---
title: "Smashed Ferrari 488 Spider Randomly Found in Field"
description: "Who just abandons a supercar like this?"
date: "2017-05-02"
modified: "2017-05-03"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/9905/smashed-ferrari-488-gtb-randomly-found-in-field"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "488 gtb"
  - "abandoned cars"
  - "england"
  - "Ferrari"
  - "Supercar"
---

# Smashed Ferrari 488 Spider Randomly Found in Field

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A blue Ferrari 488 Spider was found smashed up in the middle of a grassy field in Outlane, England, and apparently no one knows how it got there, [*Daily Mail* reports](<https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4467306/Ferrari-488-GTB-crashes-ends-FIELD.html>).

[In pictures shared by *The Sun*](<https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3464658/mystery-as-ferarri-488-gtb-supercar-worth-300000-found-dumped-in-field/>), it looks as if the [488 ](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/4422/how-to-blow-109-000-on-ferrari-488-gtb-options>)Spider was driven off a road, through a fence and some shrubbery, and then came to a stop in the field. It's unclear just how severe the damage was that the Ferrari sustained, but the car needs at least a right-side mirror, front right fender, front bumper, a probably a bunch of other pieces. It's unclear when the 488 actually ended up in the lot.

In case it's not obvious, multi-hundred thousand dollar supercar—like this [Ferrari](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/9535/2017-ferrari-gtc4lusso-doubles-the-pleasure>)—generally aren't engineered for off-road excursions.

Unfortunately, it appears this 488 may have paid the ultimate price.

The last time we at The Drive came across an abandoned Ferrari, it was a [456 model](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/8662/a-ferrari-456-has-been-abandoned-on-a-fancy-london-street-for-2-years>) that had reportedly been parked on a London street for two years and counting. Though that car didn't have any kind of damage like this 488, it was sitting for a much longer time. Though the damage differs, both cars share sad tales of loneliness.

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## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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