McLaren Senna Crashes Into Lexus Dealership After YouTuber Tries to Show Off
As is usually the case, showing off for a crowd went horribly wrong for this $1.3 million dollar supercar and the Lexus dealership it smashed up.
As many of us are well aware, YouTube can be a great source of all kinds of information, and that’s especially true of the automotive realm. This ranges from reviews to track and dyno tests to how-to repair videos and pretty much everything in between, after all. However, like social media in general, YouTube has also become quite notorious for making certain folks famous for their bad behavior or silly stunts, too. Recently, we saw that in action after Edmond Barseghian – otherwise known as Mondi on YouTube – crashed his McLaren Senna into a Lexus dealership in Southern California.
Just a couple of years after gaining fame for wrecking his GMC Hummer EV, Barseghian is back with yet another shocking crash, but this time, it involves a rather rare (one of 500) hypercar that originally cost a cool $1.3 million to procure. It was just around two weeks ago that Mondi posted a video showing off his latest purchase – April 24 – but on April 29, just five days later, a video surfaced on Reddit showing what appeared to be that very same car smashing into a Lexus dealership.
In the video, we can see the Senna heading down Ventura Boulevard in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles, California, at which point the driver stops before doing a burnout in an attempt to show off for a crowd that has gathered nearby. The hypercar then takes off down the road, but the driver quickly loses control, swerves into a curb, and proceeds to crash directly into the front of the building, coming to a stop right next to a Toyota Camry that’s parked there.
A Senna-shaped hole in the side of Woodland Hills Lexus
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The video then shows us the aftermath of this accident, as well as the extent of the damage to the million-dollar-plus machine – the whole front end is smashed up, and the passenger side door is clearly out of alignment, with the right wheel pushed up and back as well. It didn’t take long before commenters suggested that Barseghian was the one behind the wheel at the time of the crash, and he even chimed in to ask that the video be taken down because “I don’t want insurance to see it.”
That never happened – at least as of this writing – and Barseghian has since confirmed that he was, in fact, behind the wheel in a post to his personal Instagram account. “The one thing I’m most upset about is that it happened on a public road,” he wrote in that post. “Especially considering I had picked it up the night before from Racewerkz with upgraded brakes, suspension, wheels, and slicks. … I’m glad it went wrong at 40 mph as opposed to 150+ at the track.”
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