Three years ago, the owner of this Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670–4 SuperVeloce was pulled over by police in Taiwan for speeding. After asking a few basic questions, the cops had some suspicions about the driver and his supercar. They quickly ran the license plate and discovered that the car had an illegal registration. In fact, according to the registration, the car was not a $340,000 Lambo, but a $22,000 Ford sedan.
The car was impounded and over the next three years, the owner, who is supposedly a commercial pilot, launched a series of appeals in a desperate attempt to get his car back. In the end, the owner lost.
But it wasn't enough to just auction off the car. In order to prevent the car's parts from being sold illegally on the black market, police decided their only option was to destroy the gorgeous supercar. And as a warning to other potential registration violators, the cops filmed the car's entire destruction:
