This news report from Malibu California regarding a street race between an Enzo and some expensive Benz ended up with the Ferrari split in two. Watch the video from the box on the right side.

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_052110615.html

I think that's the second Enzo to be split in 2 and a 3rd caught fire...they're dropping like flies!!

It also seems to be quite common for modern Ferraris to disintegrate in this manner....regardless of the model.

Obviously money can buy the car, but it can't buy the talent or the brains.

That woman behind the news desk looks like a porn star!!

Not that i would know of these things of course!!

I think the enzo splits like this because of the carbon fibre monocoque, which is basically the cockpit part left behind and the rear is made up of a stressed engine and gearbox, so if the engine gets broken away from the monocoque then the whole rear end goes with it leaving the car in half.

Dodgy excuse if you ask me.

"Were you driving sir?"

"Err.... ...no ........ it was a German..... err.... yeah... a German!"

[Edited on 22/2/06 by greggors84]

I was going to post something similar infact. The front section of the car is all CF and the engine is kind of glued to the back of that, remember ferrari use the engine as the chassis at the rear of the car (effectively). So in a crash the engine is likely to become detached from the cab but leaving the cab intact.

It amazes me that he managed to lose it on a straight road...!

David

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Originally posted by flak monkey

It amazes me that he managed to lose it on a straight road...!

David

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Back in the mid-1960s at a track now called Portland International Raceway, I saw a Corvette do the same thing (break in two) after broadsiding into a phone pole. His right side tires had hit a puddle as he was accelerating and the car immediately went sideways.

They needed two tow trucks to lift the car onto its trailer - front and rear were only connected by a little bit of rocker on the left side.

As in the Ferrari case, the driver walked away from the wreck.

im fairly sure its designed to do that. the engine and suspension brak off from the cabin absorbing energy and reducing the likelyhood of the engine penetrating the cabin.

Bags I first dibs on the engine