Monday 23rd January 2017

Lamborghini Aventador S: PH video review

Read the review? Now watch the video as Dan attempts to tame 740hp of raging Lamborghini Aventador S in the pouring rain...

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Quite a few words on the new Lamborghini Aventador S on PH already so we'll keep this introduction brief. Yes, hot on the heels of the homepage story we've got our full video review here for your enjoyment, the Aventador's 6.5-litre V12 thankfully doing a better job of making itself heard than Dan. As you'll see the conditions weren't exactly ideal for putting the car through its paces but we gave it a good go. And if you still want more we've got our previous walk around vid discussing some of the design features here.

Watch the video here

[Guffy]

Great vid, thanks and good job keeping it on the track with what I assume must be normal summer tyres?

[Dan Trent]

Yep, standard fit P Zeroes. OK, so they're bespoke to the car and Lamborghini made a big fuss in the press conference about how they've been tuned to work with the 4WS system. But I don't think they'd anticipated track conditions like the ones we had on the day! Credit to the car (and tyres!) though, it was a lot more sure-footed than I'd expected given the weather!

Cheers,

Dan

[ManyMotors]

If you can't test a car on a dry track, don't test it. Using an Aventador S in the rain is idiotic. I find your video worthless.

[Gemster041]

Excellant Video Dan! As always very insightful and informative and all the more for you pushing the car in the rain to provide a better overall review.

Lamborghini have taken an already stunning car and made it both visually and dynamically better as well. Long live those mighty V12's, our automotive landscape would be a poorer place without them!

Thanks

Edited by Gemster041 on Monday 23 January 19:52

Edited by Gemster041 on Monday 23 January 19:53

[carlpea]

ManyMotors said:

If you can't test a car on a dry track, don't test it. Using an Aventador S in the rain is idiotic. I find your video worthless.

If you can't post a half decent comment, don't comment. I find your post worthless.

[adamgbgore]

Well done Dan it's not easy testing a car with that much power in those conditions. And I'm guessing you didn't have a choice on the weather.

[mattwhite709]

Dan I really enjoyed the video, it takes a brave man to drive a V12 Lambo in those conditions on Track.

The Aventador has been my favorite model Lambo since the Countach and Diablo, just needs a nicer per of shoes.

[Blackpuddin]

carlpea said:

ManyMotors said:

If you can't test a car on a dry track, don't test it. Using an Aventador S in the rain is idiotic. I find your video worthless.

If you can't post a half decent comment, don't comment. I find your post worthless.

+1 on that. Presumably as an owner he would prefer to be taken by surprise regarding its wet-weather handling foibles.

[rare6499]

ManyMotors said:

If you can't test a car on a dry track, don't test it. Using an Aventador S in the rain is idiotic. I find your video worthless.

What the heck are you smoking? What was Dan supposed to do, walk away? Bwahaha. What a ludicrous comment.

Great review, that noise is incredible.

[Yipper]

Good vid.

Lambo have clearly beefed up their engineering team and deserve more journalist credit for their rapid progress.

First, the ASV beat the LF and P1 round the Nurb in 2015, at half the price. Second, the AS is pretty much the best V12 car on the planet in Jan 2017. Third, the HP will likely announce it has smashed the Ring record in Mar 2017 (at Geneva). After that, the Urus will bring hypercar performance for the first time to the SUV category in 2018.

Lambo has quietly stepped up a gear.

[dinkel]

I wonder how many could manage an under 10 mins 'Ring lap in an Aventador and in the rain.

My bet most of the Audi-Beemer-lease brigade can't do it.

[RB Will]

dinkel said:

I wonder how many could manage an under 10 mins 'Ring lap in an Aventador and in the rain.

My bet most of the Audi-Beemer-lease brigade can't do it.

I have done a 10.20 in a standard Subaru Legacy while chasing and catching a Lambo Gallardo in the pissing down rain so he must have done about 10.25.
I wouldnt have wanted to push much harder in the Legacy but I'd like to think a Lambo with an additional 500bhp would get me down the straights 20 secs quicker.

would love to have a play in one on a sodding wet track like in this video though.

Also I was just listening to the audio at the start of the vid and thought it was Alan Partridge doing the review, voice is very similar!

[Blackpuddin]

Every time I see a supercar in the wet I wonder why no manufacturer has yet come up with a less prehistoric method of clearing the screen than a couple of bits of bent metal with rubber strips glued to them.

[Guffy]

Blackpuddin said:

Every time I see a supercar in the wet I wonder why no manufacturer has yet come up with a less prehistoric method of clearing the screen than a couple of bits of bent metal with rubber strips glued to them.

RainX does a pretty good job once you're on the move!

[JohnGoodridge]

Blackpuddin said:

Every time I see a supercar in the wet I wonder why no manufacturer has yet come up with a less prehistoric method of clearing the screen than a couple of bits of bent metal with rubber strips glued to them.

+1, if Dyson can dry your hands with aerodynamics, why can't the automotive industry clear a windscreen with airflow?

[RB Will]

JohnGoodridge said:

Blackpuddin said:

Every time I see a supercar in the wet I wonder why no manufacturer has yet come up with a less prehistoric method of clearing the screen than a couple of bits of bent metal with rubber strips glued to them.

+1, if Dyson can dry your hands with aerodynamics, why can't the automotive industry clear a windscreen with airflow?

It would either require the car travelling at 100mph which it cant do most of the time or need a big dyson airblade at the bottom of the windscreen

[Blackpuddin]

RB Will said:

JohnGoodridge said:

Blackpuddin said:

Every time I see a supercar in the wet I wonder why no manufacturer has yet come up with a less prehistoric method of clearing the screen than a couple of bits of bent metal with rubber strips glued to them.

+1, if Dyson can dry your hands with aerodynamics, why can't the automotive industry clear a windscreen with airflow?

It would either require the car travelling at 100mph which it cant do most of the time or need a big dyson airblade at the bottom of the windscreen

So the airblade then. How hard can it be?

[Roadblok]

ManyMotors said:

If you can't test a car on a dry track, don't test it. Using an Aventador S in the rain is idiotic. I find your video worthless.

ManyMotors, for your own sanity, DON'T READ THIS!

http://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-features/ic...

[anonymous-user]

Great video Dan! Looked like you were having fun, and even remembered "magnetorheological" whilst giving the 'dor some stick ;-)

[RB Will]

Blackpuddin said:

RB Will said:

JohnGoodridge said:

Blackpuddin said:

Every time I see a supercar in the wet I wonder why no manufacturer has yet come up with a less prehistoric method of clearing the screen than a couple of bits of bent metal with rubber strips glued to them.

+1, if Dyson can dry your hands with aerodynamics, why can't the automotive industry clear a windscreen with airflow?

It would either require the car travelling at 100mph which it cant do most of the time or need a big dyson airblade at the bottom of the windscreen

So the airblade then. How hard can it be?

Probably a bit of a ballache and expense to fit in. Thats if it could even be made to work. The Airblade has an effective range of about 5cm, your typical car windscreen is about 20 times that. It would need a massive power boost to work and that would make one hell of a noise.
The opening would also probably fill with water, dirt, leaves too.
Wipers are actually quite a good solution.