komp55

Sorry if this is a repost; I just saw this local story today.

A dumbsh*t father gave his 18 year old son a Ferrari F430. One week later, this is what is looks like now. Police said "speed" was a contributing factor in the accident. Both the kid and his buddy survived, but suffered severe burns.

Some people just have no common sense.

AKnight55

Speed was a factor? You don't say

PACougar

I'm confused do they mean the fire burnt quickly.

infantry

Lol, even if the speed was 1 mile an hour, it would technically still be a factor.

GT-ER

LOL...so true. Ít's always funny when the police blame excess speed on everything.

djrabbi

stupid indians

MIKESV8

indian? i say asian. the chinese kids at USF that come from china to study here get cars like these. i saw students with 430 scuderia's, murcielagos, aston martin V8 vantage, bentley mulsanne and other "cheap" cars like C63 coupes and M3's

djrabbi

The kid driving was Indian... It was on jalopnik last week.

Forrest Gump 9

Yup, same chit here at Ohio State. Brand new Lamborghini with temp tag, M5, M6, AMG, Bentley,......it's soo cheap here compare to their homeland.

djrabbi

Yeah... foreign cars are subject to 100%+ duties over there.

If a CLS63 is 100k here in US....they will pay $200k plus for the same car.

Forrest Gump 9

Some more than other, certain German cars in certain Asian countries are subject up to 700% tax. How fair is it for "free trade"?

Hellzno

dibs on wheels!

art_z

that should buff right out

Hulk

The father of this kid has no common sense at all! He should be thanking his lucky stars he still has a kid after that! This is also happening with AMGs lately because they have come down in price and parents think that it so nice that their son wants a 4 door yet have no idea that the car is extremely powerful and pretty easy to mod
Parents need to wake up and be more responsible

503C43 ////AMG

I'm betting being a dumbfuk was a contributing factor as well

djrabbi

I think in the article said that the kid took it out for a joy ride so I doubt this is the son's ferrari. Son probably as an AMG or M3 or M5 lol

Manuyc

jpohl402

Yes,
Some Asians are incredibly wealthy and buy their kids lots of expensive toys.

allenjdmb

1) the local news outlets have been to Ferrari Atlanta and spoken with management off camera. They have confirmed that this was a birthday gift for the 18 year old last week. 2) I wouldn't toss the term alive around too much. Both are burned over 80 percent of their body. Those of you who know anything about medicine know that the likelihood of survival is extremely small (infection). No matter what kind of bad judgements were made (and it sure looks like more than one) let's be respectful to the kids and families.

Hulk

I do have experience a burn victim, a freind that was badly burned and it was only about 25% was in ICU for months and was touch and go but he made a full recovery after a few months, 80% burns, the chances of living are very slim, again the responsibility lays on the parents, this screams nick hogan all over again, he put a kid in the hospital and he's a vegetable now, no 18 or even 21 year old kid should be driving a car with 400hp or over

AKnight55

I had my 55 when I was 21.. Im fine

Hulk

Did your parents buy it for you? Did they co-sign it for you? Or did they lend you the money?

AKnight55

None of the above

Hulk

Good for you and if you read what I posted it was all about parents buying it for their kids

AKnight55

Im aware.. He was 18, officially an adult..Some responsibility needs to be taken by the kid driving. This will certainly teach him a lesson