After countless stunts, WhistlinDiesel has finally got his wish. The YouTuber's Ferrari F8 met its demise as it burned to the ground in a field.
A video published by the 25-year-old YouTuber on Friday shows the car being thrashed at high speed through a cornfield in Waco, Texas. As it plows away, the 710-horsepower F8 is seen sucking up a ton of dry crop in its face and rear wheel areas. Then, the fire happened.
The blaze appears to start in the area of its rear right wheel and climb up through the mid-engined supercar's engine bay. WhistlinDiesel—also known as Cody Detwiler—and his crew desperately try to put out the blaze with any liquids handy, including a Red Bull, but have no luck. The fire quickly spreads to their film van, making the scene even more chaotic.
"I don't care about the cars. It's fine," Detwiler says on video. "Just keep it from spreading onto the field."
"We fucked up."
This F8 had a tough life under WhistlinDiesel's care. His first video with the car, published in February, had the title "I bought a $400,000 Ferrari just to destroy it." In that piece, WhistlinDiesel slid the car around on grass, dirt, and gravel, bouncing off the limiter repeatedly, and even slapped a fence with the car. In a later video, he took a sawzall to the car's mirrors, drove it into a shopping cart, and ferried a capybara around in the passenger seat. That's just a short list of what this supercar saw.
"There goes half a million dollars," Detwiler says. "I guess don't drive in a cornfield."
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