Ferraris on Fire ?

High performance machines are built with little to no compromise with a bias towards the most performance possible, this sometimes means less margin for things to go wrong and leads to the fires you see.

 

LoL....




And here we go again.....

 

HP = Heat + flamable liquid + Italian craftsmanship = Fire.

 

Far more "non Italian" cars catch fire every year. But no one bothers to take/post pictures.

Jedi

 

Far fewer Ferrari exist than "non Italian" cars. And tons of pictures are taken.

Why do you take it so personally that the F-cars that we love seem to have a higher percentage of car-b-ques than other makes? It happens, the things that make these cars real performers are also what make them more likly to catch fire.

 

ditto the above...

when a Chevy Cavalier or Ford Escort (or a Yugo for that matter) catches fire and burns, no one cares, so what.... it's not worth $.0001 to take a digital photo....happens every day, that's why we have fire stations in every neighborhood.

A picture of a burning Ferrari however is worth $$$$ .... esp. to a tabloid. It gives the masses something to sneer at, vis a vis the 1%.

by the way I am not part of the 1%, the 10% maybe, but not the 1%.

also, I am installing a CO2 fire suppression system in my Ferrari so I don't end up in the pages of some tabloid, standing on the shoulder watching my Ferrari burn to the ground.

 

+1 to this... I mean it isnt as if there is fire here, yet no smoke... $h1t happens...

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/01/ferrari-458-italia-recalled-fire-risk/

http://www.autoarabia.org/articles/537/Recall:%20Ferrari%20F355%20might%20catch%20fire%20-%20Exchange%20of%20Fuel%20distributor

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1032220_ferrari-recalls-1900-f430-spiders-at-risk-of-going-up-in-flames

Of course Porsche has had a few too

http://www.insideline.com/porsche/911/2012/2012-porsche-911-carrera-s-recalled-for-fire-risk.html

http://www.automotix.net/autorepair/recalls/porsche-944/

But this is all part of the "soul" and the "experience"! (I kid I kid!)

On a serious note... It isnt really about the fact that any mechanical object can catch fire... IMO it is more about *active and acknowledged recalls for engine fire conditions on >$100k automobiles* that is what catches people's interest more. The Cavalier has had engine fire recalls (I mean of course! No surprise right? LOL!), but people sort of expect it from a Cavalier. Part of the package!

 

Someone at Jalopnik must've hijacked soucorp's login.

Jalopnik: the only auto blog where 0 to 451 degree times matters more than 0 to 60 mph times.

 

I'm curious to how many of the fires that we see are really related to driver error versus build quality or age of the vehicle in certain situations.

 

Or "lit cigarette left next to open bottle of Jack" (possible in the case above )

 

I kind of want that on a T-Shirt -- (this is Matt from Jalopnik, btw).