A Ferrari 599 GTO owner was likely nonplussed when he learned that a valet parking attendant smashed his $500,000 supercar into a storefront in Rome. The valet claims he got confused and stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake, unleashing all 670 of 6.0-liter V12's horsepower. He also told police he was befuddled by the car's paddle-shift-operated transmission, but you don't need to be Sebastian Vettel to know how this stuff works. Even Volkswagen Golfs have paddles behind the wheel these days.
The owner was waiting at the Hotel Exedra with his wife and had driven from the Netherlands to attend a Ferrari Owner's Club meeting in the town Anzio, just south of Rome. Only 599 examples of the 599 GT0 were ever built. Now there appears to be one fewer, because this looks like a write-off.
Continue reading to learn more about the Ferrari 599 GTO.
Valet Parking Crashes Ferrari 599 GTO originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 3 April 2015 18:00 EST.
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