The damaged Ferrari F430 car brought $ 5.8 million in losses to the company that sold the untested car.
Imagine buying a Ferrari for $ 90,000 and then getting another $ 5.8 million. This is possible, perhaps, only in America. Sounds like a perfect scenario or a crazy scenario, but for one person, it really was.
Automotive News reported that such a story happened to Hamid Adeli, who bought a Ferrari F430 in northwestern Arkansas back in 2016. The car was bought, oddly enough, from a Mercedes-Benz dealer, but then the new owner made a mistake and did not check the car before buying, which would be logical in case of buying a used car. Instead, the dealership sent the car to specialists at the Ferrari dealership.
An inspection at the Ferrari center in the Texas city of Pleino revealed several problems with the car, and some of them were fixed. Others have not been eliminated, but have been reported to the vehicle dealer.
However, later the problems "got out" when the new owner got the car and put it in his garage in Virginia, because the seller said that the car was repaired "turnkey" and in "excellent condition." But that was not the case.
Soon the car began to smell like gasoline - the smell was so strong that it passed from the garage to the home. The reason was determined later and related to the leakage of the wedge collector, but besides this, several other problems with the car were found.
The Mercedes dealership that sold the car immediately pulled back from the case, insisting that anything that might have caused concern when selling a 10-year-old car had been fixed and the car was "as is," but the owner sued them. for violation of warranties, fraud and violation of consumer protection laws.
At the trial, the jury awarded the owner $ 6,835 in damages, $ 13,366 for additional expenses and $ 5.8 million in moral damages. The crazy payout is now being contested by the dealership, which now appears to be admitting guilt but is willing to pay only $ 27,340 in moral damages.
However, it is probably not worth repeating such a scheme. Buying a used car is always like a lottery. To reduce the likelihood of negative consequences, you should always check the car before signing a contract and giving away your hard-earned money.
