Oh, your weekend wasn’t all that great? Maybe the weather was crummy or perhaps the pizza guy jacked up your order and delivered you someone else’s pie. Did you happen to wreck a $300,000 car the day after you bought it about a mile from a Cars and Coffee event? Oh, you didn’t? Some guy in Northern Virginia did and while he was abel to walk away, his less than 24-hour old McLaren was left as a battered and destroyed hulk on the side of the rural road where he “encountered” the tree at a high rate of speed.
Listen, we’re honestly glad that the guy was able to walk away but this is crazy. How is it that weekly from points across the nation, Cars and Coffee attendees make headlines wrecking their junk. Thankfully this one just involved a tree and a supercar but other times there are families, kids, and whoever else involved in these types of things and that’s when we all, and by all I mean the entire automotive enthusiast world looks really bad.
Every day we creep closer to autonomous cars. Every day we creep closer to a day when driving yourself is going to be a choice. Stuff like this hastens that process and gives the jackasses caterwauling about performance cars and why no one “needs them” more ammunition.
Whether it is a 1976 Pinto worth $300 or a McLaren worth $300,000 keep it out of the headlines…at least these kind.
News link: This guy wrecked a $300,000 McLaren 720s in a day
They recently (last week) shut down my favorite C&C (Blackhawk, Ca) because of the actions of a small group of drivers on site (loud revving, air horns, straight exhaust) and burnouts and donuts in surrounding neighborhoods, it was a great location (near Blackhawk Automotive Museum) and generally a very nice and friendly group of enthusiasts. SAD
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Ha ha ha ha!
Poor guy’s substitute for a tiny tool has been totaled….