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VIDEO: Heavy-footed driver in Budapest sends his LaFerrari spinning

Oops! Just a little too much pressure on the accelerator sent this €1 million (US$1.1 million) sports car spinning off onto a side trip into a couple parked cars in Budapest. He quickly decided to remove the registration plates and cover the vehicle. So what exactly did the poor man crash? LaFerrari is a limited production hybrid consisting of petrol engine and KERS, kinetic energy recovery system, as used in Formula One cars. It was unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Auto Show and around 500 of the less than
November 6, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Oops! Just a little too much pressure on the accelerator sent this €1 million (US$1.1 million) sports car spinning off onto a side trip into a couple parked cars in Budapest.

He quickly decided to remove the registration plates and cover the vehicle.

So what exactly did the poor man crash? LaFerrari is a limited production hybrid consisting of petrol engine and KERS, kinetic energy recovery system, as used in Formula One cars. It was unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Auto Show and around 500 of the less than 1,000kg cars have been built.

LaFerrari is a perhaps the modest 950bhp version of the more powerful FXX K which costs around €2.2 million (US$2.4 million), according to a write-up by %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Autocar Visit www.autocar.co.uk website false http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2015-ferrari-laferrari-fxx-k-engine-price-and-video false false%>.

Fewer than 40 of the FXX K were planned, and for a good reason. Power output of 1021bhp means it is available to an elite group of owner-drivers who will be entered into Ferrari’s XX driver development programme, according to Autocar.

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