A young employee closed the billion-dollar F40

He had one task: to deliver the rare Ferrari safely to a nearby exhibition. Failed.

The Mechatronik car dealership in Piedelsheim, Germany is not an everyday showroom. There are, for example, such specialties as the McLaren Speedtail, the Porsche 911 Carrera 2.8 RSR, the Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 6×6 or the BMW 328 Wendler Sport Cabriolet. In other words, you can not only enjoy some of today’s most interesting sports cars, but real classics also appear from time to time.

Recently, a Ferrari F40 was sent to Böblingen, located just fifty kilometers away, to the Motorworld exhibition there. The task was entrusted to a 24-year-old employee, and although there was no problem for a while, the young colleague roughly slammed the car in a tunnel about 17 kilometers before the finish line. Fortunately, he himself was not injured, but the F40 was seriously damaged.

The nose section was broken the most, and the undercarriage position doesn’t look healthy at all. But there is a good chance that they will do everything to save it, because Ferrari produced only 1,311 units of the F40, and the specific copy was advertised for HUF 1.1 billion before the accident.

(The cover image is an illustration.)