These cars will offer a chance of supercar glamour to a Japanese scrapyard soon.
This 14-car pile up included eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benz and a Lamborghini Diablo who, accroding to eye witness accounts, were hooning around in the wet.
According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, police have described the supercar drivers as 'a gathering of narcissists', with speed and wet conditions the likely cause of the spectacular crash that turned several luxury cars into scrap metal.
The crash has been described by international news outlets as the world's most expensive car crash, with the damage estimated at between $1 million and $4 million.
A witness told local media he saw the convoy of luxury cars travelling at speeds of about 160km/h, more than twice the speed limit on the Chugoku Expressway, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, about 10.15am on Sunday, London's Daily Telegraph reported.
"One of them spun and they all ended up in this huge mess," said a witness
"The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching from the right lane to the left and skidded," said Mitsuyoshi Isejima, executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture's Expressway Traffic Police unit.
"It was a gathering of narcissists."
The drivers were between 37 and 60 years old, he said.
Mr Isejima said the man police believed to be responsible for the crash was a 60-year-old self-employed man from Fukuoka prefecture. He could be jailed for up to three months or fined $1250.
Ten people suffered cuts and bruises in the pile-up, which took six hours to clear from the road.