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"Er, hi, it's the dealership here. Yeah, the Koenigsegg dealership, the one looking after your super-rare and ludicrously expensive CCX. Um, I'm afraid we have some rather bad news. We kind of, erm, crashed it. A lot."
A phone call, saying something along those lines, was made by a rather guilty dealership owner in New York last week. He had to 'fess up, after taking the customer's car for a blast around town and accidentally smashing it into some Armco, taking out a 911 GT2 for good measure...
Our friends at WreckedExotics.com were on the scene and took this picture (they must have a team of crash pixies patrolling the world's roads on the lookout for clumsy supercar drivers).
In the ranking of Worst Days of Your Life, that would sit somewhere around the top. Just next to ‘the day I tried a naked leap into a landmine pit'. Or something.
Maybe it was all the car's fault. We wonder if it had the Top Gear-spec wing? Remember the one?
Koenigsegg vs Armco
Dealer takes customer's rare CCX for a blast, turns it into a wreck
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Hristo commented on this article
at 12:53 pm on 26 October 2009
That's a wondefull shot,but today i was lookin arround in the wreckedexotics site and i found a very interesting crash it involves a prius a tuareg and e tesla it's a very amusing photograph.If someone looks at this and find it has potential you should i think publish it in the site.Here is it http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics2009oct26/23tesla_20091020_001.shtml.
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AshHorne commented on this article
at 01:05 pm on 26 October 2009
Can you imagine that phone call? The customer would be irate, the dealer all apologetic, and his boss says "Don't worry, it's coming out of your wages".
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Takk commented on this article
at 01:34 pm on 26 October 2009
Scrambled egg, anyone?
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120Y commented on this article
at 01:39 pm on 26 October 2009
would the dealer pay for a replacement? or something?
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Ferramborghini commented on this article
at 02:04 pm on 26 October 2009
Takk- Scrambled 'Segg would have been better. Anyway, what a massive ^&!*ng #&@t !
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