Feeling Ballsy?

[AC123]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2012-Lamborghini-Aventa...

Roughly £35-40k below the market.

Anyone ever bought an ex experience day car?

[romeodelta]

I can understand people not wanting an experience day car, but what would actually be 'wrong' with it?

They're not exactly driven hard and are usually well looked after.

Maybe a few extra stone chips, a bit of wear and tear from loading on/off a trailer and some extra bolster wear?

What am I missing?

[r o n n i e]

romeodelta said:

...They're not exactly driven hard...l

Really? I would have thought these types of cars are driven only in abuse mode by 100s+ punters, most of whom to be fair have bought an experience that is marketed as thrilling not driving ms daisy.

It’ll priced accordingly for a reason.

[davek_964]

r o n n i e said:

romeodelta said:

...They're not exactly driven hard...l

Really? I would have thought these types of cars are driven only in abuse mode by 100s+ punters, most of whom to be fair have bought an experience that is marketed as thrilling not driving ms daisy.

It’ll priced accordingly for a reason.

I think that depends on the type of experience day. I've seen plenty of complaints about some that say people bought an experience that was marketed as thrilling, but the reality was that they had to be in top gear by about 50mph, and were unlikely to get above 80.

[DanPhoto]

If it was part of the North Weald supercar experience in Essex then you can rest assured the car has never topped 40mph.

[Crazy4557]

r o n n i e said:

Really? I would have thought these types of cars are driven only in abuse mode by 100s+ punters, most of whom to be fair have bought an experience that is marketed as thrilling not driving ms daisy.

It’ll priced accordingly for a reason.

I was bought a 3 car experience at Brands Hatch recently.
I chose the F430, Ariel Atom and GT3RS (extra £50.00).

Firstly, the F430 which was a spider, this was the most awful drive experience ever in what was a totally shagged and worn out car with excess camber making the steering feel very heavy.
The Ariel Atom next was an actual Cup race car BUT you have to drive them on your laps in 5th gear, DO NOT CHANGE GEARS SIR!! Through the slalom, round Druids all in 5th gear, what a crap experience.
The GT3RS was better as the instructor was a bit more relaxed and allowed you to rev to around 6k just where all the action starts!

So, a Supercar experience yes, but in reality but not super with no chance to explore their performance or handling abilities so a waste of time and money.

The Lambo in question was probably driven quite aggressively on demo laps but unlikely that any Tom, Dick,Harry or Susie (PC version) would have been allowed to thrash them so probably not a bad buy considering it was relatively low on miles.

[RTB]

Crazy4557 said:

I was bought a 3 car experience at Brands Hatch recently.
I chose the F430, Ariel Atom and GT3RS (extra £50.00).

Firstly, the F430 which was a spider, this was the most awful drive experience ever in what was a totally shagged and worn out car with excess camber making the steering feel very heavy.
The Ariel Atom next was an actual Cup race car BUT you have to drive them on your laps in 5th gear, DO NOT CHANGE GEARS SIR!! Through the slalom, round Druids all in 5th gear, what a crap experience.
The GT3RS was better as the instructor was a bit more relaxed and allowed you to rev to around 6k just where all the action starts!

So, a Supercar experience yes, but in reality but not super with no chance to explore their performance or handling abilities so a waste of time and money.

The Lambo in question was probably driven quite aggressively on demo laps but unlikely that any Tom, Dick,Harry or Susie (PC version) would have been allowed to thrash them so probably not a bad buy considering it was relatively low on miles.

Exactly my experience of these things. We got whizzed round on a "sighting" lap by an instructor in an Audi RS6 and then got to drive round in the supercar (a Gallardo), which entailed getting shouted at by the instructor if you changed gear. It wasn't much of an experience and it wasn't much fun.

I can't imagine this car has had a very hard life to be honest.

[sparta6]

Biggest threat will be brakes taking a pounding (I've noticed they overheat when a newbie driver is understandably brake-heavy on circuit) but easily swapped out.