Jackasses Destroy a Fleet of Ferraris

One Sunday about a month ago, I was driving my family to Himeji. It was a drizzly early morning on the Chugoku Expressway, and I just cleared Kobe. To my right, a trio of Lancia Delta Integrales came whizzing by.

Within moments, an Aston Martin zoomed by, being tailed by an Alfa Romeo Alfasud, splashing through the rain.

While younger Japanese are less interested in cars, older Japanese still love them—especially foreign cars. Being a gearhead is an “ossan” (“old dude”) pursuit, largely because of all the money involved. It wasn’t always like that here, with young men, now old, spending all their money and free time on their cars.

https://lastchance.cc/we-love-cars-does-japan-still-5700946%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Knowing how car enthusiasts like to use rural strips of the motorway for their own version of Ridge Racer, I wasn’t surprised when I saw that exotic car carnage on the news: dead Ferraris.

The result was a super car super smash-up. This Sunday morning on the Chugoku Expressway, fourteen cars were involved in a major pile-up on an expressway. Included in the crash, according to the Yomiuri News, were eight Ferraris, three Mercedes, one Lamborghini, and two Toyota, one of which was a Prius.

Catch the Japanese news clip on sister site Jalopnik

https://jalopnik.com/massive-japanese-crash-claims-eight-ferraris-three-ben-5864856

For gamers, this brings back memories of the Gizmondo Ferrari Enzo car crash

http://lastchance.cc/158471/gizmondo-crash-continues-to-baffle%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

The sports cars were part of a convoy, NHK reported, headed to a Hiroshima from Kyushu. Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police unit, told Bloomberg that this was a “gathering of narcissists”.

According to Bloomberg, the 60-year-old could face up to three months jail time or a $1,280 fine.

A drop in the bucket compared to the repair costs.

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(Top photo: AP)