Another Enzo destroyed in Nice, France.

Russian driver & passenger badly burnt according to local paper this morning

http://www.nicematin.fr/paper_viewer.php?filename=NICE_nice&h=580&w=780

 

thats 'Nice' as in France, not 'Nice' as is lovely

 

Takes a while to download but, damn - that car is a goner....
Is this the first black Enzo wreck??

 

Are you sure Poppy? This is a good news

 

http://xs309.xs.to/xs309/06470/enzocrash.jpg

 

oh my...thats really a terrible wreck. how can the car split into two with 60 mph crash? really terrible. is the car repaireable?

 

It's designed to split in half to dissipate shock. This is the reason one should have a fire system. Repairable? For a huge price using a replacement chassis.

 

Kerimov? THAT Kerimov?
Owner of Nafta Moskva?

 

Would that then carry its original chassis number?

 

NNO wrote a very interesting article in Ferrari Market Letter about an Enzo that was rebuilt at the factory after a crash and burn in which he wrote that that happened.

 

Here's the pic. Get well soon.
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The Houston ZO... I remember that one. Video of it burning is prob still out on the net.

 

Is it really true that the Enzo is designed to split in halves?
I was a physics major back in the days (long time ago ), and I don't see how that would help.


I've been seeing quite a lot of Enzo splitting in halves in crashes. I can think of the Erikkson crash in Malibu and the crash in Malaysia just off the top of my head.

 

Anyone have a link to the Ferrari Market Letter article?

 

James Bond are you here?

After the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London (how picturesque!) somebody wanted to take its revenge > Putin's friend Enzo sabotage - in Nice (how picturesque!²).

 

Breaking apart like that disapates lots of energy. Rather then building the chassis so strong that if it hits anything all the energy goes into the humans. Indy cars were some of the first to develop that because drivers were dying from hitting the wall at low speeds.

Sorry to see that. Perhaps they were only going 60MPH and slid into the tree sideways. Not much distance between sections of the car like in previous crashes.

 

oy!

 

Malaysia? the Enzo here is still safe and in one piece. in fact, i just visited her at the showroom this afternoon. ur talking about the F40?

 

New conspiracy theory ................

 

As other people said....dissipates energy from force of accident. Also seperates passenger compartment from engine compartment to minimize possibility of engine or engine components coming through the firewall and crushing the occupants.

 

Not to get too off-topic but, an F40 split in half? I want to hear the story.

 

Russian Billionaire Kerimov in Critical Condition After Crash
2006-11-26 12:01 (New York)


By Rudy Ruitenberg and Todd Prince
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Russian billionaire and
parliamentarian Suleiman Kerimov was hospitalized in critical
condition at Marseille's major burns center after his Ferrari
crashed and burst into flames in Nice on the French Riviera.
Kerimov, 40, was transported by helicopter to the Centre
Regional des Grands Brules in Marseille, where he arrived early
yesterday evening, after his condition was stabilized in Nice,
said Denis Burgarella, a spokesman for Assistance Publique
Hopitaux de Marseille.
Kerimov, worth $7.1 billion according to Forbes magazine,
crashed his Ferrari Enzo around 3:30 p.m. yesterday on the
Promenade des Anglais, the boulevard that runs along the Nice
shoreline, according to a spokesman for the Police Nationale who
declined to be identified according to regulations. The sports
car caught fire and Kerimov was ``seriously injured,'' according
to the spokesman.
Kerimov ranked No. 72 in Forbes magazine's annual survey of
the world's richest people published in March. His wealth derives
from stakes in OAO Gazprom, Russia's natural-gas export monopoly,
and OAO Sberbank, eastern Europe's largest bank. He also owns OAO
MNPO Polymetal, Russia's biggest silver miner.
He hired Merrill Lynch & Co. to make his investment company
OAO GNK Nafta Moskva one of the world's top private-equity firms,
the London-based Times newspaper reported in August.
Kerimov also is a member of the Duma, the lower house of the
Russian parliament.
A female passenger in the black Ferrari was also injured,
Agence France-Presse reported, citing police.
Hospital spokesman Burgarella declined to comment on
Kerimov's survival chances, saying a patient must be in a stable
condition for 48 hours for an assessment.
Kerimov was born in Dagestan in Russia's Caucasus region.

 

Glad to hear they got out Alright, Sad to see another Enzo go! Especially a black one!

 

All right???? They are far, far from all right. Please do consider a fire system in all your cars...