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"No one was injured when the rare Ferrari Enzo traveling 162 mph smashed into a power pole on Pacific Coast Highway."

I guess this is officialy the worlds best car if you do not get injured after hitting a freaking power pole at 162mph.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari3mar03,0,1423392.story?coll=la-home-headlines

It's like a 6th graders book report.

By the way, that's the second story. This is a continued report on the Gizmondo exec. The gloc information is new as is the bit about the race with the Mercedes SLR. But much like the Gizmondo, I'm sure he's making it up as he goes along.

Papers used to be written at an 8th grade level.  Maybe they lost a few more grades since then.

If it were up to me, the driver would get a needle in the arm for destroying such a superb piece of automotive art.

Yeah - Make him donate blood.  That'll teach him !

Don't be a silly ninny, Ironwood... I'm sure he meant a flu shot.  You're always so dramatic. 

Could be right.  Those shots hurt.

Damn Brits.

The owner wasn't a Brit, he was Swedish.  If you mean Ironwood and me, you're only half right.

Now updated with more trouble for this family.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari28mar28,0,377122.story

Ferrari Owner Is Minus His Second Car
Stefan Eriksson's priceless Enzo was totaled in a crash last month. On Sunday, his very pricey Mercedes was impounded.
By David Pierson and Richard Winton, Times Staff Writers
March 28, 2006


Stefan Eriksson's famous exotic car collection keeps shrinking.

First, the former European videogame executive's rare Enzo Ferrari was destroyed in a mysterious crash Feb. 21 on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

Then, on Sunday, he lost his 2005 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, valued at more than $400,000. Beverly Hills police confiscated the vehicle after Scotland Yard said the car might have been stolen.

The officers stopped Eriksson's wife, Nicole Persson, 33, about 2:30 p.m. on the corner of Beverly Drive and Wilshire Boulevard because an officer found the car's European license plate suspicious.

The officer then discovered that Persson lacked a driver's license and that the car was not registered in the United States.

"We contacted Scotland Yard and subsequently learned that the car was perhaps stolen" out of the United Kingdom, Lt. Mitch McCann said.

The entire incident was caught on tape by a 13-year-old exotic car buff who has filmed Eriksson's vehicles in the past.

Beverly Hills authorities said they didn't have details of the British police case.

But Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Phil Brooks said that an unidentified financial institution says it owns the Mercedes and that a financial institution in Scotland says it was the owner of the Enzo.

This leaves Eriksson with only one of the three exotic cars he imported to the United States late last year, Brooks said.

"He brought in through San Diego two Ferraris and the Mercedes and said they were show cars and that he was not going to drive them on the streets," Brooks said.

Last month's crash prompted both an accident investigation and a probe by the Sheriff's Department's Homeland Security Division.

Although no one was injured in the crash, the investigation has generated significant attention because of the strange circumstances and the fact that it destroyed one of only 400 Enzo Ferraris ever built.

Eriksson, who lives in a gated Bel-Air estate, told deputies who arrived at the scene that he was not the driver and that another man, named Dietrich, had been behind the wheel.

Eriksson said Dietrich fled the scene.

But detectives said they were skeptical of his version of events.

Investigators have taken a swab of Eriksson's saliva to match his DNA against blood found on the Ferrari's driver's-side air bag.

Eriksson also told deputies that he was a deputy commissioner of the police department of a tiny transit agency in the San Gabriel Valley.

A few minutes after the crash, two men arrived at the crash scene, identified themselves as homeland security officers and spoke to Eriksson at length before leaving.

According to Car & Driver magazine, the Mercedes SLR McLaren is capable to going 200 mph and can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.

The car didn't just capture the eye of Beverly Hills police.

Spyder Dobrofsky, a 13-year-old car enthusiast, happened to be at the scene of Sunday's traffic stop and switched on his camera.

The teenager has photographed cars in Eriksson's collection before and knew immediately that the McLaren was his.

"The car really stands out because of the British plate," Spyder said.

Spyder said Eriksson's wife was with a young child when she was pulled over.

On the tape, Spyder asks the tow truck operator called to remove the Mercedes where he's taking it.

The man jokes: "To my house."

Three cars imported.

The Ferrari and the Mercedes were stolen from a European financial institution.

Neither Eriksson nor his wife are licensed drivers.  (Well, he was not driving the Ferrari. Wink-Wink.)

I wonder if anyone is going to run the third one's plates.

Thank goodness Homeland Security is offering protection from those untrustworthy foreign cars.

Driver of that car fucking deserves to die in a car fire for smashing car like that. Fucking n00b driver.

Hey, what are the chances of a Scotland Yard case being about a Scottish case ?

Hands off our fucking cars, you yanks.

:)

I have a sudden urge to touch the Bentley down the street.

Uh..But...What.....gah.....


OMGWTFBBQ


RAGE!

Such exquisite examples of automotive art, thrown away by a bunch of fucking morons. I'd give them a needle in the arm if I could.

I wonder what traim the other Ferrari is....

Murder by lethal injection.. over cars. A just cause indeed.

You don't understand - if he crashed some beater, like say camaro, more power to him, but that retard destroyed one of truly unique cars. It is similar to someone destroying some unique painting, something that never could be recovered.

Also, why the fuck was he driving PCH in shitty weather?  That's quite possibly one of the most beautiful roads in America. If you ever go down it, around Corona Del Mar you'll see a yellow shack on the beach side of the road called the Shake Shack, incredible sandwiches and smoothies.  Going there when the weather is shitty is like saying "Hey guys it's raining, Disneyland time!".

Can't believe no ones touched on the horror of the name of the kid. Spyder? Dobrofsky? High schools gonna suck for him.

Hollywood teaches us that High School sucks for everyone.

I'm a bit confused... Disneyland is the best in the rain.... No lines.

I do, I just don't agree. There's a big difference. I don't find cars appealing. My Jetta gets me from point A to point B and that's all I care about. Guy fucked up a nice car. Just means there's only 399 more for you all to drool over. Oh knoes!

You drive a Jetta, so you couldn't understand.  :-P (Actually in the scheme of things a Jetta isn't that bad.)

Your car is there to get from point A to B, you exist to pay off the mortgage and your life is just passing time till you die.

Yeah, thanks, that cheered me right the fuck up.

Why don't you go for the hattrick and suggest that I may just have cancer ?

I'll make you feel better...

You IRONWOOD solely exist to reproduce.

And now he has been arrested

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/10/ferrari.crash.ap/index.html

If only there was some scientific way to find out if the blood was his. It would be such a breakthough that CBS might center its entire weekly schedule around the technique with a couple of dozen shows!

I wonder if he'll blame grand theft auto?

Prosecutors Charge Swede in Ferrari Case (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060418/ap_on_re_us/ferrari_crash_3)

This is a sort of a necro, but the story has a twist to it.
There was an article in yesterdays Sunday Times in the Uk mentioning Eriksson, and his business partner, Carl Freer.

They were the founders of Gizmondo,  they launched a hand held console last year , at which time Gizmondo share value was over $1 billion.
This year, not only has eriksson been arrested as detailed above, but the company is bankrupt, with £160 million in investment funds spent.

The article makes interesting reading,mainly  about the ability of people to raise huge capitol investment on the back of 'cutting edge' technology, even now in 2006.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2189659.html