Losing control and crashing a tricked out, fifth-gen Ford Mustang all by yourself just after exiting a parking lot during a car meet, is one way to give American Muscle cars a bad name and lead to new jokes about live rear axle suspensions…

As reported by Jalopnik, it all went down on Sunday (March 31), during the Big Breakfast car meeting in Malton, England, when the driver of the cherry-red Mustang coupe came out of the parking and wanted to show off his car’s V8-power to the enthusiastic crowd.

Thing is, it…didn’t go the way he wanted as just before he reached a police van and while accelerating, for reasons we’re not entirely sure, he lost control of the rear end and rearranged the front end of his Mustang on a few trees on the side of the road.

What do think happened and led to the accident, which from what we know, was limited to material damages only?

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