It really cracks me up.
UPDATE: A friend of the owner got in touch to say what happened:
Was hitting some twisties north of Phoenix in the mountains and came around a tight lefthander at about 90 and lost the back end. Pitched back and forth and slammed into a guard rail sideways(@ about 75) spun and hit the guard rail again. Too fast too soon on cold tires. No injurys other then neck problems really.
Also, they’d like the plate back from the wrecking yard. So give it back, y’hear.
I saw a BMW convertible cruising down the highway on my easter holiday with the numberplate “LMAO”. He didn’t crash, though.
Looks like it ROFLd
@#2: Rolled Out of the Fucking Lane, Damn. ?
Reminds me of a line from Dawn of the Dead (1979), where the good guys are checking out a very expensive hunting rifle in the mall gun shop: “The only guy who could miss with a this weapon is the guy with the money to afford it!”
My old boss had a Lotus Elise. He smashed his up skidding off the road while trying to avoid a pheasant. I Smrk’d.
Physics had the last laugh.
Again!
It’s always sad to see a nice car like that damaged.
Ouch. Too bad about the car; the Elise is beautiful. LOLTUS is great, though.
The best I’ve ever seen was a Jaguar XJS with the vanity plate “WANKER.”
Vanity plates are a funny thing. There’s someone around here who has plates that say AILING. I imagine he or she is Chinese (we’ve got a very large Chinese expat population around here) and that his or her name is Ai Ling, but every time I see it I wonder if they’re maybe just not doing very well.
Gravity, my old enemy, you win again!
I used to be an idiot behind the wheel. This gives me the perspective to assert that the driver in this case was an idiot. I hope he learned his lesson.
“Too fast too soon on cold tires”
WTF. You don’t drive hard enough on the street to get heat into your tires or brakes. That’s what race tracks are for. You don’t do it because (HAHAH!) there’s not a lot of runoff room on the street. No tire walls. No gravel traps. No big grassy areas.
Instead you’ve got lots of hazards, plus normal people, driving normal cars, paying a normal amount of attention to the task at hand, and they aren’t expecting to encounter a jackass doing 90 mph in the mountains. They didn’t sign the waiver that you do at a race track, you know the one that says “yeah, I know I might die doing this.”
Even a tiny Elise doing 90 mph would have killed someone had it hit another car. The driver is an asshole and a retard and if his take home lesson is that his tires were too cold, it’s too bad for the rest of us that he isn’t dead.
I’m not usually a fan of personalised plates, but I do like one on a car regularly parked near my home: PRO73IN
I suggest he takes out the weekend warrior Harleys in Scottsdale, then go to Rez and hit kids playing around.
Tell the driver to take it to the track before he kill someone.
Seriously.
Not only is it safer but they will meet drivers with skills that will blow their mind.
Looks a lot like what this other guy did to his Lotus Elite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=YgXieZTHqq8
Lost it on a turn the same way.
@13 and 16: Cannot agree more. I hope insurance refuses to pay for this.
Agree with the above commentators. This was an expensive lesson for the owner but apparently not expensive enough. Pushing the limits on your car (or motorcycle) belongs at the track, where there are tirewalls and runoff in case you screw up, and paramedics to put you back together afterwards.
My all-time favourite vanity plate was seen blasting around a corner on something fast red and small; ‘hubris’. I couldn’t agree more. Made me laugh though.
lol….
The insurance paid for it