Owner "under no circumstances was any employee to take the vehicle off the lot". Employees crash it on 90 mph joyride

One might hope that if you plunk down a LOT of money for a car, it wouldn't need to see the dealer with less than 1,000 miles on it. One might also hope that if you tell the dealership that "under no circumstances was any employee to take the vehicle off the lot," the employees of said dealership wouldn't take those instructions as "go on a high-speed joyride, lose control of the car, and total it." Yet here we are, reports Automotive News. The lowdown:

The car: The vehicle in question was a 2018 Chevy Camaro ZL1E Hendrick Edition with 989 miles on the odometer and appraised at around $97,000.

The problem: The Camaro wouldn't start, so owner Kenny Habul brought it into H&L Chevrolet in Darien, Connecticut, in January with the above instructions.

The much, much bigger problem: Service adviser Mathew Sebastian and another employee decided to take the Camaro out for a 90mph fun run on I-95, lost control, hit a guardrail, and totaled the relatively rare muscle car.


https://www.newser.com/story/352784/dealer-employees-take-97k-car-for-joyride-disastrously.html?

The Chevy Camaro is no more. The bowtie brand recently killed off the iconic nameplate, never to return on a gas-powered pony car (though, who knows what sort of electrified future it may have). So you can imagine the anger and frustration of racing driver Kenny Habul, when he found out that a dealership service technician allegedly crashed and totaled his Camaro ZL1 1LE, reportedly worth $97,000.

According to Automotive News, Habul towed his ZL1 “Hendrick Edition” to H&L Chevrolet in Darien, Connecticut, since it wouldn’t start. He reportedly instructed the dealership that “under no circumstances” could they drive it off the lot. Now Habul is reportedly suing the dealership because not only did service technicians drive it off the lot, but they supposedly crashed it, too.



Service advisor Matthew Sebastian, along with a co-worker, were said to have taken the the Camaro ZL1 onto I-95 and struck a guardrail at 89 mph. The car only had 989 miles on it. The lawsuit alleges that the Camaro’s factory track data recorder showed Sebastian accelerating hard right before the crash while also not wearing his seatbelt. Sebastian was also ticketed for failing to stay in his lane. Thankfully, it doesn’t seem as if any other cars were involved in the crash, and no one was hurt.

https://autos.yahoo.com/chevy-dealer-allegedly-wrecked-racer-170000102.html