An enthusiast driving a Ferrari F8 had a costly accident after goosing the gas leaving a Cypress car meet on Sunday.
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Houston Chronicle
By Dan Carson
The first rule of the car meet is don't wreck your car at the car meet—which is sometimes easier said than done.
Because, listen, sometimes you have a new car, and that car is very fast and expensive, and you're just a little too pumped to give it the beans while leaving the lot. As one enthusiast discovered at a Houston-area car meetup over the weekend, this concoction can have devastating results: Thankfully, in this case it, appears to have only dented the driver's ego and pocket book.
Footage recorded by onlookers at the the end of a Cars & Coffee meetup in Cypress on Sunday shows the driver of a Ferrari F8 Tributo peeling out onto a busy feeder road and promptly putting the 710-horsepower supercar into a concrete Jersey wall.
Video of the incident was posted to the Cars Across Texas YouTube channel. Thankfully, it appears the driver, who had allegedly only possessed the car for "about a week" prior to the crash, walked away without serious injuries, according to the Cars Across Texas admin.
Warning: Video contains NSFW language.
https://youtu.be/rUiDYCD9sv0
"Once we went to check out the cars leaving things took a scary turn," the video's caption reads. "A car collector in Houston sent it in his brand new Ferrari F8 he has only had for a week and lost traction and slammed to the wall. The driver was fine but the car seems to more than likely be a total loss. It's unfortunate but everything could've been so much worse."
Police in the vicinity responded quickly to the wreck, while onlookers were left picking up pieces of the smashed vehicle, including the Ferrari's plastic frunk compartment complete with a bespoke tool case inside.
The front trunk compartment of the wrecked Ferrari was pulled onto a nearby sidewalk by onlookers after Sunday's crash in Cypress.
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If watching this beautiful machine explode like Lego confetti hurt your soul, you may want to skip the next sentence or two: Initial MSRP for the 2022 and 2023 Ferrari F8 Tributos started at $283,000, though the Italian car maker has stopped the sale and production of the hardtop coupe version of its V8 twin-turbo supercar (only a single 2023 Tributo ever made it to the North American market before production ended, Road and Track reported in March). Worse still, low-mileage F8 Tributos have sold for more than $400,000 in recent months on Bring a Trailer, a high-end car auction site. The most recent example? A Tributo clad in Bianco Avus white that auctioned for $405,069 in Austin, Texas on April 29—the same colorway as the one involved in this weekend's accident.
In any case, let this mess serve as valuable refresher on the two core tenets of peeling out: Get the car straight and never go Full Mustang.