RE: Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster | Driven

RE: Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster | Driven

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Leon R

3,159 posts

95 months

Saturday 9th November 2019
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Give me the big Lambo any day.

chelme

1,353 posts

169 months

Saturday 9th November 2019
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wab172uk said:
Everything about this car I should love.

Yet apart from the V12 engine, it's too `In your face` for me. Some people will love that though. I'd be scared to park it anywhere in case it gets keyed, and I'd feel a T*t driving it.

On wide open roads in America, it'd be a wonderful car to own. But in the UK? Not so wonderful.
Ditto, and I'll add that the quality of the design is low...too many creases, all over the place; interior, exterior, it's just a mess. Diametrically opposed to say, the beautiful, subtle design of a Muira, or even Countach LP400 and no, nothing to do with 'crash regulations' either.


Edited by chelme on Saturday 9th November 23:15

carspath

832 posts

176 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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MaxTorque and Dan ... I am fortunate enough to own iterations / predecessors of the Mazda , the 981 , and the guillotine door V12 Lambo .

The Series 1 MX5 ( with decent tyres and geo) is easily the most involving to drive hard on narrow winding UK B roads , and not risk your license . There is real fun in being able to wind any car further up its capability range .

Tim bo

1,956 posts

139 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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Never liked Lambos. The wedge shapes and hard lines look damn ugly. This is more of the same.

No comparison to the gorgeous sweeping curves and delightful shapes that Ferrari manage to create time and again.

No poster car here for me.


chelme

1,353 posts

169 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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Tim bo said:
Never liked Lambos. The wedge shapes and hard lines look damn ugly. This is more of the same.

No comparison to the gorgeous sweeping curves and delightful shapes that Ferrari manage to create time and again.

No poster car here for me.
I am afraid Ferrari are losing direction too, bearing in mind their latest efforts. It's because they no longer collaborate with Pininfarina.

smilo996

2,745 posts

169 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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If the F1 is at one end of the supercar scale. Logical, precise, measured, with fanatical attention to detail. This must be at the other, pointless, mad, bad, profligate and utterly intoxicating.
Just look at that engine bay and how tiny the driver looks.
Well done Lambo for just building it.

Edited by smilo996 on Sunday 10th November 10:13

Ho Lee Kau

2,278 posts

124 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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Which 700+ hp are too easy to drive, please?

Ho Lee Kau

2,278 posts

124 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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Leon R said:
Give me the big Lambo any day.
Truly!

Ho Lee Kau

2,278 posts

124 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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carspath said:
MaxTorque and Dan ... I am fortunate enough to own iterations / predecessors of the Mazda , the 981 , and the guillotine door V12 Lambo .

The Series 1 MX5 ( with decent tyres and geo) is easily the most involving to drive hard on narrow winding UK B roads , and not risk your license . There is real fun in being able to wind any car further up its capability range .
Sometimes less is more, I agree with you fully.... but if I had a Lambo, it would be 12 cylinder one, a Proper Lamborghini!

Ho Lee Kau

2,278 posts

124 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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fernando the frog said:
WJNB said:
I agree the ultimate poster car.
The fact that you have to manually remove & replace the roof panels is however unforgivable & it would be a deal break for me who has no interest in ANY car unless it can be driven al-fresco style.
Mind you I'd buy it just to annoy the sanctimonious holier-than-thou noisy mouthy green vegan climate change whining losers.
the only loser is someone who's so triggered by people with different opinions that they'd make a purchase purely to annoy
These “different opinion people” are the ones who are triggered, who do not accept any other opinion but theirs, who enforce their opinion on others and who cannot wait to forbid this that and the other thing and tax everyone to the hilt with all kind of taxes. Not losers but extremists, communists and/or anarchists to the core. Rebellion extinction is one example.

J4CKO

41,194 posts

199 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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It looks fantastic in that colour scheme, I am glad stuff like this exists.

However, "Its way, way too much car for the road", do owners track stuff like this or is it too expensive ? where can you ever let it rip like it sounds it wants to.

Sort of sounds incredibly frustrating, only using a maybe a quarter of its capability, feels wrong having something like that and having to use the same st roads as everything else. 100 mph in 5.5 seconds, jesus, that used to be a supercar 0-60 time.

gigglebug

2,611 posts

121 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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anthonysjb said:
The engineers purposely offset the V-12 slightly to the left to counter balance the weight of the driveshaft.
It think that it would still annoy me even though I appreciate the reasoning behind it.

saxy

258 posts

123 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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Butter Face said:
I love how big the car looks/how small the driver looks in that side shot..

My exact thought. The car is just too unnecessarily big.

drpep

1,758 posts

167 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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Fantastic. Really enjoyed reading that. Captured the drama of the car really well.

Wonderful that we can even still buy these things in 2019.

DoubleD

22,154 posts

107 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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saxy said:
Butter Face said:
I love how big the car looks/how small the driver looks in that side shot..

My exact thought. The car is just too unnecessarily big.
Lots of cars are huge, but at least this huge car looks exciting.

Gameface

16,565 posts

76 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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saxy said:
My exact thought. The car is just too unnecessarily big.
Unnecessarily? So they deliberately make it larger than it needs to be?

Johnny G Pipe

267 posts

227 months

Sunday 10th November 2019
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scottydoesntknow said:
Utterly bonkers. I love it. It’s great to think kids will be looking at pictures of this and being as in awe as we were when we bought Countach posters from Athena.
Except they’re not. They’re at best bemused at wtf its for, and at worst hating you because of its wopping carbon footprint.

wab172uk

2,005 posts

226 months

Monday 11th November 2019
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StuH said:
wab172uk said:
Everything about this car I should love.

Yet apart from the V12 engine, it's too `In your face` for me. Some people will love that though. I'd be scared to park it anywhere in case it gets keyed, and I'd feel a T*t driving it.

On wide open roads in America, it'd be a wonderful car to own. But in the UK? Not so wonderful.
Wab - Judging from your recent posts I suspect you think that about yourself because that is what you think about others driving such cars.

When I’m lucky enough to see cars like this on the road I just applaud a fellow petrol head, living the dream, and likely having worked their b0ll0x off to achieve it.
Not at all, and god knows where you've got that theory from. Anyone who buys one of these cars, good for them. If it's the car you want, great. It's just not a car I'd personally want to own.

But it is a car that is `In your face` and It's not something I want to be seen driving around in.

Isn't choice and personally preference great?

wab172uk

2,005 posts

226 months

Monday 11th November 2019
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fernando the frog said:
WJNB said:
I agree the ultimate poster car.
The fact that you have to manually remove & replace the roof panels is however unforgivable & it would be a deal break for me who has no interest in ANY car unless it can be driven al-fresco style.
Mind you I'd buy it just to annoy the sanctimonious holier-than-thou noisy mouthy green vegan climate change whining losers.
the only loser is someone who's so triggered by people with different opinions that they'd make a purchase purely to annoy
And yet you seem triggered by someone having an opinion that is different to your.


Dr Nookie

234 posts

199 months

Monday 11th November 2019
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Johnny G Pipe said:
Except they’re not. They’re at best bemused at wtf its for, and at worst hating you because of its wopping carbon footprint.
My 8 year old virtually explodes every time he sees any Lambo anywhere, And I'm pretty sure he isn't the only one.