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One person received an expensive lesson today after losing control of a rare Ferrari F40 on Australia’s Gold Coast. The driver lost control of the iconic exotic red Italian that hit a ditch that sent the car speeding down a row of trees on the side of the road in Nerang, Queensland. By chance, we stumbled across these photos from the Ferrari F40 crash on the All Street Facebook page.
The impact of the crash caused the front of the car to separate from the rest of the vehicle with the bumper bar completely broken, shown in the butcher shop photos. Furthermore, the car’s mirrors were broken and the plate is crooked. The Ferrari hit the trees with such force that a street light collapsed on the exotic.
If this was a true Ferrari F40 involved in the crash and not a replica or clone, the car is estimated to be around $ 2.3 million, since that’s the price of a similar car for sale. Commenters on social media quickly realized that the car carried dealer license plates.
This was not only a costly mistake after damage to the Ferrari F40, but the driver was also fined for losing control of the vehicle. No reason was given for why the driver pulled off the road, but it could be a number of reasons like distraction or drifting off to lose a random object. Plus, any inexperienced driver with that much barrel power could quickly and easily escape control.
Built between 1987 and 1992, the Ferrari F40 is powered by a 2.9-liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine and intercooler that generates 471 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 426 pound-feet of torque at 4,000 rpm, according to the Italian automaker. Output power, gear, and torque curves varied between cars.
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