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wierd....can't find the story on any fairfax sites

It was on my SMH RSS feed, which is why I saw it...

but when I went to the link, the story was "not found".

would be nice if fairfax tried to squash the story ..

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Birds Grand Master

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Hahaha yes I would love to see this car crushed. Imagine the lawsuit it would kick up...

Can bet if it was an import it would be seeing the crusher - willing to bet they make exceptions for half million dollar exotics.

Eclipz Contributor

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Hahaha yes I would love to see this car crushed. Imagine the lawsuit it would kick up...

Can bet if it was an import it would be seeing the crusher - willing to bet they make exceptions for half million dollar exotics.

regardless of how rare the car is it should still be crushed. if it was any one else then their car would be in the crusher!

mad082 Grand Master

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well he doesn't own the car, so crushing is stupid as it only punishes the owner of the car, not the driver, so the people who are saying to crush it should grow a brain.

i'm guessing he will lose his job, not just because of the fact that he will lose his licence (high profile case so he will more than likely be made an example of) but because he has damaged the image of the business he works for, and also because the car was scheduled for reviews by other people during the week, so i'm guessing the company that owns the car will think twice about letting the financial review's motoring writers test any of their cars. they may even be able to take legal action against the driver, or the financial review if any of the other testers had paid money to test it.

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Can bet if it was an import it would be seeing the crusher - willing to bet they make exceptions for half million dollar exotics.

I wouldn't be too sure on that one. Apparently half the impound yards are astons, GT3's etc taken off the midlife crisis set. I know they were hunting a GT3 in victoria for quite some time, don't know if they got him or not.

Birds Grand Master

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Don't tell us to grow a brain when we're clearly talking in hypotheticals here...I didn't think we'd have to acknowledge that the car isn't owned by the driver in order to make that joke.

I'm actually against car crushing full stop.

Also I think there's a difference between the impound yard and a car being crushed. Sure the impound yards might be full of exotics...but I'm saying once the cars are on death row, I think you'll find a double standard whereby some teenager's $15,000 import isn't blinked at whilst half a million dollars worth of exotic might be given a second chance. Would be interesting to know if there are exceptions for these types of cars or if the law is straight cut on the matter.

sneakey pete Grand Master

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I wonder if they would crush it at all? Nothing like a pissed off company who stands to loose half a million dollars to fund a lawsuit challangeing the legality of car crushing...

Or maybe it wouldn't even get that far

Sydneykid Grand Master

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In NSW they can only crush the car if it's owned only by the driver who committed the offence, that's why all of my cars are in joint names. Plus finance companies, including banks, have mounted legal arguments that their percuniary interests can't be put aside by the actions of a driver. That's why so few cars have actually been crushed.

Legally I would be very surprised if Ateco doesn't put forward a case to get their car back straight away. They shouldn't be commercially penalised for the actions of someone else.

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Gary

BTW; the alleged offence occured "in the West Australian wheatbelt"

TALBO Grand Master

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well he doesn't own the car, so crushing is stupid as it only punishes the owner of the car, not the driver, so the people who are saying to crush it should grow a brain.

i'm guessing he will lose his job, not just because of the fact that he will lose his licence (high profile case so he will more than likely be made an example of) but because he has damaged the image of the business he works for, and also because the car was scheduled for reviews by other people during the week, so i'm guessing the company that owns the car will think twice about letting the financial review's motoring writers test any of their cars. they may even be able to take legal action against the driver, or the financial review if any of the other testers had paid money to test it.

+1. At least some speak sense

bubba Grand Master

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This was in WA so please stop trying to push your crapper eastern states hoon laws on us :)

I was surprised it was only seized for 7 days after the revised laws they brought in a couple of weeks ago (where apparently they changed it so they can be seized for 28 days for a first offence) but it seems they are only applying that to unlicensed drivers :)

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A police spokesman said: "The incident should serve to remind drivers that regardless of a car’s capabilities, excessive speed is a contributing factor in about 60 people dying on our roads each year."

Lol so I wonder how many of those 60 people killed last year were hit by flying Ferrari's??

PM-R33 Grand Master

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Give the Ferrari back to the owner, FFS it aint his fault. Poor guy. I don't understand these laws at all; some one gets done speeding in the car, so to punish them, they take the car away from the owner....

Stupid politics. If some one took my half million dollar Ferrari away i'd be on there door step with 50 lawyers demanding it back that minute.

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bnr#@ Mentor

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Gotta love how they say " excessive speed is a contributing factor "

Note: Excessive speed does not necceserily imply driving over the speed limit

and I would love to now what "contributing factor" actualy means...

Also... a whole 60 ppl? as sad as it is, in reality it is a very small number...

A lot more people die from prety much anything else every year.

A lot more people get murdered every year yet we dont see any massive campaighns to fight that...

Now who would like to guess why that is?

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