If you tried to picture the world’s most expensive car crash, you’d probably imagine a whole bunch of banged up Ferraris and Lamborghini supercars from the modern era, but in this case it’s more about value than quantity.
In fact it was merely a two-car collision in which one of the vehicles was worth in the region of R255-million.
The car in question is an ultra-rare Ferrari 250 GTO that, according to the Daily Mail, was crashed in France recently.
Owner Christopher Cox, a businessman from the USA, was involved in an accident with another vehicle while en route to Le Mans while partaking in the 250 GTO 50th anniversary tour.
It’s not clear whether the vehicle was actually written off, nor whose fault it was, but given that the man’s wife reportedly suffered a broken leg, it must have been quite a shunt.
Cox’s GTO had an estimated value of £20-million (R255m). Another GTO, albeit one specifically built for Stirling Moss, recently sold for a record-breaking £22.7million (R290m).
Only 39 Ferrari 250 GTOs were ever built (between 1962 and 1964) and back then the 225kW output from its 3-litre V12 motor was big stuff.