Victim of Terrible Parking Job Gets New Hyundai

If you haven’t seen the YouTube video of a BMW X5 playing monster truck rally with a parked Hyundai Elantra, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

As crushing as that incident was for Elantra owner Todd Jamison (pun definitely intended), he ended up getting a new car out of the deal. Hyundai Canada officials saw the footage and thought it would be good PR to hand Jamison the keys to a brand-new 2010 Elantra. The company and its digital media agency, Mighty, delivered it to him at work — on the day he was supposed to shop for a new car.

This goes to show that getting creamed by an idiot in an X5 in your local gym’s parking lot has its upside.

Hyundai Canada Gives “Worst Parking Job Ever” Victim New Car (AutoNorth via Jalopnik)

Comments

Is this another case of a senior citizen that should no longer be driving since she can't differentiate between the gas and brake pedals? Real dirt bag for leaving, too. Two cars were damaged, how about the OTHER car owner, does he get a new car out this?

The witch who attempted that hit-and-run should get some jail time and a license suspension. Unfortunately, she will probably get off with no jail time and a couple of points on her license, though.

Very generous of Hyundai Canada to replace this guys car.

M3 and segfault are correct, it's obviously a female driver. Nice ad for the durability of the BMW.

Awwwww.....that poor Elantra GT. Those were really good cars. Hope he enjoys the Elantra Touring though- it was my favourite car at the Orange County Auto Show

Anyone have an info on the X5 driver yet? They had to have been high, drunk, or completely out of their mind to just act like they didn't do anything.