Forget the insurance company's "new for old'' replacement policy because it's impossible to replace a dead Aston Martin One-77 with a new one.
Yes, one of the One has hit the dust, burying itself in a Hong Kong curb and leaving only 76 of the original 77 One-77s remaining. All 77 are sold - including a sole example in Queensland - and Aston is unlikely to remake one of the $2.5 million carbon-fibre sports cars.
The Hong Kong wreck apparently was travelling at high speed in the city and hit a curb. It was reported as a single-vehicle accident. This sole image, found on Weibo, shows the substantial damage to the car.
Online site Motor Authority reports that the vehicle's owner is from Shenzhen, in China's mainland, who only recently took delivery of the car.
The car is to be shipped back to its birthplace at Aston Martin's factory in England for examination and a decision about if it can be repaired.
The One-77 has an extremely strong carbon-fibre monocoque body which is very expensive to make. If the cost to repair is too high, the car may be written off but chances of buying another are ziltch. Probably just as well.
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Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia
Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting.
It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail.
He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out.
In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups.
He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally.
He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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