Compare these two Huracan reviews, AutoCar & EVO
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Compare these two Huracan reviews, AutoCar & EVO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMv1sFTTqFE - Steve Sutcliffe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJZR_GMWMLY - Jethro Bovingdon
Quite different views. What should we think? As a buyer I'd not know who to follow ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMv1sFTTqFE - Steve Sutcliffe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJZR_GMWMLY - Jethro Bovingdon
Quite different views. What should we think? As a buyer I'd not know who to follow ...
not different views at all.....
both love the engine, ride, gearbox, brakes...
both feel it understeers too much to be a track car...
both say it is perfect for its optimal market... china
both say the variable steering option is best ignored....
both like it but feel it is too sanitized, but forms a great base for the superleggera... guess both wanted more....
I have the utmost respect for both their views, indeed I have bought two cars without driving based on steve's words and jethro persuaded me to get a 2wd Gallardo.....Jethro clearly is the better driver and managed to push the car harder... Look at his lines and drifting....
both love the engine, ride, gearbox, brakes...
both feel it understeers too much to be a track car...
both say it is perfect for its optimal market... china
both say the variable steering option is best ignored....
both like it but feel it is too sanitized, but forms a great base for the superleggera... guess both wanted more....
I have the utmost respect for both their views, indeed I have bought two cars without driving based on steve's words and jethro persuaded me to get a 2wd Gallardo.....Jethro clearly is the better driver and managed to push the car harder... Look at his lines and drifting....
Edited by 70proof on Saturday 6th September 21:13
70proof said:
not different views at all.....
both love the engine, ride, gearbox, brakes...
both feel it understeers too much to be a track car...
both say it is perfect for its optimal market... china
both say the variable steering option is best ignored....
both like it but feel it is too sanitized, but forms a great base for the superleggera... guess both wanted more....
I have the utmost respect for both their views, indeed I have bought two cars without driving based on steve's words and jethro persuaded me to get a 2wd Gallardo.....Jethro clearly is the better driver and managed to push the car harder... Look at his lines and drifting....
Jethro is a better driver? Ok...both love the engine, ride, gearbox, brakes...
both feel it understeers too much to be a track car...
both say it is perfect for its optimal market... china
both say the variable steering option is best ignored....
both like it but feel it is too sanitized, but forms a great base for the superleggera... guess both wanted more....
I have the utmost respect for both their views, indeed I have bought two cars without driving based on steve's words and jethro persuaded me to get a 2wd Gallardo.....Jethro clearly is the better driver and managed to push the car harder... Look at his lines and drifting....
Edited by 70proof on Saturday 6th September 21:13
Sorry bud, Steve could drive rings round him.
Pretty sure Jethro would tell Steve was the quicker driver too.
From Wiki..
"Steve Sutcliffe (born in 1968) is a former British auto racing driver who now works as a motoring journalist. His first serious racing took place in 1993 in the Caterham K Series Championship, where he finished the season second in points. In 1998 he raced in the TVR Tuscan Challenge, finishing eighth. He finished fourth in the 1999 season, and sixth in 2000 with two poles and three race wins.
In 2001 he got a drive in the British Touring Car Championship, replacing Thomas Erdos for the final two races at Brands Hatch, in a Lexus IS200 for ABG Motorsport/Total Motorsport.
In 2007, Sutcliffe set competitive times around the National Circuit at Silverstone in Honda's RA 107 Formula One car, and managed speeds of 178mph along the back straight. He did it in 48.58seconds compared to Honda F1 test driver James Rossiter 48.18 seconds"
"Steve Sutcliffe (born in 1968) is a former British auto racing driver who now works as a motoring journalist. His first serious racing took place in 1993 in the Caterham K Series Championship, where he finished the season second in points. In 1998 he raced in the TVR Tuscan Challenge, finishing eighth. He finished fourth in the 1999 season, and sixth in 2000 with two poles and three race wins.
In 2001 he got a drive in the British Touring Car Championship, replacing Thomas Erdos for the final two races at Brands Hatch, in a Lexus IS200 for ABG Motorsport/Total Motorsport.
In 2007, Sutcliffe set competitive times around the National Circuit at Silverstone in Honda's RA 107 Formula One car, and managed speeds of 178mph along the back straight. He did it in 48.58seconds compared to Honda F1 test driver James Rossiter 48.18 seconds"
70proof said:
not different views at all.....
both love the engine, ride, gearbox, brakes...
both feel it understeers too much to be a track car...
both say it is perfect for its optimal market... china
both say the variable steering option is best ignored....
both like it but feel it is too sanitized, but forms a great base for the superleggera... guess both wanted more....
I have the utmost respect for both their views, indeed I have bought two cars without driving based on steve's words and jethro persuaded me to get a 2wd Gallardo.....Jethro clearly is the better driver and managed to push the car harder... Look at his lines and drifting....
SS would p1ss all over JB ... and then some.both love the engine, ride, gearbox, brakes...
both feel it understeers too much to be a track car...
both say it is perfect for its optimal market... china
both say the variable steering option is best ignored....
both like it but feel it is too sanitized, but forms a great base for the superleggera... guess both wanted more....
I have the utmost respect for both their views, indeed I have bought two cars without driving based on steve's words and jethro persuaded me to get a 2wd Gallardo.....Jethro clearly is the better driver and managed to push the car harder... Look at his lines and drifting....
Edited by 70proof on Saturday 6th September 21:13
GRBF430F1 said:
Not worried about the drivers, what do we make of the car ?
I guess the next wish lish is between :
650S
458 Speciale
Huracan Superleggera
They are all pretty much on the same level, really.I guess the next wish lish is between :
650S
458 Speciale
Huracan Superleggera
Get the Huracan to feel like a rockstar. The 458 to feel like a racing driver. The 650 to feel like an expensive Porsche.
GRBF430F1 said:
Not worried about the drivers, what do we make of the car ?
I guess the next wish lish is between :
650S
458 Speciale
Huracan Superleggera
I guess what you are looking for is -I guess the next wish lish is between :
650S
458 Speciale
Huracan Superleggera
650S - will depreciate like the 12C, but maybe not as fast. Avoid.
458 Speciale. - Likely to come below £200k in the next year, then might be the next certain classic. Not as good an investment as a Scud, which once the world remembers Schumacher once sat in one, will be priceless. Guaranteed.
Huracan Superleggerra. - wait for the 37th limited edition version which has slightly different valve caps from the 36th and try to get a red one. Absolutely certain to be worth it's weight in myrrh by the end of next year.
Hope this helps.
Edited by Jules360 on Monday 8th September 06:43
It would be a cracking idea to ask Chris Harris, Jason Plato, The Stig, Jethro, Steve ... and a bunch of other great review drivers to do a Snetterton show down in a reasonably priced car, a Boxter S and a Gardner Douglas T70 Spider.
Incentive anyone?
And of course ... sponsored by Porsche or the likes.
Place your bets!
Incentive anyone?
And of course ... sponsored by Porsche or the likes.
Place your bets!
Jules360 said:
I guess what you are looking for is -
650S - will depreciate like the 12C, but maybe not as fast. Avoid.
458 Speciale. - Likely to come below £200k in the next year, then might be the next certain classic. Not as good an investment as a Scud, which once the world remembers Schumacher once sat in one, will be priceless. Guaranteed.
Huracan Superleggerra. - wait for the 37th limited edition version which has slightly different valve caps from the 36th and try to get a red one. Absolutely certain to be worth it's weight in myrrh by the end of next year.
Hope this helps.
650S - will depreciate like the 12C, but maybe not as fast. Avoid.
458 Speciale. - Likely to come below £200k in the next year, then might be the next certain classic. Not as good an investment as a Scud, which once the world remembers Schumacher once sat in one, will be priceless. Guaranteed.
Huracan Superleggerra. - wait for the 37th limited edition version which has slightly different valve caps from the 36th and try to get a red one. Absolutely certain to be worth it's weight in myrrh by the end of next year.
Hope this helps.
Edited by Jules360 on Monday 8th September 06:43
Based on your past predictions then it looks like the 650S is the one to go for unless you are trying to double bluff me
Good recent video of the Huracan getting to 60mph in 2.5 seconds, and topping out at ~215mph. It is almost as quick as a LaFerrari, P1 and 918S:
http://www.inautonews.com/video-see-a-lamborghini-...
http://www.inautonews.com/video-see-a-lamborghini-...
lamboman100 said:
Good recent video of the Huracan getting to 60mph in 2.5 seconds, and topping out at ~215mph. It is almost as quick as a LaFerrari, P1 and 918S:
http://www.inautonews.com/video-see-a-lamborghini-...
Wow that's mightily impressive but whats with the 4WD overheating warning ?http://www.inautonews.com/video-see-a-lamborghini-...
I think the Huracan looks fab from front and sides but looks awful from the back IMO almost like a hybrid.
What will always keep it apart from proper Lambos for me is the doors. Sure it can be as fast as it likes but without those outrageous scissor doors it's just doesn't cut it.
Sad I know but the performance figures are so high with these cars it's the detail and character that's makes the difference.
What will always keep it apart from proper Lambos for me is the doors. Sure it can be as fast as it likes but without those outrageous scissor doors it's just doesn't cut it.
Sad I know but the performance figures are so high with these cars it's the detail and character that's makes the difference.
It's funny that you think that, because I went to have a look at one, having previously thought the same about the back of it, but I thought it looked ok in the flesh. Perhaps it's that the Hurracan does have a wow factor that makes you forget about the look if it from certain angles.
And it's exactly the scissor doors that are putting me off a Maclaren.
Each to his own!
And it's exactly the scissor doors that are putting me off a Maclaren.
Each to his own!
Anyone driving a car will put there own views and tastes into a review. That is natural. If both were identical it would be worrying and possibly boring.
I really like the fiat Panda. All my friends take the piss out of me for that. We have different views.
I have driven the Huracan. Again I have my own take on it. All modern cars of this type have capabilities beyond the competence of most people who drive them. That is absolute capability. The chances of using that absolute are pretty remote in 99% of our driving on any public road. I liked it better than the Aventador, simply because it was more useable and practical. The new gearbox is also vastly better. In performance terms, you need to be pushing very very hard to need that extra 140bhp The V12 cars will always be more dramatic and if thats what you want in a car then the smaller ones will never do.
The difficulty for road testers in these types of cars, must be, to explain, what to most will be, 'slices of perfection' in digestible chunks!
I really like the fiat Panda. All my friends take the piss out of me for that. We have different views.
I have driven the Huracan. Again I have my own take on it. All modern cars of this type have capabilities beyond the competence of most people who drive them. That is absolute capability. The chances of using that absolute are pretty remote in 99% of our driving on any public road. I liked it better than the Aventador, simply because it was more useable and practical. The new gearbox is also vastly better. In performance terms, you need to be pushing very very hard to need that extra 140bhp The V12 cars will always be more dramatic and if thats what you want in a car then the smaller ones will never do.
The difficulty for road testers in these types of cars, must be, to explain, what to most will be, 'slices of perfection' in digestible chunks!
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