I have my private pilot’s license and everyone I know with one views high performance airplanes (that they haven’t check out in) with a decent amount of respect – they know they need extra training to fly one and they know they could kill themselves in a hurry if they don’t get it. I mean… I would love to fly a P-51 some day, but if you handed me the keys to one I’d hand them right back. Because I’d crash it, guaranteed. Yet people think they can just drive supercars without additional training… and then this shit happens.
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Obligs…
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Well that isn’t as fun, because it wasn’t the fault of the Ferrari driver.
I just love the irony of the people who do exactly like in the video - rev it up and lose control.
I once pulled into a gas station and there was a super car parked next to the tire station. I started looking at my phone while I waited for thew guy to get out and fill his tires. I looked up finally and realized I had lost 15 minutes to my phone and the guy was still sitting in his car. I got out of my car and walked up to the driver’s window. I could see he was reading the user manual on how to fill his tires. 
I knocked on his window and asked how much longer we was going to be. He said it would be just a minute. He sat there for another 5 minutes and then left without ever getting out of his car.
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Like I said, I don’t know moral to my tangential tale. It just is.
Now that’s a realistic flame job!
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Wow, he is incredibly lucky that his daddy will buy him a new one!
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I live in Macau, where the longest straight-stretch is about 1 km and photo-radar everywhere (top speed 60kph). I also see every type of luxury car, either idling in traffic or simply parked. There is also almost no parking here either (way too many cars compared to available parking spaces) so the reasons for owning one of these cars is purely for showing off.
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Fake News. I don’t think he even touched the tree.
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What kind of overprivileged milquetoast drives a GRAY Lamborghini? Gee I really want a flashy, head-turning, supercar but I want it to blend in with all the shitty crossovers littering the boring, monochrome expanse of the highways. What a tool.
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Just a guess, but given the evident force of the accident, there didn’t seem to be any assurance that the plates would stay on for the ride, hence… 
If you need an Italian sports car to use to show off in the city, maybe another model is better. Alas now it’s an historic vehicle. I can’t understand why Fiat/Chrylser killed the Lancia brand. They were the luxury models derived from cheaper Fiat cars.
Rear wheel drive cars have a totally different handling compared with front wheel and 4wd.
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That is also the case for some more moderately-priced sports cars like the Lotus Elise, although in those cases the part is made of fibreglass. A crack does mean that a large part of the body needs replacing, which (if you have an old high-mileage example) might mean that the insurers would try to write it off, but there are now plenty of aftermarket suppliers making replacements.
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As @hecep said, probably safety, though I have heard of the registration numbers of car wrecks being reused on fake plates. I have no idea about any details, or whether that’s even true, but I have noticed that severely damaged cars on transporters tend to have the plates removed/covered.
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Some places might have a law that a vehicle can only display one licence plate at a time (so that if a tow truck sets off a speed camera, they know to send the ticket to the owner of the truck not the owner of the car on the back).
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But this did clothe and shelter a lot of people!
The workers on the line and the accountants in the office and all the other fine people at the Lamborghini factory, the people at the insurance company, and the people at the dealership or bodyshop who fixed this! Not to mention the brick mason who rebuilds the wall and the farmer who grows the trees that the city will replace this one with! Oh, and the tow truck driver and the cops who handled the accident, they all get a cut.
Perhaps a little worse than sitting in a mutual fund or a savings account, but a lot better than buying some piece of art by a dead artist who died of starvation in the 1800s from some other rich dude who put the money in a chest in the Bahamas.
I mean, this car isn’t like millions of dollars. It’s expensive, but it’s only 2-3 times as expensive as a Tesla, or 10x as expensive as a cheap sedan.
Dude should learn how to drive, but that applies to half the people on the road. I would say this idiot is probably less frustrating in a parking lot than someone who can’t drive their SUV into a parking space without a dozen attempts.
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Here they are in happier times:
Rumour has it that he engaged ‘launch control’, which seems like an obviously bad idea on a narrow and short street.
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People don’t call you laughing to ask if you crashed your new stupid car
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