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Malibu Mystery Races Away With Buzz
Yahoo ^ | Mar. 2, 2006

Posted on 03/03/2006 6:10:51 PM PST by nuconvert

Malibu Mystery Races Away With Buzz

Thursday March 02, 2006

It was a rare and exotic animal: a Ferrari Enzo, one of just 400 ever brought forth into this world. When you saw this thing coming, you didn't look away. If you wanted to own it, it cost you a cool $1 mil -- and it could earn you a whole lot of buzz.

Last week, Swedish millionaire Stefan Ericksson slipped behind the wheel of his Enzo with, he says, a German named "Dietrich." They took the vehicle out on Malibu's Pacific Coast Highway. And they let that baby run.

The car, that fierce, beautiful creature, hit speeds of 162 mph; it was practically airborne. It crested the hill, neared a power pole, and perhaps then, or perhaps never, did its driver spot the bump in the road.

Now we have one less Ferrari Enzo left idling in existence. "Dietrich," if he exists at all, has run off into the hills. Ericksson, a former Gizmondo exec, is nursing a bruised lip behind the gates of his Bel-Air mansion and claiming that he remembers nothing. And a slew of searches are roaring at unseen speeds up the Buzz.

From "ferrari" to "enzo ferrari" to "enzo crash," from "stefan ericksson" to "gizmondo" to "malibu," the searches just keep rolling in. As police investigate a gun magazine found near the wreck, Scotland Yard gets involved, and reporters mutter "plot thickens," we're watching for more buzz to come down the road.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auto; ca; calif; car; carauto; crash; enzo; ferrari; ferrarienzo; malibu; stefanericksson; stefaneriksson
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1 posted on 03/03/2006 6:10:55 PM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

More pics here..........(if you can stand to look)

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/special/enzo/


2 posted on 03/03/2006 6:12:04 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert

Unngh


3 posted on 03/03/2006 6:12:47 PM PST by cmsgop ( I love Scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch)
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To: cmsgop; All

Here's the same guy driving a black Enzo ......

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/32161922-558B-4EC4-B60D-2C4E3E355BED.htm


4 posted on 03/03/2006 6:16:32 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert

"As police investigate a gun magazine found near the wreck, Scotland Yard gets involved..."

OK, I'll ask.

Why is Scotland Yard getting involved?

I thought California was being annexed by Mexico, not the UK...


5 posted on 03/03/2006 6:17:06 PM PST by decal (Whoever said you can't fool all the people all the time has never visited DU...)
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To: nuconvert

The L.A. Times via Drudge said that two men who identified themselves as from Homeland Security came and took him away. Now the police are trying to figure out who they were. Weird.


6 posted on 03/03/2006 6:18:31 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: KittyKares

It was osamahaulinass ?


7 posted on 03/03/2006 6:19:34 PM PST by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: decal

Don't know. The guy's Swedish.


8 posted on 03/03/2006 6:20:30 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: al baby

Better than being in a cave, I guess.


9 posted on 03/03/2006 6:21:04 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: KittyKares

Overstayed his visa?
Wanted by Scotland Yard?


10 posted on 03/03/2006 6:21:25 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert
"If you wanted to own it, it cost you a cool $1 mil"

Ripoff!

$70,000 Z06 Bump


11 posted on 03/03/2006 6:22:50 PM PST by Conservative Firster
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To: KittyKares; decal

"The owner of the car is Stefan Erikssen, a 44 year old former executive of Gizmondo. He left Gizmondo after allegedly being involved in a Swedish Mafia crime ring."

I think his Enzo days may be coming to an end


12 posted on 03/03/2006 6:23:20 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert
Here's the link. Maybe this will help - a little. LATimes
13 posted on 03/03/2006 6:24:04 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: nuconvert

Damn. Total engine detachment.


14 posted on 03/03/2006 6:25:41 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: nuconvert

Swedish mafia? That's a new one on me.


15 posted on 03/03/2006 6:26:05 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: KittyKares

Lol. That made things even more complicated and confusing.


16 posted on 03/03/2006 6:27:55 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: nuconvert
As police investigate a gun magazine found near the wreck, Scotland Yard
gets involved, and reporters mutter "plot thickens," we're watching for more
buzz to come down the road.


IIRC, it was a Scottish bank that had called authorities to tell them
they were in the process of repossessing the car.
And that some guys that came on the scene of the accident flashed some
Homeland Security badges, but then they faded away in the crowd.

At least that's what I heard on CNBC's "On The Money" tonight.
17 posted on 03/03/2006 6:28:52 PM PST by VOA
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18 posted on 03/03/2006 6:29:07 PM PST by al baby (Father of the Beeber)
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To: nuconvert

I was afraid you would say that.


19 posted on 03/03/2006 6:29:26 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: KittyKares

Check out the link in #2 and scroll down. You'll find out more about him.


20 posted on 03/03/2006 6:31:43 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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