Expensive prang!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8584878.stm

Test drive crash results in £300,000 insurance claim




Repairs to a supercar damaged when a test drive went wrong near Aberdeen are set to cost an insurance firm £300,000. The Pagani Zonda S, which would cost more than £500,000 to buy, was involved in a crash last September.
The car has been sent for repair to Modena in Italy, where the vehicles are made.
Only a handful of Pagani Zonda S cars are made each year
A spokesperson for insurers Aviva said: "This is the biggest insurance payout we have had for repairs to a private car in the UK."

Makes my last claim look quite small!

biko

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Theta

Its cool. He paid for NCB protection so his premium wont go up!

Pique

Theta wrote: »

Its cool. He paid for NCB protection so his premium wont go up!

After a claim like that, everyone elses premium will go up though !

delly

The insurance claim was lodged by the test driver, not the owner of the car.

The only bit of silver lining for the owner i'd say.

Davidth88

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8584878.stm

Didn't Clarkson write some super car off in the Hyde park car park one time


Puts any claim that I may have made in the past into the shade for sure



Wow !

Test drive crash results in £300,000 insurance claim


Only a handful of Pagani Zonda S cars are made each year
Repairs to a supercar damaged when a test drive went wrong near Aberdeen are set to cost an insurance firm £300,000.
The Pagani Zonda S, which would cost more than £500,000 to buy, was involved in a crash last September.
The car has been sent for repair to Modena in Italy, where the vehicles are made.
A spokesperson for insurers Aviva said: "This is the biggest insurance payout we have had for repairs to a private car in the UK."
'Painstakingly constructed'
The spokesperson said: "This is out of the ordinary for an insurer.
"Although the vehicle was badly damaged, Aviva decided that the car may be repairable and set about making arrangements for the car to be shipped across to Modena, Italy, home of Pagani, the vehicle manufacturer.
"There are roughly only 10 Zondas produced per year and they are painstakingly constructed."
The insurance claim was lodged by the test driver, not the owner of the car.

Davidth88

blast see someone else beat me to it.

Mods feel free to delete thread , my apologies !!

SV

talk about making the car unsellable by repairing it?
who has the money to buy a car like that and will gladly buy a crashed one?

Dirk Gently

knowing aviva the car was probably sitting in a warehouse somewhere incurring storage charges everyday since the crash last september despite probably getting calls to move it every day since. I hope the repair shop is getting paid up front because also knowing aviva some rep in India or somewhere will deny any knowledge of the car or ever authorising any repair.