Mechanic totals a Customer's 17k mile 1997 Toyota Supra 

I guess they owe him a 10 second car…

Shop is 100% liable being that they were in possession of the vehicle.

Imagine the pure rage this guy must have felt when he found out

It's not only the 200k$ that that shop owes him. It's also the whole connection that this owner had to his car. It was a modified beauty and I would've been so angry at the driver of the shop.

It is bad enough that you have to hear that someone at the shop totalled your car, but imagine finding out by getting recommended the video.

That is actually insane, I don’t even give anyone’s car the beans unless it’s mine. I don’t see how you could even wanna drive that rare car like that

The worst part is the shop didn't even apologize instead saying this stuff happens when tes driving high horsepower cars

Watch the exhaust. It tells the whole story. The exhaust shows he stood on it, and lost it.

This is why I usually stay for the whole car repaired. One time a Nissan mechanic was trying to take my Nismo for a joy ride. He was reving the shit out of my car, and you can hear it too because I have a full AAM non resonated cat back exhaust. You should’ve seen how fast he tried to play it off when the employee ran to him, and told him I was still around.

The fact that the shop "stands by the employee" really tells you everything you need to know about them.

They tried saying on their Instagram that the driver was in no way trying to accelerate...that giant bloom of exhaust says otherwise...lmao

Let us have a moment of silence for that limited edition 15th anniversary Toyota Supra. RIP 1997-2023

Supra owner here. The rear end stuff you're hearing about is related to the torsen diff. Under high power, it can behave strange. Also, if the torsen gears break off inside the diff, it can cause one wheel to completely lock up and send the car left or right without control.

17k miles? Damn. I feel bad for the owner

As you said, this can be the end of the road for the shop too. The only way I see them recovering is to fully compensate the loss to the owner and the owner shows signs of satisfaction. Or unless some new information comes out. If they manage to win the lawsuit I don't see them socially recovering from this.

17k mile, one owner, limited edition, all original, toyota supra turbo LHD that alone is worth over 200k ontop of that the amount spent in mods, that shop owes a fortune

Homeboy floored it. Soon as he changed lanes u see the supra squat and go

I just looked on their IG and they posted a long writeup about it. The post and some of comments are trying to downplay the fact that the driver got on the throttle and instantly lost control. He may have been casually/responsibly driving 98% of the test drive, but at the moments before the crash, he goosed it. The video doesnt lie

the fact that the guy recording was a supra fan who reacted instantly to the crash added so much to the video.

Love the fact that the shop isn't taking responsibility. They said the mechanic was driving the legal speed limit when you can see clearly the guy floors it as he's merging lanes and loses control.

Someone I know had some more info on the situation. The Supra was supposedly on its way to an alignment! What I am upset about is the fact that Bespoke stated they were going the speed limit while the individual in the Volvo C30 (the car the Supra was passing) was already speeding (65-70mph) in a 55. They also limited their comments on their insta post while only leaving up 2 comments that are “good” reviews. Which I know are just planted comments to make themselves look better. Real shady stuff from them and although it’s an unfortunate situation, the fact they tried to hide it, just gives me red flags in a shop.

"over the course of the test drive, WHILE DRIVING WIHTHIN THE LEGAL LIMITS OF THE ROAD he was on , the accident occurred." Anyone that knows anything about performance cars you can literally see the moment when he steps on the gas, builds boost which causes him to loses control and crash. Boost+cold road+cold tires= this

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So he was passing and got into boost, breaking loose.

The fact that their instagram post has comments locked and the only 2 comments on the post are clearly planted posts by people they know says a lot. This shop is fucked, the owners lawyer is going to have a filed day with that TikTok video clearly showing the car speeding during the crash. The shop has no chance in court, and I hope others think twice before taking their cars there.

MKIV Owner here! I've seen some comments around the LSD blowing and causing it to veer to the right. Although this is a possibility, I do think that it's more likely that he fish-tailed under power and couldn't correct it. I've seen a ton of differentials explode at the track and they don't really go anywhere after that.

they definitely turned comments off to avoid backlash. they would have thousands of people trashing them which they didnt want on their own page

The shop is totally liable. The biggest issue is going to be how much is the Supra worth. The owner is then going to have to find that balance between trying to get what he believes the car is worth, and how much it will cost in lawyer fees to get the outcome he wants. The commenter was right, I too fear what mechanics do when the car is in the shop. I used to be a GM technician and respected the customers' cars. But let me tell you, I knew a lot of technicians that didn't.

Here in Cali, there’s a bone stock 97 Supra 15th anniversary for sale in the same color for sale. Has 88k miles and is going for $155,000. Just an idea of how expensive these cars have gotten and how much it’s worth.

I'd be afraid to drive the thing out the shop and this guy went full gas on a random surface

Dude, I had a 32k mile 2002 Honda S2000 come in for a service a few months ago, car is in mint condition. I wouldn't even go wide open on THAT car, let alone a 1000+ hp Supra.

Well-researched, unbiased, good content.

No need to panic, he's a mechanic! He can fix it! He can, can't he...?

Heart goes out to the owner.

Supra owner here. The factory rear end is technically an LSD but its a Torsen LSD. From memory, it acts like an LSD under cornering only sending more torque to the wheel with the most traction. This can be deadly in a high power vehicle the moment both rear wheels lose traction it acts like an open diff where you get the classic fish-tail of doom considering the diff will constantly send all the torque back and forth between both rear wheels. You'll get a much better definition if you google Torsen Differential but this is just a super dumb down version thats kind of correct kind of not without going into way too much detail. I've switched to the OS Giken superlock clutch type center in my car due to the fear of this happening to me.

This story actually reminds of a similar situation 1 of my friends was He always(since he was a kid,he's 27 now) liked the Toyota MR2 (mk3) and he finally found one in good and working condition from a garage but he purchased the car and decided to leave it in the previous owner shop because he didn't want to deal with his wife complaints and would bring home later after he talked his wife in,so after telling me he got the car and left it there i immediately told him to take the car and bring it home (i had 0 experience with that shop and don't know the guy so it's not like i had any sort of past with it,it was just me not trusting others with my stuff) because it's better to just having to hear his wife nagging for month rather than having his car crushed because the previous owner decided to take it for a spin and he thought i was being a little bit dramatic,2-4 weeks later the previous owner decided to take the car for a spin and he totaled it,after that his wife learned about it so he got the best of both worlds

My heart cries for that man 😔 devastating.

If it’s the shops mechanic who took the vehicle out and crashed it, the shop/ shops insurance is liable- talked to my wife who worked insurance for a number of years I can’t imagine being the owner from this travesty 😔

Bruh. If I was beyond pissed when some stole my wheels off my Honda accord, then I can’t imagine how this guy feels. I’d be straight up just heartbroken.

Bro it hurt my heart to see this, not only was it a supra but a incredibly low mileage special anniversary one too. My stomach dropped as soon as I heard it olny had 17,000 mile on it, cant even begin to imagine the pain that man felt when hearing the terrible news

Unbelievable, that's just horrible. It took me 40 yrs to finally buy my brand new dream car, one of many cars I've always wanted, only to have some dirt bag scratch all my wheels with its 1st set of tires and the dealership smacked the front bumper during warranty repairs. I could only imagine what this fella was feeling. Heartbreaking !

Watch the insurance gives him like 10k lol

the intro def described me, except i was into anime so these cars were stuff i knew about, and especially gran turismo 1 and 2 which taught me alot about their history. So to then have a movie that was pretty epic have those same legendary cars was a special treat for me as a racing and japanese car addicted gamer.

Had a mk4 all original w low miles come in for repairs. When I test drove it I knew not to beat on it considering how rare an all original supra is. Got it all fixed and test drove it again. Still resisted the urge to beat on it. The number of head turns the car gave me while on the road, though....

It’s videos like this that make me happy that I know how to work on my own car.

Dude, thank you for doing this research! Everyone wants to know this! 🤙🏾

“Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman. He’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it” ~ Jeff Spicoli

That was an absolutely beautiful piece of art. RIP

I saw one of these back in 1995 at a Chinese restaurant, at the time the car was the weirdest looking car I'd ever seen, the interior of it looked like a jet to me. It was definitely a cool looking car, even if it was an automatic.

Having worked in a shop that did a lot of high horse power cars, both modern (1100whp Ford Gt, did 252mph at the Mojave Mile) and classic (850whp 68 Camaro) and everything in between, shop is 100% liable. We carried 5 million in insurance in case something happened to a car. from the video there, it looks like he moved to pass and goosed it. When the boost came on, it broke traction and he couldn't recover. You can see the exhaust puff before the tire let loose and the spin begins. As it is very unlikely you could find another Anniversary car, it would likely just be a cash payout from the shops insurance, assuming they have enough coverage.

There was a weed dealer that got busted that had 37 cars including 12 Supras, they auctioned them all off earlier this year and an unmodified 98 manual with 22k miles went for $265k, 93 with 8k miles went for $237.5k, a 97 15th anniversary with 40k miles and a 1000whp+ single build went for $195k, 97 15th anniversary manual with 12k miles went for $190k. This car was easily worth $200k+

He smashed the throttle while passing a slow moving car that was probably doing the speed limit hence the black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. Obviously too much power for him to handle.

Looks to me like with the cold tires/road it lost traction and the driver over corrected; so when he caught traction again his tires were pointing towards the train and was sent that direction.

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This is precisely why whenever I take my JDM classic to a shop i stay with the car the entire time it's been worked on and take the keys when on standby. I've seen this happen too many times

I almost purchased my daughter one for college, thinking later I will get it back and mod it big time. But a turbo car for a 18 year was two much power. I got her a toyota corolla .😂

Me: dang that's a brutal crash, hopefully the driver is fine. 5 minutes later: "The driver is ok"

6:45 yah, it's called too much horsepower for the drivers skill

I grew up in New Zealand so we got them from new. As he passes the car you can see from the smoke coming out of the exhaust that he was on boost and planted his foot. The rear broke traction and he lost it. When ever we modified cars there is always an aftermarket ECU involved. Most aftermarket ECUs have a built in maintenance/limit mode/service mode which limits the amount of revs the engine can do to prevent these sorts of things happening. How ever, we don’t know what the car was in for or the work being carried out. After this happened a few times many years ago businesses put staff through high powered car training to help prevent this. It’s sad to it happen, but it happened, hopefully everyone learns from this so it doesn’t happen again.

The car was worth $300,000 in total for what I heard but that’s a lot of money

With all this work and power I doubt the owner still had a Torsten diff? Even if that caused the problem it doesn’t excuse the mechanic flooring it

RWD lift-off oversteer,job done!

He said the owners future life That shit had no roll cage no protection 😂

Their Instagram statement doesn’t settle right with me. They’re doing the “heavily modified” card to cover their asses. The guy GASSED it and lost control

The guy let off the throttle while having wheels spinning on cold tires, they suddenly grip up after getting all that heat in them, all the weight transfers to the front due to inertia and it oversteers, not necessarily a "Supra" thing

bro was pushin it, you can see he spun the tires too

I saw one totaled where I live too. By some ultra rich teenager . Was likely a 17 birthday gift. They’re bought by rich people . Nobody who owns one is gonna be financially hurt by losing it . Trust me .

He wouldn't be walking if it was my car

as a supra owner (2 mk4 & 1 mk3) the car wasnt the problem, it was the driver trying to correct the way the car was going which made him spin out. also theres nothing wrong with the supras rear end. if u want more info u can try going on the supra forums on FB because thats where we all discuss stuff

Saw the video already and knew it was a beautiful car...but god dam it that was one rare car once you hear all the details

I can’t even watch this. Guy at my work totaled a customers M5 but this is on a whole other level.

Hope that mechanic has a back up trade

This reminds me of when GMG took T-pains pickle rick on that TV show and crashed it. No shop is safe from the recommended list anymore and its a great thing

What’s mad is that even with the cars current condition it’s still worth more than 20k

This actually happened where I live and I saw the crash before it was cleaned up. Super crazy to see

It kinda sounds like the shop is trying to sidestep full responsibility for the car in their post. I’m curious what the cars repairs were and why it required the mechanic to go full throttle. He should never have gone full throttle in a car that he’s not familiar with

Damn bro I’m heartbroken and I don’t even own it, all I do is dream bout ownin one and hear this broke my heart

Hey man not everyone has the tools, space or knowledge to do everything on their car. But the basics should be done your self I do agree. My moto is I'll work on it until I can't then get my mechanic to come pick her up if I fail 🤣. I do suggest you tell people to develop a strong relationship with a single mechanic or a team that has you as a top priority and insurers the work and parts done.

If I had any guess to what happened, he was giving it some juice, the turbo spooled up, cold tires and cold road let go and the end is history

I'm a technician at a euro-specific shop and decently often I have to work on some higher-end cars (and because of the work done, it requires a test drive). I always drive adhering to the speed limit, and never beat on a customer's car. however, part of the test drive is driving at highway speeds and I cannot lie and say I don't give it more gas getting on the on-ramp. I've been racing time attack for about five years, and I'm very familiar with "scary-fast" vehicles and what they tend to act like. If I even slightly suspect the car I'm test driving is one of these cars, I baby the hell out of it. I never want to be in this guy's position and that's why I exercise the utmost caution with high-dollar, high-horsepower cars.

I've test driven hundreds of cars for customers, from a cheap Honda civic to a range Rover they all get the same treatment. No boots, wear shoes, cover the seat in plastic and wear clean gloves. Take care of your customers stuff that's how you get repeat customers, I cannot BELIEVE this happened and I cannot stand seeing this stuff, it gives all mechanics a bad wrap. What I don't understand is that it's so easy to not do shady shit like this. Unbelievable

As a Mk4 Supra owner this is straight out of my nightmares. Such a beautiful legendary car gone.

bro i feel so bad for the owner. i couldn’t imagine what i would do if i had a supra with 17k miles get crashed by someone else.

if this happened to me and it was my truck i would go full postal, like i cannot express in words the sheer blinding rage

if you slow down and pause a bunch you can tell the car recording was going up close to 80 on the speedometer( thats what i can make out of it since it is blurry) you can check it yourself just play half speed and pause it a bunch at 1:06-1:08 the camera shows the rpm and speed.

Dude gagged it and way over corrected when the ass end started to wiggle... total heart breaker

Reminds me of Titan Motorsports in Orlando a few years back.

He stepped on it while switching lanes and it got on boost kicked the rear ended out and he tried to correct it Anyone with experience would know what would happen if driving any high horsepower car in cold climate at a low speed 40-60mph

I just hope the owners doesn’t get screwed over. I wish to know if the vehicle had a dash cam and or GPS tracking. This will help to find out some more information; Speed driven and so on. I’m sure there will be more to follow once all the legal and insurance stuff is figured out.

That shops insurance is about to hate his ass

I had this car in the shop next to me. Crazy when I went through my old camera roll.

Ill definitely be installing a locked pedal limiter on any car I plan to take to a dealership or shop.

The 2 owners of the shop that does all my work to my MKIV both have modified MKIV's so I trust them not to crash my Supra since they are the only people other than me that I allow to drive it.

For a 90’s car, it took that crash damned well!

If the shop was even vaguely professional, they would not test a high horsepower car on the freaking public freeway.

Here in SA, workshops etc are very quick to place a notice on their premises saying that the car is left there at the owner's risk. There's been many incidents where vehicles are "test driven" and "abused" by car dealerships/ workshops etc who don't accept any responsibility/ liability for any damages etc leaving the poor owners in disbelief. Personally I had an incident where one morning i dropped off my car for it's very first service at the dealership where I purchased the vehicle new, they came fetched me in the evening to go collect my vehicle however when we arrived at the dealership I did not see the car parked out front, etc. The service manager says "oh no man it's parked at the back". So I walk to the rear parking while he tries to find the keys, he comes back and asks another dealership employee go find the keys and tries to distract me by telling me about the work completed on the car etc and we're both standing outback and clearly my car is nowhere to be seen, hence they cannot locate the keys. The service manager now panicking says "Sir i think it's still in the wash area" however, some low level worker there took the keys, left the dealership, went fetched his girlfriend, went shopping etc and tried to sneak the vehicle back without anyone noticing but too bad for them as I alerted my tracking company who located the car being driven about 30km away from the dealership. When they stopped the vehicle, the girlfriend was driving and she did not have a driver's license, ruined the clutch and the gearbox, etc. The service manager drove me there and boy was I seriously pissed that day! Again they tried to indicate I left the vehicle there at my own risk etc, however they could not get out of this one. The matter dragged on in court and they had to accept the liability for the damages etc overall. Once the car was repaired and as good as new again I immediately traded it in for another new vehicle. Never went back to that dealership and neither has any of my friends/family etc. That dealership took some serious heat from the vehicle manufacture and lost the contract where they supplied my company's vehicle fleet with new vehicles.

I ran the carfax on the car. Can CONFIRM he was the original owner. Last reported mileage was 10,800 back in 2009. No value given (too old)

There’s no way in hell that shop can cover that up as “shit happens” they are 100,000,000,000% at fault for this and they should go out of business in order to pay him back for that car. Absolutely outrageous!

In a left turn lane, speeds up to pass the filming car, once he's clear he smashes the gas (as seen by the exhaust and tires spinning) which wasn't necessary to do for a test drive so I highly doubt he was following traffic laws. Their post was written by their attorney, and the 2 positive comments were family members.

3 weeks in 2023 already lost a legendary driver, a legendary car...