PHOTO: How Man Crashed $260k Ferrari One Hour After Purchase

South Yorkshire Police posted Twitter photos of the smoking, wrecked car, saying it “went airborne (and) burst into flames” beside a highway in northern England.

The Ferrari 430 Scuderia, worth about $260,000 new, ended up a burning heap in a field.

CBS news quoted Local police as calling the man’s survival a “miracle escape,”,

The car was not so lucky.

The police said in a Facebook statement that the driver “only had minor cuts and bruises” after Thursday’s smash, but they also detected “a sense of damaged pride.”

The force said the driver, told officers: “I’ve only just got it, picked it up an hour ago.”

Police urged local drivers to take care on the roads.