First, check out the clip from the documentary here (sorry, the Hulu embed wasn't working right), then come back to read through our sequential ordering of how the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the Carpocalypse actually occurred to see the link:

• Daniel Sadek owned Quick Loan Funding, a company providing mortgages to un-creditworthy buyers, exploding the sub-prime mortgage market to epic proportions.
• Sadek's company makes a lot of money through something called "Asset Securitization," whereby sub-primes are bundled up, repackaged and sold at credit ratings higher than the underlying mortgage credit worthiness as either "Mortgage Backed Securities" (MBS) or "Collateralized Debt Obligations" (CDOs).
• Sadek sinks profits into Redline movie, even letting Griffin crash Sadek's Enzo to promote it.
• Major banks and financial institutions that had borrowed and invested heavily in MBS and CDOs to re-purpose Sadek's mortgages face liquidity and solvency issues due to defaults of underlying mortgages within the securities.
• Banks stop loaning people money for buying cars because they're afraid they'll face a liquidity crisis.
• No loans means a "credit crunch" and thus, the Carpocalypse.

What do you mean our internal link scenario is highly dubious? It's so obvious. Just use the Commutative Property of mathematics and we swear it works — it's all Eddie Griffin's fault.

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• Redline [MySpace]
• Previously: 'Redline' Producer Spends $34 Million So That His Girlfriend Can Finally Play A Character With A Name Again [Defamer]

But the movie didn't start as a way to get Sadek's cars some screen time.

Instead, it began with [deep-pocketed producer Daniel] Sadek's former fiancée, actress Nadia Bjorlin.

After playing Chloe Lane on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," Bjorlin, 26, started auditioning for movie roles. "I saw what she had to go through — driving every day from Newport to Los Angeles, and I never saw her get anything," Sadek says. "I watched her struggle. And I wanted people to see her talent."

So Sadek conceived "Redline" as a movie for Bjorlin..

It's a story as old as Hollywood itself, but one that never fails to choke us up, in which the guy with way too much money dries the tears of his inconsolable, struggling-actress girlfriend after yet another failed audition (the indignity of coming home without the part of "Busty Woman in Car" is just too much to bear for someone so dedicated to her craft), then whispers, "Don't worry, baby. Daddy's gonna buy you a movie bigger and dumber than the one that didn't want you."

• Hollywood's latest promotional stunt? A Ferrari crash draws eyeballs [LAT]
• Previously: Terrifying Crash Causes Actor To Retreat Into Mildly Successful Fictional Persona [Defamer]

Let me first dispel a few myths. Most important, the car actor Eddie Griffin crashed into a wall, and that is now garishly on display in front of the Grauman Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, is indeed 100% Ferrari Enzo Ferrari. There is no doubt. I touched it. I smelled it. I took about 75 pictures of the poor thing's riven carbon fiber body and chassis. (See below for the fatal scars and wounds that will never heal.) You budding conspiracy theorists out there (Hi Tom Anderson!) had best call Art Bell. Number two, people who visit Hollywood Boulevard on vacation with their kids are not sane in any way. And finally, Hollywood has no shame. Less than none. Make the jump to find out how much less.

Was the doomed Enzo wrecked by accident or on purpose as both tax write-off and generator of free press for producer Daniel Sadek's car-chase movie "Redline"? What's the difference? The putzes behind "Redline" laid the Enzo in state. Seriously, they put on a frigging wake, complete with wreaths, roses, framed photographs and a totally tasteless, $3 cartoon of an Enzo ascending to Heaven and then flying around in the clouds. Behind that screen (of course) were other screens looping the long format movie trailers.

At first I was amused by the display, then I was overcome with the feeling I'd been participating in the automotive equivalent of a bunch of asshole hunters gathered around a freshly slaughtered trophy kill. Perhaps a polar bear or lion. I love a good car-chase flick as much as the next pistonhead, but at what cost? One of the rarest and most totally friggin' awesome cars in the world was destroyed. And even if it was accidental, so what? At least Stefan Eriksson and the elusive Dietrich were attempting something legitimate, something the car they eliminated was designed to do. Griffin merely stuffed it into a concrete barrier at 25 mph. Just pathetic; a waste. Save the Enzos? Save yourself $10 and ignore this movie.

There were a few positives to my little excursion, however. Parked next to the murdered hypercar were a Ferrari 599 GTB, an F430, a Ford GT, a Saleen S7, a Lamborghini Gallardo and a Mercedes SLR McLaren. Those were nice, though even in death the Enzo outshined them all. I also got to race a BMW 335i down Highland. I had him until about 45mph and then good launch technique and rally-honed grip gave way to more turbos/power. – Jonny Lieberman

Related:
Wrecked 'Redline' Enzo to Make Chinese Theatre Appearance; Question Of The Day: Was The Eddie Griffin Enzo Crash A Publicity Stunt?; More: Save the Enzos [Interna]