Supercar crash: 10 most expensive luxury car accidents

[snopes]

A driver crashed a £528,000 supercar after spinning out of control on a test run down a country lane near Aberdeen, leaving an expensive insurance bill. Here are some other expensive crashes involving luxury cars.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...accidents.html

[RichardM]

In some of those cases, it is proof that money doesn't buy wisdom. In others, I am glad to see that the cars are being driven and not treated like art objects.

[Stan The Man]

Originally Posted by Linked Story

2 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder: £6.7 million.

The 1961 car was bought at auction in 2008 for $10 million. But the unfortunate owner, who has not been named, stored the car near a Californian beach and it was wrecked in a hurricane.

Does California get ever get anything but a bit of flooding from hurricanes?

[Errata]

Originally Posted by Stan The Man

Does California get ever get anything but a bit of flooding from hurricanes?

Hurricanes don't usually hit the Southwest. Not anything like the Southeast. If anything it's usually just the tail end of one, and it's just heavy rain. Since he only bought the car in 2008, I don't even know what hurricane he's talking about. There was a pacific typhoon that made it rain a lot several months ago, but it wasn't a hurricane when it hit California, just rain.

[snopes]

But the unfortunate owner, who has not been named, stored the car near a Californian beach and it was wrecked in a hurricane.

I think they somehow conflated the full name of the car (250 GT California Spyder) with the explanation that it was ruined in a hurricane zone and clumsily came up with the idea that a hurricane in California had done it in.