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While it was a good weekend for the Scuderia Ferrari team in Malaysia this past weekend, the same can’t be said for the driver of this very sad looking F430. The smoldering heap you see here is the remains of an F430 hard-top--yes, the roof has completely disintegrated--that became engulfed in flames on a highway in Malaysia late last week. The driver of the car, a man in his 50s, was taking part in an exotic car convoy not too far from the Sepang International Circuit where the Malaysian Grand Prix is held. The driver is said to have noticed smoke emanating from the engine bay before...
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Ferrari FF Burns To The Ground In China
If you thought Ferrari’s fiery supercar woes were over following the official recall of its highly-flammable 458 Italia, you’d be wrong as the automaker’s latest model, the four-seat and four-wheel drive FF, has now joined the spontaneously-combustible club. The sorry-looking...
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Exclusive: Lamborghini Gallardo Catches Fire At Portland Auto Show
The Portland International Auto Show isn't exactly known as a hotbed of industry activity or product reveals. Nonetheless, there is often some attractive hardware on display, including, this year, at least one privately-owned Lamborghini Gallardo. Unfortunately, that Gallardo won't be making the...
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Lamborghini Gallardo Burns To The Ground In Prague: Video
News of a supercar on fire somewhere in the world is becoming almost commonplace these days. The latest is news of this bright orange Lamborghini Gallardo, which went up in flames on a road in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. While it’s unclear what was the cause of...
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Was Last Week The Worst Week In History For Ferrari Fans?
While supercar crashes are nothing new, last week was a particularly bad week for Ferrari fans across the globe. We reported the destruction of 11 Ferraris in a mere five days. Now let's take a look back at the carnage. Please, hold the tears until the end. First on our Ferrari destruction world...
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Hopefully the last in what may eventuate as one of the worst weeks in history for Ferrari owners, this black Ferrari F430, possibly a hardcore Scuderia model, suddenly caught fire while it was being driven down a stretch of road in Houston, Texas, earlier this week. A passerby managed to capture this video footage of the black Ferrari, confirming that the flames are likely to have emanated from the engine bay. According to Jalopnik, the driver managed to escape without injury though the car is almost certainly to be a complete write-off. As mentioned, this latest wrecked Ferrari caps off a...
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Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano Burns To the Ground In Dubai: Video
Seeing reports of a Ferrari on fire is starting to become a regular thing. Just weeks after we reported about a 599 GTB Fiorano that burned to the ground in Arizona comes yet another example suffering the same fiery fate, this time on a road in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The driver of the...
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Another One Bites The Dust: Ferrari 599 Burns In Arizona
A man driving a Ferrari 599 in a remote portion of Arizona escaped injury when the car sprung a fuel leak and caught fire.
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NHTSA Investigating MINI Cooper S Models For Engine Fires
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has decided to investigate the MINI Cooper S lineup for potential engine fires after 12 owners of 2007 and 2008 models complained that their cars had caught on fire. Of the 12 owners, eight said that their cars caught on fire after the...
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Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Burns To The Ground After Crashing Into Chevy Aveo
The LP640, as most of you would know, is an even higher performance version of the already potent Lamborghini Murcielago. It comes as no surprise then that the Italian thoroughbred commands a great deal of skill to drive at speed, something the 27-year old driver of this sad looking wreck has found...
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Lamborghini Gallardo Burns To A Crisp In Malaysia
There’s no shortage of rare supercars, old and new, burning to the ground in spectacular fashion all around the world. The latest is this poor Lamborghini Gallardo that went up in flames in Bukit Damansara, Malaysia. According to a report in local newspaper The Star, first picked up by...
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The driver of this Lamborghini Gallardo could only sit and watch as his pride and joy went up in flames.
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Racer Rolls Out Of Moving, Burning Car Mid-Track, Survives: Video
Fire. It's one of the biggest fears of many race car drivers, as even with the best of fire-retardant clothing and suppression systems, there's so much flammable material on board, things can go very wrong. Worse, when fire goes wrong, it happens quickly. Credit Tuka Rocha's quick-thinking to roll...
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Lamborghini Gallardo Gets Flame Broiled At Norwegian McDonald's
If it comes from Italy, it should come with a fire extinguisher. Especially if it's a supercar.
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1,000 Horsepower Ford GT Burns To The Ground: Video
We’re proud to admit the Ford GT is one of our favorite supercars here at MotorAuthority. An iconic design with just enough modern touches to make it look new, the Ford GT is hard not to love and its V-8 engine just begs to be pushed hard. So hard in fact that several aftermarket tuners have...
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Nissan GT-R Bursts Into Flames After Crashing Into Volkswagen Golf
This is the aftermath of a crash that occurred in Malaysia last week and involved the Nissan GT-R you see here engulfed in flames and a Volkswagen Golf GTI, which managed to get away with relatively minor damage. It’s believed the two cars were heading in opposing directions when they came...
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Snowpocalypse Strikes Back: Stuck Van Burns To The Ground
Those of you in the many snowbound cities across the north and midwest this morning know just how inconvenient the wintry precipitation can be. But at least it didn't set your car on fire. One unlucky van driver in Chicago can't say the same. Stuck in the snow in an intersection, the driver...
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Turns out the $800,000 warehouse fire suffered by Neil Young that we reported on last week was caused by the recording artist’s one-off LincVolt hybrid vehicle. The LincVolt isn’t a production model but a custom ride based on a 1959 Lincoln Continental packed with an electric motor, an array of batteries and a diesel-powered generator. According to fire officials, the flames started in the LincVolt and then spread to the rest of the warehouse and in the process engulfed hordes of memorabilia including guitars, photos, film canisters and crates of musical equipment. Thanks to the...
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Neil Young Loses $800,000 Car, Musical Collection In Fire
A fire in a San Carlos, California warehouse started at 2:55 a.m. local time this morning, and by the time the conflagration was under control at 3:45 a.m., Neil Young had lost $800,000 in classic cars and musical equipment. At least that's the early conclusion--the local news report from Mercury...
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Ferrari 458 Italia Bursts Into Flame Two Months After Recall
Back in September Ferrari issued an official recall of its still new 458 Italia supercar following a spate of reports of cars spontaneously combusting and burning to the point where they are no longer recognizable as even cars. In the past year there have been no less than ten different reports of...
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Highly Flammable Ferrari 458 Italia Recalled
We've been tracking the above-average tendency of the Ferrari 458 Italia to burst into flame or smash into immovable objects since its debut, but finally Ferrari has stepped in to admit there's something wrong with the car. Turns out the flaw is relatively minor, though the results can be...
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Video: Another 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia Goes Up In Flames
We wish someone were making this up. Maybe then we could explain how so many examples of the still new 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia have been damaged in such a short space of time. If you haven’t been counting, the tally already stands at 10 in the past 9 months--not including one car that was...
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First Wrecked Ferrari 458 Italia On U.S. Soil, Nine In Total
It’s hard to believe that in the past 90 days there have been a total of nine wrecked 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia supercars, or about one every ten days. The latest is the first to take place on U.S. soil and it appears to be because of an engine fire, a fate suffered by two other examples. It...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran