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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...

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...

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...

Ferraris, flames, and foolage #FTL

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...

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...

A man driving a Ferrari 599 in a remote portion of Arizona escaped injury when the car sprung a fuel leak and caught fire.

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...

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...

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...

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...

If it comes from Italy, it should come with a fire extinguisher. Especially if it's a supercar.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...