Ferrari’s Purosangue Already Splits Opinion, Now It’s Split In Half

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The impact from the crash in China separated the Ferrari’s V12 drivetrain and front subframe from the rest of the SUV

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by Chris Chilton

10 hours ago

Images from China have appeared on social media showing the aftermath of a crash with a Ferrari Purosangue.
The force of the impact ripped off the V12 and front subframe, scattering them down the street.
This is isn’t the first Purosangue crash we’ve seen, but it looks like the most brutal.

Being an all-wheel drive SUV, the Purosangue is Ferrari’s most sensible car, but that doesn’t guarantee that it’s going to be driven in a sensible fashion, as these images of a wrecked Maranello SUV in China appear to prove.

Details surrounding the crash are thin but judging from the way the Purosangue has been chopped in half at the firewall, the liftback supercar was travelling seriously quickly at the moment of impact.

Pictures from the scene show that the SUV’s entire front end has been torn clean off, separating the front subframe and suspension components from the back half of the car. And the entire 6.5-liter V12, with its torque tube assembly and exhaust system still attached, has been separated and is lying several yards away.

The drivetrain almost looks like its been laid out ready to have the body dropped on top, as happens when the Purosangue is built at the Ferrari factory. And the umbrella shielding the disconnected V12 from the rain is a nice comedic touch. Talk about putting a Bandaid on broken leg.

Although the Purosangue has all-wheel drive, giving it a traction advantage over something like the Ferrari 296, it’s a rear-biased system, and the road is clearly wet in the pictures.

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Ferrari’s multi-mode ESP system has a dedicated rain mode that’s great at preventing the 6.5-liter naturally-aspirated V12’s 715 hp (725 PS) from overwhelming the chassis, but it has to be activated to work. We can only speculate as to whether the owner had switched off the electronic safety nets.

This isn’t the first wrecked Purosangue we’ve come across. Earlier this month we reported on a black and yellow example that had been totalled in the recent Dubai floods, and in May pictures of a white Purosangue appeared on Instagram showing the SUV rolled onto its side, apparently having come off the road while on a test drive from the Ferrari factory in Maranello.