Think Ferrari and you immediately think ‘red’. You think ‘speed’. You think ‘luxury’.
You certainly don’t think ‘no escape’.
But back in 2014, the luxury Italian car maker had to recall more than 3000 of its 458 Italia and Spider models because the trunk – located at the front of the car – did not have any mechanism to open from the inside.
Usually, a car boot can be fully opened from the inside but on this occasion, while the trunk could be opened an inch or two to prevent the suffocation of anyone trapped inside, it couldn’t open fully.
The vehicles were recalled and the latch modified so if you were indeed trapped you could escape pretty efficiently.
Well, that recall certainly puts paid to all of those trapped-in-a-car-boot movie scenes!