World's Worst Liar/Dietrich is Irish!!! Its that Ferrari story okay, thread!

Ernie Ball

"Yes, officer, that's my Ferrari Enzo. And, yes, I've had a few. But you see, I wasn't driving the car when it crashed at 100mph and split in half. It was some German guy. Some guy named Dietrich. Yeah, that's the ticket. And he ran off."

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

Fey!

Wasn't the Enzo only available if you were deemed worthy to be asked "do you want to buy one" by Ferrari???

I guess the owner of that one is off Ferraris Christmas card list!!!

drdre

what the hell, they will fiind out who was driving it from the reg plate or from chassis number.

its not hard to find who was driving a car.

Seth Brundle

drdre wrote:

what the hell, they will fiind out who was driving it from the reg plate or from chassis number.

its not hard to find who was driving a car.

That will reveal who owns it - not who was driving it.
However, the blood on the drivers airbag should reveal the identity of the driver.

Did the news reader have a lot of cosmetic surgery or are my eyes just tired?

unkel

5 down, 396 to go

Was he racing an SLR?

mike65

'These damned euro-trash' is the subtext of that feature!

Mike.

More pics here -> http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/news/more-on-the-enzo-incident-on-pch-with-photos-156121.php

SouperComputer

LOL, the survial cell held up well though.

drdre

the driver is very lucky to survive

Anan1

"Wasn't the Enzo only available if you were deemed worthy to be asked "do you want to buy one" by Ferrari???

I guess the owner of that one is off Ferraris Christmas card list!!!"

On the contrary, I'd say Ferrari wish all their customers were like that! He buys another car, Enzo values rise as supply falls, what's not to like about that?

SouperComputer

drdre wrote:

the driver is very lucky to survive

Nah, its not anywhere near as bad as it looks. The engine etc is designed to detach during an accident to reduce the momentum of the vehicle. So although it may look like "the car split in half" it's actually meant to do that.

Anan1

Anan1 wrote:

"Wasn't the Enzo only available if you were deemed worthy to be asked "do you want to buy one" by Ferrari???

I guess the owner of that one is off Ferraris Christmas card list!!!"

On the contrary, I'd say Ferrari wish all their customers were like that! He buys another car, Enzo values rise as supply falls, what's not to like about that?

Apparentlly it is likelly the factory will build him another one. No free of charge of course...

prospect

Authorities have identified the owner of a Ferrari Enzo that virtually disintegrated in a collision with a power pole yesterday morning on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

L.A. County sheriff's department officials say 44-year-old Stefan Ericksson says he was a passenger in the car that had been worth some $1 million. He says the driver was a German acquaintance he knew only as Dietrich. He says Dietrich ran into the hills after the collision.

But officials tell the L.A. Times they're skeptical of Ericksson's version of events. Deputies say Ericksson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.09, slightly more than the legal 0.08 limit. Plus, only the driver's side air bag deployed and it had blood on it.

Ernie Ball

The original story I linked to had all that information. Guess they changed it.

unkel

ronoc wrote:

Apparentlly it is likelly the factory will build him another one

Interesting. Any links for that? Afaik Enzo production was limited. They're not being built anymore

Ernie Ball

Just when you thought that this story had reached maximum ridiculousness:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8040875409&indexURL=0#ebayphotohosting

Our man in Havana

Ernie Ball wrote:

Just when you thought that this story had reached maximum ridiculousness:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8040875409&indexURL=0#ebayphotohosting

FFS! the yanks will buy and sell anything. Probably a fake anyways!

Ernie Ball

The Q&A on that auction page is priceless, especially this:

"Q: I want it. It was just a test drive, I made Erikkson an offer he couldn't refuse, but he did. So now I get it this way. Thanks for picking up the piece. I own the towing company too. -Dietrich
Feb-21-06"

"A: Winner response. Mind if I post it? Oh what the hell, I'll post it anyway "

unkel

Some of the Q&As are funny

Oh and it was an SLR then racing the Enzo?

colm_mcm

unlikely that you'd let a guy who you don't have a surname for drive your Ferarri......

Ernie Ball

Q: safety: are there any bihoazards on this piece? ie, blood, hair, bodily fluids?. i wouldnt want to catch richdouschebagitis.
Feb-21-06

A: Not sure, but if you live in Corona you have probably become immune to biohazards. Bid with confidence.

unkel

colm_mcm wrote:

unlikely that you'd let a guy who you don't have a surname for drive your Ferarri......

Unless it is Dietrich of course

colm_mcm

unkel wrote:

Unless it is Dietrich of course

Cool name for an imaginary friend!

unkel

colm_mcm wrote:

Cool name for an imaginary friend!

Someone in the know told me that Dietrich beat the Stig hands down :eek:

FX Meister

Anan1 wrote:

"Wasn't the Enzo only available if you were deemed worthy to be asked "do you want to buy one" by Ferrari???

I guess the owner of that one is off Ferraris Christmas card list!!!"

On the contrary, I'd say Ferrari wish all their customers were like that! He buys another car, Enzo values rise as supply falls, what's not to like about that?

So the value rises, that's no good to Ferrari as they have already sold the cars.

unkel

What a twist!

Indeedy

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054893530&highlight=dietrich

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054915417&highlight=dietrich

Anan1

FX Meister wrote:

So the value rises, that's no good to Ferrari as they have already sold the cars.

Of course it is. Higher used values improve brand image and help to justify higher prices for future limited-edition cars.

drdre

Anan1 wrote:

Of course it is. Higher used values improve brand image and help to justify higher prices for future limited-edition cars.

yeah now because of afew enzo's written off the cars will increase in price as they will be a collectors item.;)

junkyard

I think a certain finance company were looking for that Ferrari. They found it now anyway, albeit in instalments the other way around this time.:D

I followed this Enzo story with great intrest.

What a twist

Our man in Havana

Nothing would surprise me!
Anyone got those pics of him from the papers yet?

drdre

junkyard wrote:

I think a certain finance company were looking for that Ferrari. They found it now anyway, albeit in instalments the other way around this time.:D

why were they looking for that ferrari.did the guy not pay his instalments or what

AJ!

The cars never officially belonged to him. His Merc SLR was reposessed the other week as well as his black Enzo.

mike65

Theads merging....

mike65

from Sunday Times this week.

CALIFORNIA police are looking for a Dublin car mechanic following the destruction of a $1m (€825,000) Ferrari in a 162mph (260kph) crash.

The Los Angeles sheriff’s department in Malibu believes Trevor Karney, who worked on the MTV series Pimp My Ride, was a passenger in the Ferrari Enzo when its owner, Stefan Eriksson, crashed it on the Pacific Coast Highway at 6am on February 21.



The gull-winged Enzo is one of only 400 made; other owners include the actor Nicolas Cage and musician Eric Clapton.

The car was due to be repossessed by a British finance company, but was split in two by the force of the crash.

Nobody in the vehicle was injured, apart from Eriksson sustaining a split lip, although debris from the accident left a trail of debris four football fields long.

Police believe Karney, 36, returned to Ireland shortly after the accident on the advice of Eriksson’s lawyer. They say the pair met through Pimp My Ride, when Eriksson was displaying his $3.5m car collection at a show organised by West Coast Customs, the company that “pimps out” cars for the MTV show.

Following the accident, Karney is said to have given police a home address in Marina del Rey, California. It turned out to be a boatslip that houses a $14m yacht owned by Eriksson’s partner in a collapsed videogame business.

Speaking from her home in Dublin last week, Karney’s mother, Patricia, said she did not know anything about the accident or that police wanted to speak to her son.

“It’s a bit of a shock. I still don’t know if you’re winding me up,” she said.

But detectives say they will be seeking a warrant for Karney’s arrest for allegedly giving false answers to sheriffs about the crash.

They also want to ask him about a magazine clip from a gun found in a car from which Karney is believed to have made a phone call following the accident.

Police have questioned Austin Raishbrook, a paparazzi photographer with the Splash news agency in Los Angeles and a former acquaintance of Karney’s. Raishbrook last week said he did not know of Karney’s whereabouts. “I knew him as a really nice guy. He was in the same apartment building, but that’s it,” he said.

Eriksson, 44, originally from Sweden and a former European head of the Gizmondo computer gaming company, which collapsed last year with more than $200m in debts, has been charged with grand theft auto for withholding his car collection from finance companies.

He was arrested at his $5m Bel-Air home last weekend. Police impounded a $500,000 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, which had been reported stolen in Britain. They say Eriksson’s $3.5m collection, which included a black Ferrari Enzo as well as the red one that was destroyed, should be returned to the finance companies that funded his lifestyle. Scotland Yard is also investigating ownership of one of the cars.

Gizmondo had been hailed by Eriksson and his partners as the next big home-video game centre, one that would compete with Nintendo and GameBoy. But the company collapsed spectacularly last year.

Jeff Cannon, a police spokesman, said Eriksson was being held without bail and that immigration authorities were blocking his release because they wanted to question him about his entry into America from Sweden.

Eriksson denied he was driving the Ferrari after an alcohol test showed he was over the legal limit.

Police believe he lied about Karney’s presence in the car and made up a story about a man named Dietrich being the driver and then disappearing. A police helicopter and mountain rescue units failed to locate “Dietrich”.

It is reported that some locals have tried to cash in on the crash. One person has sold a jar filled with the Ferrari debris on eBay for $5.

Mike.

monkeyfudge

Ah... the Gizmondo crowd...

So much misappropriation of funds went on in that company.

junkyard

But I'd say they had a good time by the looks of things.:D