Posted on 05/05/2016 11:13:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Reportedly celebrated his new car with a bottle of champagne
A newly minted McLaren owner in England became a little over-excited following the delivery of his brand-new supercar. Telegraph reports that the owner of a McLaren 650S stuffed the coupe into a tree just 10 minutes after the car arrived at his house for the first time.
The report states that neighbors spotted the owner celebrating supercar ownership with a bottle of champagne right after the car arrived at his doorstep. Not 10 minutes later, the owner introduced the front end of his $265,000 supercar to the ever-sturdy trunk of an innocent tree. The collision was severe enough to demolish the front end of the car, scattering bits of the carbon fiber bodywork all over the immediate area.
While it isn’t easy to sympathize with the owner, it is simple to understand how the driver lost control. With a 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 engine sending 641 hp and 500 lb-ft to the rear wheels through a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, the 650S scampers to 62 mph in a chest-compressing 3 seconds, and on to a top speed of 207 mph. These are not performance figures of a forgiving and easy-to-manage car.
Essex police are not completely sure on the identity of the driver who was piloting the car at the time, and are still conducting an investigation.
Not funny. The wrong people have money.
‘Tis a pity to damage such a beautiful thing. I am referring to the tree.
Whisky bottles and brand new cars,
Oak tree you’re in my way.
I hate when I crash my $265,000 car in just 10 minutes.
When I was a 18 year old kid working for a moving company, one of the older guys told a similar story of a guy he knew a few years earlier who had just bought a brand new Trans AM
and was pulling out of an Ontario Department of Transport building parking lot after just having it registered(following it being bought brand new) and someone slammed into the Trans AM and completely totaled it right then and there.
The problem with a $265,000 car is most people don’t have enough insurance to cover it.
I think insurance companies should be limited to liability covering $50,000 per vehicle, and anything over that, is up to the owner to self-insure.
LOL. Reminds me of an episode of Pawn Stars where Cory had just received delivery of a custom made Harley chopper he bought and in less than 30 seconds he knocked it over off the kickstand and dinged it all up. It didn’t look staged either.
He must have been imitating Paul Walker. Sure hope the engine is in the back (where it should be.)
Don't you think we have enough rules?
Only 265K? Hope he had insurance.. And a small deductible.
Very likely a case of too much right foot and not enough skill. My recollection is that this kind of thing was not uncommon back in the early 90s when the original Dodge Viper first hit the showrooms. The Viper was (and I believe still is) notorious for having absolutely zero stability/control systems: no traction control, no ABS, no drive-by-wire throttle profiles. Even with tires a foot and a half wide, it was ridiculously easy to break traction and fishtail all over the place, and a fair number of new owners who thought they were buying a cool “image” car discovered the hard way that they had actually bought something that actually required concentration to drive.
YouTube has a bunch of videos of this type event, I have solved this problem, I drive a Corolla.
And I realize that this McLaren is far more sophisticated than a Viper, but even expensive tires have limits.
Why should I have to carry a ridiculous amount of insurance because some boob wants to drive a car that costs more than my house? They should have to self-insure to put something that expensive on the road.
Typical, the dorks that can afford fast cars are usually the ones that should not have them. Most should be driving a Priaps. A fast car is not testosterone replacement therapy, nor does it make you Dan Gurney.
One story I was told was an American stationed overseas had ordered a brand new Trans Am and was watching it being craned off the cargo ship. Well, something broke and down it went onto the dock. I imagine it was insured, but still.
How perfectly socialist of you....
So my $70,000 Toyota Sequoia is only worth $50K to you and I am expected to foot the bill for your fault? I’ll see you in court for the balance of the damages, even if it means I have to take your mobile home and sell it to recover what I am owed to make me whole.
You really don't understand the concept of insurance, do you?
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