RE: Lamborghini Huracan Performante at the 'ring

[PurpleAki]

I imagine you are trolling.

But if not, the Huracan looks like a TT does it?

[Audemars]

Read and comprehend. Audi have curved the Huracan too much like its TT. No it doesn't look like a TT dip..

[PurpleAki]

I don't care what you say, I see no similarity whatsoever.

[V10Ace]

[quote=PurpleAki]

Which marque have you spent your own money on?

These threads always make me smile. Grown men (wealthy businessmen/owners) in some cases squabbling over a half a second difference between various cars. It would be utterly undetectable and irrelevant on the road. They are all st hot fast and uber desirable but it really seems to get people's backs up.
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All in the name of "a bit o' fun"

We need the next fix, wether that's an argument or perfomance or an argument to go with our performance.

Keeps the blood pumping...

[Juno]

br d said:

Yipper said:

br d said:

Yipper said:

Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren. The only company with 2 roadcars under the benchmark 7min Ring time. There is a new king in town.

Do you work in advertising?

Work in facts

For example, the Huracan Performante is ~30secs faster round the Ring than the 488 GTB, a similarly priced car. The gulf, now, is like night and day.

Well we've still got to see some real world figures, or indeed any confirmed figures at all but you have to admit Yippers old chap that your post up there is dripping hyperbole.

I may well be in the market for this car if it turns out to be the miracle it's being touted as, if not I'll head over to McLaren for a 720S but we need to look at an awful lot more than a Ring time before getting carried away here.
McLaren have already said the 720S is hitting 125mph in 7.8 seconds (and judging by their previously released stats I expect it will be a genuine figure), now that's bloody quick. And of course the car will be supremely comfortable, have all the gizmos and grip like a crab on a tramps pube. Now if the Performante has all this too, as well as this legendary Ring time it'll be getting my money.

But so far it all seems to be about this one facet. If the Lambo turns out to be stripped out, noisy, animal like track car then it won't be quite so impressive.

If I'm going to spend this sort of money on a car I will apply an equation:
How often will I drive it at the Ring/How often will I drive it everywhere else?
That'll work out at a ratio of about a million to one for me so factors other than it's Ring time become crucial.

Of course if you are in the fortunate position to be able to buy one purely to take to the Ring then it's looking bang on!

However as in all these things I will be happy to be proved wrong, either car will do.

Edited by br d on Thursday 23 February 16:39

The Performante is not a stripped out Racer its a full road car with all the creatures and comforts,I've sat in it

Also you wont be getting one unless you ordered a good while back as they are already sold out by a mile

And Yipper will be Laughing when you have to eat the Humble Cake

Anyway not long to wait now Porsche Mclaren

Edited by Juno on Saturday 25th February 19:32

[Juno]

RamboLambo said:

Where's Juno ???????

I'm here have no fear but nothing I hadn't already heard. Stuffed 918 and everything else, so 918 1.2 Million to P1 and La Fezza circa 3 Million but all slower than Huracan Perfomante at a fraction of the cost

Edited by Juno on Saturday 25th February 20:06

[br d]

Juno said:

br d said:

Yipper said:

br d said:

Yipper said:

Lambo is now crushing Ferrari, Porsche and McLaren. The only company with 2 roadcars under the benchmark 7min Ring time. There is a new king in town.

Do you work in advertising?

Work in facts

For example, the Huracan Performante is ~30secs faster round the Ring than the 488 GTB, a similarly priced car. The gulf, now, is like night and day.

Well we've still got to see some real world figures, or indeed any confirmed figures at all but you have to admit Yippers old chap that your post up there is dripping hyperbole.

I may well be in the market for this car if it turns out to be the miracle it's being touted as, if not I'll head over to McLaren for a 720S but we need to look at an awful lot more than a Ring time before getting carried away here.
McLaren have already said the 720S is hitting 125mph in 7.8 seconds (and judging by their previously released stats I expect it will be a genuine figure), now that's bloody quick. And of course the car will be supremely comfortable, have all the gizmos and grip like a crab on a tramps pube. Now if the Performante has all this too, as well as this legendary Ring time it'll be getting my money.

But so far it all seems to be about this one facet. If the Lambo turns out to be stripped out, noisy, animal like track car then it won't be quite so impressive.

If I'm going to spend this sort of money on a car I will apply an equation:
How often will I drive it at the Ring/How often will I drive it everywhere else?
That'll work out at a ratio of about a million to one for me so factors other than it's Ring time become crucial.

Of course if you are in the fortunate position to be able to buy one purely to take to the Ring then it's looking bang on!

However as in all these things I will be happy to be proved wrong, either car will do.

Edited by br d on Thursday 23 February 16:39

The Performante is not a stripped out Racer its a full road car with all the creatures and comforts,I've sat in it

Also you wont be getting one unless you ordered a good while back as they are already sold out by a mile

And Yipper will be Laughing when you have to eat the Humble Cake

Anyway not long to wait now Porsche Mclaren

Edited by Juno on Saturday 25th February 19:32

Okay Juno, I admire your blind faith but I'll still wait for some actual figures.
Your singular obsession with an unverified Ring time is starting to get a bit erm...carbon tub.

[Juno]

I find it quite funny how everyone is so dismissive of Lamborghini being able to achieve this. I would have actually thought petrol heads might be more curious as to,if and how, rather than just quoting power to weight ratios and comparing other vehicles with better power to weight that haven't done it?

I don't yet know the exact composition of the tub but it is part carbon based so again not dissimilar to another brand and not only carbon but using a new type of carbon technology!!!


I'm not sure of the actual weight because I don't actually care but I think its somewhere around 1420-1440KGS, not exactly a Chelsea Tractor as I read somewhere


Regardless of Ring time at the moment this is my chosen purchase and I bought it well before any Ring time rumors so have not purchased just based on Ring time.I don't and have never tracked any of my road cars as I have always had a race car for that as I believe the track just ruins road cars,there all too heavy compared to race cars!

Anyway not long to wait now and it appears that Lamborghini are strategically leaking info the nearer we get to Geneva,my money for now is on a new Ring record well below the 918 and sub 3 seconds to 60

I am now ready to be down in Flames if it all goes pear shaped

[PurpleAki]

br d said:

Your singular obsession with an unverified Ring time is starting to get a bit erm...carbon tub.

[PapaJohns]

n17ves said:

BVB said:

And lest not forget, the 918 spanked the P1.

How did you come to that conclusion? ...please don't say a certain car show.

A certain car show on Netflix

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fnTZKvX5jg

[Juno]

PapaJohns said:

n17ves said:

BVB said:

And lest not forget, the 918 spanked the P1.

How did you come to that conclusion? ...please don't say a certain car show.

A certain car show on Netflix

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fnTZKvX5jg

Having posted the following quote some 10 days ago it seems to fit in perfectly with the reasons that the P1 gets its arse kicked by the 918,it just cant get the power down are therefore is a bit of an unruly PIG in the handling department

Quote: However the track times are very indicative of the handling characteristics of a car and what it can or cant do.

Keeping it simple you will not get a good track time unless the vehicle has,Good Balance,Stability,Turn In and the opportunity to get on the throttle as early as possible on corner exit without upsetting the rear too much. The speed you carry down the straights is very relevant to corner exit speed and therefore easily compromised if you have a car that cant get on the power early when coming out of the corners.

Obviously the ability to brake late and carry corner speed are also important but these generally come with the a fore mentioned characteristics.

If a car has a 1000BHP but can only deploy the full 1000bhp when above 150MPH then you have to ask yourself for how much of the lap will the 1000BHP have actually been used,probably in truth very little. That's the reason its just not a case of power to weight in gaining a good lap time!

If the car has the above abilities and it won't have lapped as quick as it did without them you will have a package capable of doing what you ask of it. There's nothing worse than having a stack of power when all the chassis gives you is under steer followed by lift off over steer and a rear end with grip that wont transmit the available power to the surface.

In closing the Lambo lap time is telling you that this car must be overtly better in all these departments than say a P1 or 918 which cant be a bad thing when sitting in the driving seat

END QUOTE

So as we now seem to know the Performante kicks the 918's Arse so the P1 is not really worth revisiting after watching the video

May I suggest its "Game Over" for now for the BIG boys New Balls Please New Game and new lessons to be learnt

[PurpleAki]

Look, I'm a fellow Lamborghini owner, but you're getting tiresome now. If you are parodying RamboLambo, fine, but even then its not really amusing anymore.

[Juno]

PurpleAki said:

Look, I'm a fellow Lamborghini owner, but you're getting tiresome now. If you are parodying RamboLambo, fine, but even then its not really amusing anymore.

fk me Not another Carbon Tub Comparison Personality Disorder Preacher Parody

Were talking about vehicles, new vehicles, new technology, new ideas, new records,new era, it's a car forum,I say what I say,others say what they say,the difference between me and Rambo is you wont find me telling people that they are wrong in their choice or their cars are st!

OK Lamborghini's are st,its all total BULL LAX I've just sent an e mail to cancel mine,phew that's better

I no longer defend the brand or give my opinion up against others and Ney Sayers as I could get labelled the next "Rambo" WTF is it with some people on here, do they just come looking for an argument.

As far as I am aware you have to log in and decide which threads to read,if this one is tiresome and pointless then don't fking read it

Chow for now

[Quickmoose]

How eloquent.

So my opinion is that the 918 has taught the rest a lesson and kicked all their backsides. New balls please, game changed.

[Juno]

Quickmoose said:

How eloquent.

So my opinion is that the 918 has taught the rest a lesson and kicked all their backsides. New balls please, game changed.

Nooooooo it was someone else,read the posts

BVB said:
And lest not forget, the 918 spanked the P1.

[isaldiri]

Juno said:

I find it quite funny how everyone is so dismissive of Lamborghini being able to achieve this. I would have actually thought petrol heads might be more curious as to,if and how, rather than just quoting power to weight ratios and comparing other vehicles with better power to weight that haven't done it?

That's the whole point. Simply believing the manufacturer like some are doing that some fancy new 'active aero' is primarily responsible for a tremendous increase in performance isn't good enough for everyone.

[Quickmoose]

Juno said:

Quickmoose said:

How eloquent.

So my opinion is that the 918 has taught the rest a lesson and kicked all their backsides. New balls please, game changed.

Nooooooo it was someone else,read the posts

BVB said:
And lest not forget, the 918 spanked the P1.

huh?

I state an opinion and you respond with that?

[Juno]

Its a good job that Benjamin Franklin believed in electricity before Pistonheads. if he had mentioned it on here he could have been convinced to give up with idea of harnessing it for beneficial use before he even got started

[Quickmoose]

[wst]

Quickmoose said:

I was really looking forward to an interesting conversation about the Huracan and cars with sneaky adjustable aero but instead it's absolutely dire.

Little hidden flaps vs. big slabs of exterior bodywork moving. Discuss.