Toronto police are looking for a Lamborghini driver who crashed his $260,000 vehicle and fled the scene in a BMW early Monday.
AFP / Lamborghini/ Getty ImagesA 2008 shot of a Lamborghini-made cop car — a Gallardo, the same model that crashed in Toronto overnight.
The game of musical luxury cars took place shortly after 2:30 a.m. Monday, when the driver of the Italian sports car was picked up by someone in a BMW after a two-car collision on the Gardiner Expressway.
Photos taken by CBC show a light-blue Lamborghini with its front-end completely torn off. There were no injuries reported in the two-car crash, despite the massive property damager.
Mike Gallo, service manager at Lamborghini Uptown Toronto, said the car is a Gallardo LP560-4, likely a 2013 or 2014 since the model was discontinued this year. The base retail price is $260,000 for the coup. The light-blue colour is one of the luxury car maker’s options, not a custom job.
It’s not a car the mechanic recognizes from around Toronto. He jokes that he’d love to try and repair it — though the extent of the damage suggests that might not be possible.
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“If there’s frame damage, there’s no use in fixing that car,” he said.
Despite the sticker shock, a Toronto police spokeswoman said the case is being treated as any other “failure to remain” at the scene of an accident would. Police say it’s an unfortunately common crime in Toronto — it just doesn’t usually draw such attention.