Flaming Lamborghini
16 June 2009
As legendary rockers Queen once put it: ‘Another one bites the dust’.
Although we doubt the late, great Freddie Mercury had supercars in mind when he sang the future classic in 1980, but there does seem to be a worrying amount of exotica catching fire at the moment.
The latest is a Lamborghini Gallardo which got a bit hot under the collar in Greece this week. Once yellow, now plain old charred, the Gallardo is completely gutted as, we imagine, its owner is.
The images from Athens of the destroyed Lamborghini are the second in as many days following the Ferrari Enzo blaze we featured yesterday.
With Ferrari Enzos typically worth between £750,000 and £1 million, the £100,000 Gallardo is supercar small fry.
Ferrari Enzo
But even the Enzo pales into significance when compared to the McLaren F1 which appeared to spontaneously combust two weeks ago. Just 65 road-going McLarens were ever built with this particular model insured for $3 million (£1.8 million).
At the end of May a Ferrari 612 caught fire in Moscow while being driven through a posh part of the Russian capital.
It was all the more heartbreaking for the driver as she stood at the side of the road watching fire destroy a car she’d owned for just 30 minutes.
Ferrari 612 fire pics
So far this year at least five Lamborghini Murcielagos have been written off while an FBI agent crashed a Ferrari F50 into a tree.
The award for the weirdest supercar crash goes to a pair of American teenagers who were driving their baseball coach’s Ferrari Testarossa and Ferrari 348 when there was a collision between the two in an Oklahoma car park.
However, the most documented supercar crash involved a Mr Cristiano Ronaldo, who lost control of his Ferrari 599 GTB which he is thought to have taken delivery of just days before the accident.
Ronaldo was interviewed by the police and provided them a written statement of the incident. It was announced today the police won’t be taking any action against the soon-to-be world’s most expensive player.
Lamborghini source: Autoblog Greece and Troktiko via Jalopnik
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