As Hurricane Ian approached Florida, a man bragged about his newly purchased $1 million Maclaren “hurricane supply car” stocked with goods to ride out the storm. Shortly thereafter, it was swept away 24 hours later with his other luxury cars.
Before the storm: Man boasts about his new $1 million vehicle
Before Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, a man known as Ernie on social media, who goes by the username lambo9286 on Instagram, posted a picture of his brand-new McLaren captioned “my hurricane supply car.”
The car is valued at over $1 million, the Daily Mail reported. Apparently, Ernie also owns a number of other luxury cars, including a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, and a BMW.
The photo showed his yellow and black sports car with its doors in front hood open, with bags of supplies in the trunk.
The McLaren P1 is a British-made rear mid-engine twin-turbocharged V-8, plug-in hybrid, Formula One style car based on the F1 technology. The vehicle is essentially a race car, producing a top speed of 217 mph, and has a feature called “Race Mode.”
“Definitely love driving it in Race Mode,” he wrote in a post showing the sleek vehicle parked in front of a luxury home, the New York Post reported.
Hurricane strikes
A day after Ernie posted photos on social media of his brand-spanking new McLaren P1 with only 300 miles on the odometer, Florida was slammed by Hurricane Ian. The monster storm packed 150 mph winds and pushed 18 feet of storm surge onshore, ravishing communities, flooding homes, and knocking out power to 2.6 million people.
Then, Ernie posted new photos showing what happened to his $1 million “hurricane supply car,” which devastated car lovers.
Man loses Maclaren, Rolls-Royce, and other luxury cars in Hurricane Ian
The next photos Ernie posted of his new McLaren P1 were heartbreaking. The photos first showed his McLaren alongside a white Rolls-Royce inside his garage, which was quickly filling up with water. The McLaren was half submerged, with water above the wheels and nearly up to the driver’s window.
It only got worse from there.
In the next photo, Ernie captioned it: “Car went through the garage.”
The next photos showed the McLaren outside the garage, being pushed against a tree, with water above the wheel wells, and the sports car being washed down the street of his Naples neighborhood. The photo showed other neighborhood cars suffering a similar fate.
After the storm, Ernie posted a photo of the McLaren P1 in someone else’s yard, a downed tree in the background, and his upside-down blue Lamborghini in the foreground with weeds wrapped around the wheel. Prices for that model Lamborghini, by the way, start around $200,000.
