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VIDEO: Super expensive supercar accidents

Some people should just never buy a so-called ‘supercar’ because they simply can’t – or won’t - control it on the road. As this video shows, money is no indicator of brains, let alone driving ability. Whether it’s a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce, they all crumple as if they were a lowly family sedan. It just costs a little more to put expensive vehicles back together again, if at all physically possible. And some of these examples in the video will never be back on the road. Neither should their driver
March 24, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Some people should just never buy a so-called ‘supercar’ because they simply can’t – or won’t - control it on the road.

As this video shows, money is no indicator of brains, let alone driving ability.

Whether it’s a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce, they all crumple as if they were a lowly family sedan. It just costs a little more to put expensive vehicles back together again, if at all physically possible.

And some of these examples in the video will never be back on the road. Neither should their drivers.

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