Showing posts with label Wrecked Exotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wrecked Exotics. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2016

The Worst Car In The World



Happy April Fools Day! This car really exists! The 1951 Hoffman. A 1935 Hoffman featured an X8 engine (as opposed to a V8) in a slightly more traditional chassis.

1951 Hoffman at 2012 Hilton Head Concours courtesy as shown in The Motoring Journal
1951 Hoffman at 2012 Hilton Head Concours as shown in The Motoring Journal 

1935 Hoffman X-8 at Pebble Beach Concours from Hemmings.com
1935 Hoffman X-8 at Pebble Beach Concours from Hemmings.com

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

More Ferrari Hill Climbing Mischief


Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a Ferrari F430 Spider. As you can see, the hill climb attempt was a bit too ambitious. One more example of why we strongly recommend Ferraris be used only on paved roads and not for rock climbing. We recommend Land Rover, Jeep and Steyr-Daimler-Puch for mud and boulders. (We should also mention that everyone involved in this accident lived to tell about it.)

Please send your abused Ferraris along with generous donations to:

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris (SPCF)
c/o Almost Everything Auto Body
37414 Centralmont Place
Fremont, California 94536
USA

Thanks as always to WreckedExotics.com for the photos and alerting us to the destruction of another exotic car.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Our Continuing Series on Ferrari Offroading

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a Ferrari 355. Long time fans know that we regularly report on Ferraris that are driven off the pavement. In this case, Wrecked Exotics reports that it was not the driver's fault, "A vehicle cut the Ferrari off, swerved into the grass and up a rock ledge and flipped. Both occupant's OK, just banged up."

Ferrari 355 bites the dust, literally

Another Ferrari offroading adventure

Please send your abused Ferraris along with generous donations to:

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris (SPCF)
c/o Almost Everything Auto Body
37414 Centralmont Place
Fremont, California 94536
USA


Thanks to our good buddies across the bay at WreckedExotics.com for their regular doses of supercar mayhem.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Ferrari California vs Bus

It has been far too long since we've posted a Wreck of the Day. So today we are making up for the lapse. Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day  is a 2014 Ferrari California.

Ferrari California vs Bus in Ajman--Bus WINS!

Astonishingly, everyone survived with only minor injuries. 

Ferrari California crashes into truck

The accident took hours to clear and caused major traffic delays in the city of Ajman, United Arab Emirates. Police accuse the driver of excessive speed and reckless driving. First responders assumed the Ferrari passengers would have to be dead. Not only were they alive but not too seriously injured. It helped that the driver, a man in his 20's, had been able to slow before hitting the bus by plowing into 4 or 5 other cars (accounts vary.) Both Ferrari occupants went to the hospital and are expected to make full recoveries. 

Hours later, still trying to clean up Ferrari California crash

Thanks to our good buddies across the bay at WreckedExotics.com for their regular doses of supercar mayhem. Thanks also to Carscoops.comInAutoNews and Daljinder Nagra at AOL for additional details.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Video of Lamborghini Aventador Crash

Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Nero Nemesis crash
We wonder what the Mazda driver's insurance rates were after this crash. Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a special edition Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 called the "Nero Nemesis." Amazingly, it was all caught on video. Lots of debate on internet over who was at fault--was the Lambo going too fast? Or was the Mazda driver just oblivious? (We fall into the camp of the Mazda driver needed to yield to traffic.) Either way, no one was seriously injured. DuPont Registry lists a Lamborghini Aventador Nero Namesis at $450,000. The crash happened on Sloane St. in London, England.





Thanks, as always, to our friends at WreckedExotics.com for e-mailing us with the photos and video.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Join Us to Stop Ferrari Abuse!

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris - Another senseless tragedy
We like to stay out of politics. . . but on this issue our hackles have been raised! In the past week we reported 2 poor, defenseless Ferraris destroyed by senseless offroading. Today we add a third.

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris - F458 Italia Used for Offroading
Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is an F458 Italia driven by what we are sure is a mature 18 year old from Norway. Sadly, the immense wealth of his parents could not buy knowledge that Ferraris cannot conquer all terrains, do not have 18" of ground clearance and have not been tested on the surface of Mars. Some argue that Ferrari has never made any of these claims and that most fools can tell that a Ferrari should be driven on pavement. The evidence is clearly to the contrary and until a permanent solution can be found, we think fools and their Ferraris should be parted. Send us your Ferrari and we guarantee not to off road it for you. 

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris - F458 Italia destroyed by ignorant off roading
Please send your abused Ferraris along with generous donations to:

    Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris (SPCF)
    c/o Almost Everything Auto Body
    37414 Centralmont Place
    Fremont, California 94536
    USA

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris - You can help prevent this type tragedy

Won't you do your part? Tell Ferrari to stop promoting off road use of these innocent supercars! Leave the mud and boulders to Land Rover, Jeep and Steyr-Daimler-Puch.

Note: despite the severity of the crash, the driver was uninjured. And thankfully, no one at the school where this crash took place was hurt. Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for our regular doses of exotic car mayhem.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Ferrari FF and F355 Destroyed in Offroad Adventures

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is not one but 2 different Ferraris used for off roading. Sadly this isn't the first time we've joked about a Ferrari being used as a Jeep. The first wreck comes from Lancashire, England where an Oakley Design tuned Ferrari FF worth about US$300,000 stopped running up this hill when it finally hit a tree!

Ferrari FF Offroad adventure

The second set of photos comes from Germany where a farmer was using his Ferrari F355 to plow his field. We are only speculating but it seems obvious that either an angry bull or a belligerent gang of llamas rolled the Ferrari several times.

Ferrari F355 mishap while plowing a field in Germany
Ferrari F355 mishap while plowing a field in Germany
Ferrari F355 mishap while plowing a field in Germany
Thankfully, both the farmer and the hill climber survived these crashes with few if any injuries.

Thanks to our buddies at WreckedExotics.com for always providing us with expensive mayhem.


Monday, March 3, 2014

Nissan GT-R End-Over

Nissan GT-R Roll-over Crash
Here's something you don't see everyday. Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a Nissan GT-R Racer. In the video several GT-Rs pass by during the 2014 Long Tom Hill Climb race in the town of Sabie, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The last car takes the turn a little too fast, flips several times before disappearing down a ravine. This was the fourth run of the day for 47 year old driver Wilhelm Baard. Fortunately he was not seriously injured and attended the awards ceremony at the end of the event. Baard won South Africa's Knysna Hill Climb in 2011 in a GT-R.



The 2014 Long Tom Hill Climb took place on January 25th and 26th. It was sponsored by Renault (Nissan's parent) and the Sports Car Club of South Africa. The race covers 6.3 km (3.9 miles) along the banks of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The next video shows cars leaving the starting line and beginning their assault on the hill. The sounds are great.




Many thanks to the spectators who recorded these videos, our friends at WreckedExotics.com who reliably find an astonishing amount of this type stuff on a daily basis, and to AutoEvolution who provided us with the background story and more images of the event.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Video of 3 Lamborghinis on Fire!

Lamborghini Aventador Gallardo accident fire wreck
We approach this with some guilty glee. You know we love reporting burning super cars. Today's Wreck of the Day is a trifecta. A group of 5 Lamborghinis were travelling in convoy from the city-state of Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The middle car lost traction and crashed into the center divide. The car behind it (not sure if it was the ugly BMW or one of the other Lamborghinis) crashed into an additional 2 cars then a bus hit the lot of them. Somehow 3 of the Lamborghinis, an Aventador and 2 Gallardos, ended-up on top of each other. Being Lamborghinis, they, of course, burst into flames. And there's video! Director Norazam of the local fire and rescue reported that drivers & passengers escaped without injury.







Lamborghini Aventador, Gallardo need extensive collision repair


Lamborghini Aventador in need of auto body repair

Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for sending us the links, Ilmu Pendoman Hidup for the back story and additional photos, sriganesh2005 and The Malay Mail Online for even more video and details!

Monday, December 2, 2013

Porsche 911 Marianas

Porsche 911 sunken wreck

Almost Everything announces major automotive breaking news. We believe these photos prove beyond reasonable doubt that Porsche is developing a 911 for underwater use. Ing. Dr. Franz Helmut Martin von Düsseldorf says, "Porsche and, indeed, all of Germany, has felt the need to field a supercar-submarine ever since Lotus purportedly accomplished the feat for the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me." Our news follows billionaire Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk's announcement to also develop a road-going submarine based on the James Bond Lotus.

The tests are being secretly conducted in Jinan, China. Our keen spy photography network allowed us to obtain & provide these photos. Of course, Porsche has made no comment to us and has so far neither admitted nor denied working on a street racing submarine.

Almost Everything has nicknamed this 911 the "Marianas" after the unrivaled Pacific trench.

Porsche 911 sinks in lake in Jinan China
Here can be seen what Almost Everything has dubbed the "911 Marianas" emerging from a test dive.

Special thanks to our great friends at WreckedExotics.com who provided the photos for this story (not to imply that they believe a word of it.)

Monday, November 25, 2013

2013 Ferrari F12 Put Out to Pasture

Ferrari, F12, Auto Body Damage, Collision Repair
Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a brand new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta out for a test drive along the scenic lake front of the small town of Breukeleveen, Netherlands. Regio14.nl reports that the driver and his grandson were in the car when it lost control, rolled & hit a tree. Both occupants were able to exit the car without injuries.



We liked Paul Sliggers' comment on the Regio14.nl website that "The prancing horse is grazing." And Ton de Ruijter quipped, "Very fast, but do you have this in green. . . ?"

Collision Repair, Ferrari, F12
Here's what a Ferrari F12 Berlinetta looks like before being driven into a tree



Thanks to our buddies at WreckedExotics.com who find and distribute this type mayhem to us.

Monday, October 21, 2013

"It's Just a Little Ding"

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a Mercedes E-Class. This is what we imagine when customers say "There's just one small dent." We can only joke about this horrific accident because, amazingly, WreckedExotics.com reports the driver of the Mercedes "walked away without a scratch."

Car squeezed between truck & barrier on freeway
E-Class crushed under truck on highway
The accident happened in Belgium. The truck had a tire blowout and suddenly lurched into the Mercedes' lane.


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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Tesla Model S Crash

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a 2013 Tesla Model S--the first one we know of to wreck. Almost Everything is located about 5 miles from the Tesla factory so we are fortunate to have Tesla employees as customers and to see Teslas every day.

This was a serious crash but the driver was uninjured.  In addition to being blindingly fast, handling better than virtually anything on the road and getting the best fuel efficiency, the National Highway Safety Administration says the Model S is the safest car ever tested. We want one.

Thanks to our buddies at WreckedExotics.com for sending us more photos to cry over.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Another Exotic Car Immolates Itself

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a Ferrari F430 Spyder. We've had a recent facination with absurdly expensive sports cars turning themselves to ashes. This one was parked in Florida when WreckedExotics.com says it "spontaneously combusted." Somehow reminds us of the song "I'm Too Sexy." These cars have so much potential that sometimes they just can't contain it and suddenly blow up without warning.

Ferrari F430 Spontaneously Combusts in Florida
Ferrari F430 Spontaneously Combusts in Florida

Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for the photos. Look for more exotic car mayhem at their site!

Monday, August 19, 2013

Jaguar F-Type In Cinders

This makes it official. The new Jaguar F-Type is a true exotic. Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is the barely introduced Jaguar F-Type that has already spontaneously combusted, just like the best from Lamborghini and Ferrari.

Jaguar F-Type in flames

Jaguar F-Type burns to ground

Jaguar F-Type burns to ground

Jaguar was kind enough to let the Almost Everything team drive a few F-Types on the runway at Alameda Naval Air Station a few weeks ago. The 'F' in F-Type stands for Fast and Furious. We like!

However these are NOT the photos from Joel's test drive--only the tires were smoldering when he got out. Instead, these come from Belgium via our good friends at WreckedExotics.com. The driver escaped unharmed and reported that the car simply caught fire on an off ramp. F may also stand for Flamable.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Ferrari 599 GTO Wreck

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a 2012 Ferrari 599 GTO (one of 599 built.) The driver sped through a blind turn at 4:30 AM and found a truck coming at him. He managed to avoid the truck but slid into a tree, a wall and a lamp post before coming to a stop. The driver walked away unhurt before the car burst into flames and burned to the ground.

2012 Ferrari 599 GTO Crash in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2012 Ferrari 599 GTO Crash in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2012 Ferrari 599 GTO Crash in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2012 Ferrari 599 GTO Crash in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Ferrari 599 GTO
Ferrari 599 GTO--the way it should look

Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for alerting us to the destruction of another exotic car. Thanks also to Jean Paul Fondeur Gil, THEKARMANN for additional details and photos.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Video of One-of-a-Kind Lamborghini Crash

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a one-of-a-kind Lamborghini concept supercar called the Giugiaro Parcour. This past weekend at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS) the Giugiaro Parcour was participating in the Supercar Run and spun off the race track into a hay bale wall. The damage is certainly repairable but the video is still hard to watch.

Lamborghini Giugiaro Parcour crashes at Goodwood Festival of Speed


Goodwood Estate where the Festival of Speed is held every year
Goodwood Estate where the Festival of Speed is held every year

As is so often the case, our buddies across the Bay at WreckedExotics.com alerted us to this automotive tragedy.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Betting Against Large Trucks

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4. Now if the contest is pure speed we'll take the Lambo over the truck every time. But when the game is "chicken". . . 

Lamborghini Aventador vs. Big Truck

Truck wins, again.

Even when we are 90% sure that we'll squeeze through before the truck, we try to be gracious and allow the truck to go first on the chance that the truck could squash us like a bug and not even notice it.

We have been hunting for some better photos of this crash but so far, no luck. If you find some, send them our way. These came from our buddies over at WreckedExotics.com

Monday, June 10, 2013

Photos & Video of Bentley Continental GT Burning to the Ground

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is yet another Bentley Continental GT in flames. Unilke last time, the fire was mostly the owner's fault and partly the fault of the illegal street racers that he ran into (we don't think the Bentley was connected to the street race.) Witnesses reported (and video shows) that he was heading from the airport to Minsk, Belarus at an extreme rate of speed when he crashed into a VW and then 3 other vehicles in the middle of the street for a drag race. You can see a large group of people scattering from the middle of the street right after the crash. The driver escaped before the Bentley caught fire.

Bentley Continental GT bursts into flames after high speed crash


Bentley Continental GT bursts into flames after high speed accident
Bentley Continental GT burns at side of road after high speed accident
Bentley Continental GT burns at side of road after high speed accident
What is left of Bentley Continental GT after high speed crash & fire
Nothing left of Bentley Continental GT after high speed crash & fire

Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for sending us the photos. The rest of the story & video is courtesy of LiveLeak.com.

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