Try Not To Cry As A Confiscated Ferrari 458 Is Crushed
This is definitely one of those lie down on the floor, try not to cry moments. And before you ask, yes, this is a real Ferrari 458 Spider being ripped to shreds.
Naturally, you’re probably wondering why, so let us take you through it. The car belonged to 30-year-old Zahid Khan, a millionaire businessman branded a ‘rogue landlord’ after forcing tenants out of his property in 2016. After three of the six charges against him were upheld, Khan was ordered to carry out 150 hours of community service. When turning up to an appeal hearing at Birmingham Crown Court, he parked and left the ill-fated Ferrari on the pavement.
Apparently believing it was stolen, police later seized the car. When trying to find out what had happened to it, Khan was told it had been destroyed, as it was without valid insurance and was classed as an un-roadworthy ‘category B’ insurance write-off that had been repaired after a serious accident. That said, UK law states that some parts can be salvaged from cat B cars and used on roadworthy vehicles, so we’re not sure why the whole car was binned.
It’s only now that the harrowing footage has been revealed, showing the mid-engined supercar’s final moments. Khan denies that the 458 was uninsured, and claims that the authorities “went behind my back and removed a court order that was imposed on the car without notifying my self or my legal team.”
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I don’t get scared by horror movies cause I know they are fake, but this tho…this butchering made me cry on the inside a little bit.
Petition to end the crushing of all cars.
Exist to sign.
intense crying
Y tho
I am just going to cry myself to eternal horrors now…
I’m not crying, your crying!
This is such an atrocious crime ! Even if the car was in “B”category, i’m sure a fine could have been paid to regularise it, and perhaps slap a fine if the car was uninsured as well. Crushing it, just reeks of socialistic spitefulness and I expected more of Britain’s legal system. This is the equivalent of the government shooting your dog because it’s tags expired !
Just auction it, don’t kill it.
It may not be road safe anymore, BUT, sell the parts man, so much stuff you can take out of it… It can be turned into furnitures, look at the old top gear engine table.
I mean yes, it isn’t in any way logical that confiscated cars are destroyed as their owners are idiots, not the cars. But you must see, these resources to produce the car are partially being made unuseable. So it is also really bad for the environment and this should not be in the interest of the government, of course.