For most of us a Bugatti Veyron or a Lamborghini Aventador are only ever going to be owned in a dream. This does not mean we cannot enjoy these most luxurious of cars and aspire to one day be in a position to own the latest, fastest and most desirable cars, they often at their most enjoyable when their incredibly rich owner does something incredibly dumb in them.
Just take a moment to think about those that have just purchased their dream car, they are on the way back from the showroom, proud and beaming from ear to ear and then it happens. The car is too powerful, or they underestimate a corner and end up on a YouTube ‘supercar fails’ compilation video. Not the ideal way to show off your latest purchase, but it at least allows you and me to have a little smile at their (considerable) expense.
Below are 5 of our favourite supercar fails, showing you that showing off doesn’t always pay off. The only thing hurt in these videos was pride and those beautiful and very expensive cars.
Nissan GT-R – The Flying Car?
Just because you have all those horses doesn’t mean they all need to gallop at once, as the driver of this Nissan GT-R found out. Yes, being stuck behind a slow pickup truck can be frustrating but you need to gauge the road ahead when overtaking. Commence high-speed overtaking on a bouncy bit of road, just before a roundabout; as you can imagine it doesn’t turn out too well for this poor car. This video does show that we may just be closer to flying cars than we thought.
Bugatti Veyron – The Floating Car?
In one of the more bizarre supercar fails, the driver of this Bugatti Veyron appears to be admiring the scenery of the upcoming lake a little bit too much. It’s a lovely winter day and you are enjoying your £1 million car, not using excessive speed or doing anything out of the ordinary – unlike most other supercar fails – when all of a sudden you veer of course straight into that lake you’ve been admiring.
Whilst not necessarily the biggest or most epic supercar fail, you can’t help but wince at a £1 million car taking a swim.
Lamborghini Gallardo – Suburban Supercar
There is just something about supercars that make people want to film them. It’s not every day you see a Lamborghini Gallardo at a red light, so naturally the first thing you reach for is your video camera to record this chance meeting. Unfortunately for the driver of this £200,000 car, we are about to see him oversteer and incredibly squeeze himself between two cars.
If there is anywhere you don’t want to make a fool of yourself it is at the traffic lights, even less so when you are in the suburbs of one of the largest cities in America.
Off-Road Testing a Lamborghini Gallardo
The first thing that I think about when I look at a Lamborghini is ‘I bet that’s a good off roader’. The driver of this Gallardo wanted to test out the theory that Lamborghinis are better than Land Rovers. Clearly they are faster off road but if you don’t apply the brakes there’s only one place you are going to end up – in the dealership with a large bill to pay.
Ferrari Enzo – Making the News
You’re a famous comedian and have the pleasure of test driving someone else’s Ferrari Enzo. With only 400 ever produced the Enzo is a car where its value is increased each time there is a crash involving one, they are just so limited. The pressure of being on local news, driving someone else’s car and knowing there are so few Enzo’s in the world obviously got to Eddie Griffin in one of the worst understeering incidents you are likely to see.
Amazingly the owner came out of his Enzo being crashed on TV quite happy. He posed for photos with his Enzo wreck, had his insurance pay out 50% of his initial $650,000 cost and sold the wreckage for another $500,000. Not too horrendous for a chance meeting with a concrete barrier.
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