Although it may look good from the outside, the supercar will likely be a total loss.
$899. Renting a Ferrari F8 Tributo Ferrari for four hours via Royalty Exotic Cars is $899 You want it for eight hours? It will cost $1,699. The company provided services for someone who wanted to drive the 710-horsepower Italian supercar. However, the experience was not exciting and ended up being a costly one. This is especially true for insurance companies.
The thumbnail of the YouTube video is not very helpful. The car does not look bad. You’ll see the Prancing Horse, with just a few bent wheels and a broken spoiler lip. The F8 Tributo was also involved in an accident that caused significant damage to the underbody. The curtain airbag on driver’s side was also deployed at the time of impact.
While these are costly to fix, they can be fixed. But there is more. Royalty Exotic Cars performed a deeper inspection and discovered that the F8 Tributo’s suspension had failed. It can be fixed, so it’s not an issue. Its aluminum spaceframe is closely related to 458 Italia’s. You can see the large hole at 12:42.
How could this happen? According to the driver of the car, he was too late to see the rock on Las Vegas Boulevard and didn’t react in time. Although he claimed he was driving at less than 45 mph (72 kilometers/h), the Royalty Exotic Cars folks believe he was travelling at much higher speeds due to the severity of the damage.
High-end rental shops believe the driver hit a curb because both the front and rear wheels of the driver were damaged. They also found tire marks on curbs and even a piece missing from the street fender liner. All of these evidence points point to one possible explanation: the Ferrari’s 700+ horsepower going to the rear wheels was too much for the driver to handle.
The Ferrari’s cracked frame will likely result in it being declared a writing-off. Although it is still listed on Royalty Exotic Cars website, it is not available for rent. It was brand new and fully loaded, with less than 1000 miles on its odometer. This was actually the F8 Tributo’s first rental.