Tommy Hilfiger was heard to exclaim in disgust

"it doesn't even have automatic windows!"

Oh how I hated him at that point. A jealous hate, but hate nonetheless.

-Matt- "..."

There were some pretty good closeup pictures accompanying that story.
FC was all ablaze trying to figure out who owned it.  Kind of a joke, if
you ask me, but celebrity-crazed-mewlings is actually a licensed and
registered sport in California..

My question is, who was driving the SLR, and was the Enzo taking it at
the time of impact ... I would think the Enzo could pretty much smoke
the SLR.

Howdy. The funny thing about this - the Enzo is no longer a part of the
story, just the entryway.  The story is this Erikssen guy - another one
of those rich megalomaniacs who loses touch with reality as the cash
pile grows bigger (or smaller FROM bigger).  I love this sh.t.  It is
the truest vision of what modern day man really is.  Give any one of us
an absolute shitpile of money and then roll the dice to see if you get
to watch sanity slowly drift away.

This morning from the LA Times:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ferrari10apr10,0,4117260.story?coll=la-h
ome-headlines

Arrest Is Made in Ferrari Accident

Stefan Eriksson, held on suspicion of grand theft, hadn't made payments
on the Enzo wrecked in Malibu or on two other cars, authorities say.

By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
April 10, 2006

Sheriff's deputies have arrested the Swedish video game executive who
crashed in a rare Ferrari in Malibu in February, alleging that he
didn't own that car and others in his $3.5-million exotic car
collection, authorities said Sunday.

Stefan Eriksson faces grand theft charges after detectives raided his
gated Bel-Air estate Friday night, spent six hours searching it and
then took him into custody Saturday night.

Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said detectives
concluded that the wrecked Ferrari, a red Enzo - as well as a rare
Mercedes and a second, black Enzo - were owned by British financial
institutions.

The cars were purchased in Britain last year when Eriksson lived there.
He apparently brought them to Los Angeles when he moved here. But
financial institutions that held titles to the cars informed detectives
that payments had lapsed, Whitmore said.

The arrest underscores that what started as a curious auto accident on
Pacific Coast Highway has expanded into a multi-pronged investigation,
he said. The search was conducted by the sheriff's emergency operations
bureau, part of the county's Homeland Security division.

"This is the beginning of the investigation," Whitmore said. "All three
cars have now been confiscated."

Although no one was seriously injured in the crash, the investigation
has generated significant attention because of the strange
circumstances surrounding it and the fact that it destroyed one of only
400 Enzos ever built. Authorities believe the car was going 162 mph
when it smashed into a power pole.

Eriksson told deputies who arrived at the scene that he was not the
driver and that a man named Dietrich had been behind the wheel.

Eriksson said Dietrich fled the scene, but detectives have been openly
skeptical of this story.

Investigators took a swab of Eriksson's saliva in order to match his
DNA against blood found on the Ferrari's driver-side air bag. The
comparison results are back, but detectives won't release the findings.

A blood-alcohol test on Eriksson at the time showed him to be above the
legal limit for driving in California, so he could face several other
charges if he's found to be the driver.

Eriksson also told deputies that he was deputy commissioner of the
police department of a tiny transit agency in the San Gabriel Valley.

A few minutes after the crash, two men arrived at the scene, identified
themselves as Homeland Security officers and spoke to Eriksson at
length before leaving.

Detectives are investigating any connection Eriksson may have had to
the agency.

Eriksson, 44, was booked into the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los
Angeles. He is being held without bail because U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement has put a hold him, though it is unclear why. His
attorney could not be reached for comment.

Eriksson was an executive with Gizmondo, a European video game company
that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year with more than $200 million
in debt. According to Swedish authorities, he served prison time in the
early 1990s after being convicted of counterfeiting.

During the search at Eriksson's Bel-Air home, detectives found the
black Enzo, worth more than $1 million, Whitmore said.

His Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, worth $600,000, was seized last month
when his wife was stopped in Beverly Hills on suspicion of driving
without a license. That car had been reported stolen to London's
Scotland Yard.

The case has been the talk of exotic car groups since the accident. On
Sunday, some Ferrari aficionados expressed hope that the episode might
finally be over.

"The Ferrari community is very upstanding and a very serious group of
people," said Gil Lucero, Pacific region president of the Ferrari Club
of America. "It's unfortunate folks with more money than sense get into
these things."