Posted on: Sep 10, 2012 | 42,168 reads

Ferrari F40 Crashed in Vancouver

470 horsepower - traction control + wet road = crash. Canadian driver learns supercar math the hard way.

Ferrari may have produced more F40s than originally planned, but with a total of 1,315 made, it's still a rare beast, and a highly-coveted performance machine. It's with a heavy heart, then, that we report that one such supercar has been involved in what appears to have been a rather serious crash. A notoriously difficult car to drive, the F40 was the first street-legal production vehicle to break 200 mph. Light-weight with a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V8, the F40 had none of the electronic safety features we'd expect to find in any car today.

The F40 was reportedly on its way back from a car show in western Canada when the driver lost control on a wet road and spun out into a telephone pole. The wreckage left the $500,000 supercar in dire condition. The damage may be reparable, but the F40 will likely never drive the same again. Fortunately neither driver nor passenger were seriously hurt.

by Noah Joseph
Ferrari F40 Crashed in Vancouver

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Ferrari F40 Crashed in Vancouver

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