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Carrera GT Slips off Mulholland Dr.
I hear this happened this weekend up on Mulholland Dr.
Images were posted on Ferrari Chat... 
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Goodness! This is what happens when people buy cars far too powerful for their own good.
I heard somewhere that of all the CGTs sold to the public, a third have been crashed. What do you bet somewhere Ralph Nader is laughing his watchdog hiney off?
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Put another notch on the chalkboard. sigh.
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Didn't 'The Stig' from Top Gear have some trouble when handling the Carrera GT also?
Seems like it's quite easy to lose control in this car.
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Was Dietrich driving?
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Looks like he got off easy compared to some of the other C-GT offs.
Just some scrapes on the belly that no one will see, and some serious stains in the driver's seat. |
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Could somebody grab me a hose?
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This is what happens when P AG sells these cars to just anyone with the money (instead of giving them to us free).
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That really shows the stiffness of the chassis, the door gap still looks pretty good.
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Where on Mulholland did this happen? I've seen a few cars go off on canyon roads around Malibu- the Hangover rally from a few years ago comes to mind. That time I laughed at the ugly yellow monstrosity, though. Anyone who was there will remember.
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That's why I won't retrofit MY 911 with those yellow brakes.
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Bad news for you guys, they are wrecking another one intentionally for a tv show called "REDLINE" on the El Toro Air Base. Read this in the register last week. They are going to be simulating the Las Vegas airport and a race of some kind. They have pulled the engine though for a transplant, anybody interested??
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Plausibly the single most embarrassing moment in that drivers life.
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That's not Mulholland, it's Stunt Rd.
I heard from the person who was driving the Lamborghini in front of him that he was driving a bit too aggressively and lost it. Had the ground been dry, the car would've gone over the ledge, the mud caught/slowed the car down and it see-sawed until the tow-truck came and pulled it back over. Minimal skin damage to the car, driver/passenger totally unharmed. The car finished the drive and the owner and his wife even showed up to lunch afterward in Westlake.
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I love the fact that those guys are too rich to just move the car, so they stand around and take pictures of it.
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