecked Acura for whatever was still race worthy, all that the Acura racing team could do was wait.
The brand new carbon fiber tub arrived directly from Honda’s Performance Development center in California at the racetrack in Atlanta, Georgia at 9:30 AM on Friday morning and after 15 and a half hours of non stop wrenching, the ARX-02a’s 4.0 Liter V8 was fired at around 1:00 AM the next day. About six hours later the Acura took the shape of an LMP car and was on the track and race ready by 9:45 AM Saturday morning. It might have been a tall order, but remember what we said about how nothing can keep a racing team from competing.