Yet Another Enzo Destroyed

[5-90]

It's a known fact that drunks usually survive their major accidents - it has to do with being "relaxed" at the time. Think PLF (for those if you with Airborne training) or watch a tumbler or a Hollyweird stuntman taking a fall - same thing.

When you "go limp" as you're about to hit something, the force is spread over more of your body, and that reduces point pressures - reducing injuries.

It's sad that drunks usually survive their idiocy, while their victims do not, but that's the physiological fact of the thing. I think DUI's who actually hit someone and survive should be chained to a wall and have hammers thrown at them for about an hour. Loose chains - make them think they can dodge the incoming hammers...

5-90

 

[2manyToys]

I never have sympathy for any one who drives drunk, fails to yield/stop, or wrecks on a straight road.

I think all those "rumors" on past requirments to own Ferraris are funny. At first Ferrari was "inviting the first owners of the Enzo, but basically it's bases on social status, and income. Although Dodge, when they introduced the SRT-10 Viper the yoffer "pre-productin" ordering to the Viper club members (which you have to own a viper to be in) and the 1st batch went to them. Atleast that's what my boss (the owner of Jim Cogdill Dodge told me) I thought that was messed up!

 

[SoCalMJ]

I read that he was clocked at 150 before the accidents, racing another car he owned (a Merc. SLR).....and that he clipped the telephone pole 5 FEET off the ground.....and the salvage on the car is $250k+......not bad for ex-Swedish Mafia......
hasta

 

[IXNAYXJ]

I think all those "rumors" on past requirments to own Ferraris are funny. At first Ferrari was "inviting the first owners of the Enzo, but basically it's bases on social status, and income.

They aren't rumors. To purchase a F50, of which they built 349, you had to have owned several Ferraris before, with extra points if they were significant or important cars. Furthermore, to prevent speculating (buying it for MSRP and selling it for more money) the cars were "leased" to the owners, and it was understood that if you tried to sell it for a profit before the 2-year lease was up, you were off the list for the Enzo. They relaxed this requirement on the Enzo so any fool with $1,200,000 can buy one...and wreck it if he's careless enough.

-----Matt-----

 

[Matthew Currie]

Hmmmm-

Get a 2wd 2 door, pull the back seat, and gently place engine and transaxle that previous owner was kind enough to pull, and rule the streets... :laugh3:

No no! A VW Microbus! Picture it. The sunroof version with all the little scenicruiser windows?

 

[SteveT]

Oh Yeeaahhhh! Can you say Wheelie Wagon? :laugh3:

 

[RyleyF]

Drunk guy speeding snaps a telephone pole in half with a ultra light composite car...
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Actually the curb weight on an Enzo is about 3,000 lbs. Not very light at all, but nothing compared to the 4,000+ of the Bugatti Veyron.