Aventador Auto Express review
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Just read this week's Auto Express. They took the new £240k Lamborghini Aventador on a 2 day drive to Germany to play on the autobahn.
Car was black and they commented on how dirty it got very quickly and one of the negatives was that when they ran it through a bog-standard machine car wash it ripped the front number plate off!!
Am sure Lamborghini will be delighted with the swirls..........
Car was black and they commented on how dirty it got very quickly and one of the negatives was that when they ran it through a bog-standard machine car wash it ripped the front number plate off!!
Am sure Lamborghini will be delighted with the swirls..........
on a more serious note......
fifth gear did a wash comparison once.... a pro detailer worked some new fords and they were then washed by hand, by car wash, and at a 'hand car wash'......he then re-examined the paint....
for swirl marks etc the car wash faired better than the hand car wash!!! beause they use the same mitt car after car, surface after surface etc etc etc.....
not that i would use either, but how many nice cars do you see at these cheap hand car washes....
fifth gear did a wash comparison once.... a pro detailer worked some new fords and they were then washed by hand, by car wash, and at a 'hand car wash'......he then re-examined the paint....
for swirl marks etc the car wash faired better than the hand car wash!!! beause they use the same mitt car after car, surface after surface etc etc etc.....
not that i would use either, but how many nice cars do you see at these cheap hand car washes....
70proof said:
not that i would use either, but how many nice cars do you see at these cheap hand car washes....
Pretty sure Shmee has some photos of the things he sees at his hand car wash, not sure its a cheap one though. 
I think these are only minor points about the Aventador, would never put me off buying one, as many other supercars suffer from the same problems.
Harry Riddles said:
Pretty sure Shmee has some photos of the things he sees at his hand car wash, not sure its a cheap one though.
I think these are only minor points about the Aventador, would never put me off buying one, as many other supercars suffer from the same problems.
Yup, the list includes Enzo, Veyron, SLR, Phantom, plenty of Ferraris/Lambos etc but maybe that's just London for you.I think these are only minor points about the Aventador, would never put me off buying one, as many other supercars suffer from the same problems.
"Our Lambo wasn’t perfect, though. Its black paint required constant cleaning, while the front number plate bracket bent and came off when we drove through an automatic car wash. The other nasty surprise was at the pumps on one part of the route – the Aventador guzzled 65 litres of fuel in just 186 miles for a wallet-shredding average of 13mpg.
But you get what you pay for. No supercar this side of a Bugatti Veyron copes with such high speeds so easily, yet even the Veyron doesn’t have the Aventador’s agility.
The beauty of its technical advances – such as the McLaren MP4-12C-style carbon tub and push-rod suspension – is that Lamborghini doesn’t let you see them. And the scary thing for rivals is that the car is this talented, yet still has room to develop."
I think they liked it!
But you get what you pay for. No supercar this side of a Bugatti Veyron copes with such high speeds so easily, yet even the Veyron doesn’t have the Aventador’s agility.
The beauty of its technical advances – such as the McLaren MP4-12C-style carbon tub and push-rod suspension – is that Lamborghini doesn’t let you see them. And the scary thing for rivals is that the car is this talented, yet still has room to develop."
I think they liked it!
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