Not wishing to put a damper on any festive spirits or shopping plans, but there are so many tech toys Santa can’t provide this Christmas, we thought we’d draw up a Grinch’s Wishlist over the next couple of weeks. Our Top Ten list, in descending order, begins with….
10. An Enzo Ferrari – all 400 of these million-dollar cars have been sold and the new version is not due until 2007.
There is one less on the second-hand market since Stefan Eriksson, a former executive of the Gizmondo handheld game console company, famously crashed his red one at 162mph on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu in February.
The Swede was sentenced to three years in jail earlier this month for drunk driving, embezzlement relating to a second, black, Enzo Ferrari and illegal possession of a firearm.
His UK bank is repossessing the black Enzo, so a chance of a bargain there, but don’t even think about picking up a Gizmondo this Christmas – the concept was a non-starter and the company went spectacularly bankrupt in January.

November 24th, 2006 in Games | Permalink