A Murcielago you might now want to buy..
A Murcielago you might now want to buy..
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Justices

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3,682 posts

195 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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I was sent a link of a bunch of clowns jumping and dancing (literally) on a Murcielago Roadster. The once famous Tom Green was in the thick of things (using the intake wing to step up onto the engine cover no less).

Recognised the car and thought the owners might be interested in viewing. Needless to say there were more than a few expletives in the return email.

For all the passion, vision, design and engineering, not to mention the man hours to create this car, to have it end up as a rental car for people with no idea is a more than a little sad.

Dancing on Lambo

steve06

756 posts

229 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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There's hundreds of rental lambos out there that get abused.

s99ane

1,262 posts

265 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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Bunch of Retards

lambo_xx

2,199 posts

228 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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Why would you climb on top of any car? I would never do that to someone else's car let alone someone else's Lamborghini!

Look at this video of two young Pakistani guys who rented and subsequently crashed a LP640. Shocking! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1pleZbxN_o

cronk-flakes

3,480 posts

284 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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The doors were up, the owner couldn't have been far away, shirley?? confused

Not that it makes it right...

Justices

Original Poster:

3,682 posts

195 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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Rental car. Driver obviously not too attached to his deposit wink

cronk-flakes

3,480 posts

284 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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Justices said:
Rental car. Driver obviously not too attached to his deposit wink
Do'h - Of course!

What a ridiculous and blatant display of disrespect...

teen_cerbera

7,927 posts

256 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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No Idea why, I suspect the guy in the white trousers on top of the car was the guy who hired it....He looks the "look what I can afford to do" type.

Porkie

2,378 posts

272 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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If its Steve0 from Jackass... I am pretty sure it was one of the producers or a friend of theirs rather than a rental car?

at work and can't see the video myself

Edited by Porkie on Thursday 7th October 12:27

al1991

4,552 posts

211 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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Bam Margera, a skateboarder on jackass, owns a viola Murcie. Can't view the video so don't know if it's that one...


steve06

756 posts

229 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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al1991 said:
Bam Margera, a skateboarder on jackass, owns a viola Murcie. Can't view the video so don't know if it's that one...
He owns a viola Gallardo, and he cut a hole in the roof with an angle grinder to install a sunroof.... moron!

cronk-flakes

3,480 posts

284 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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steve06 said:
al1991 said:
Bam Margera, a skateboarder on jackass, owns a viola Murcie. Can't view the video so don't know if it's that one...
He owns a viola Gallardo, and he cut a hole in the roof with an angle grinder to install a sunroof.... moron!
Swapped up for a Murci Roadster in the last few years. The one in the vid is Yellow, so don't think it's the same.

Daggerpie

1,434 posts

232 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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Doubt its a rental car with those rims,prob just some rich dudes car who really couldn't give a fig.

Justices

Original Poster:

3,682 posts

195 months

Thursday 7th October 2010
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The majority of exotic rental cars in Miami have custom rims. It's a showboat town and standard wheels aren't preferred I'd say 80% of the time. The more established companies stock a few sets rims for each car as well as the standard wheels to cater for their clients varying tastes.

There was a red Bentley GT with red rims at a place I used to have a small % of. The more reserved clients who kept the car for over a week usually took the standard wheels or the black set we stocked. The Lambos and Ferrari's usually went out with custom wheels which were changed as frequently as the cars as some clients weren't keen on coughing up thousands of quid to drive up and down the beach at 5mph in a known rental super car rolleyes

The clients in for a wild weekend together with the sport and entertainment guys etc usually went with the attention grabbing wheel option. Naturally the cars get murdered so if you happen to be buying an exotic motor in South Florida, a THOROUGH history check is CRUCIAL as to most (not all) people there cars are simply objects and are not treasured the way they are back home.

It's very easy to have a nightmare, ESPECIALLY in Miami, with ill-repaired/maintained cars falling apart and you being given an invoice for something difficult to disprove.

If you are over in the U.S this place is one of the better companies in Miami. For NY these are the guys to talk to.

teen_cerbera

7,927 posts

256 months

Tuesday 12th October 2010
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Justices said:
The majority of exotic rental cars in Miami have custom rims. It's a showboat town and standard wheels aren't preferred I'd say 80% of the time. The more established companies stock a few sets rims for each car as well as the standard wheels to cater for their clients varying tastes.

There was a red Bentley GT with red rims at a place I used to have a small % of. The more reserved clients who kept the car for over a week usually took the standard wheels or the black set we stocked. The Lambos and Ferrari's usually went out with custom wheels which were changed as frequently as the cars as some clients weren't keen on coughing up thousands of quid to drive up and down the beach at 5mph in a known rental super car rolleyes

The clients in for a wild weekend together with the sport and entertainment guys etc usually went with the attention grabbing wheel option. Naturally the cars get murdered so if you happen to be buying an exotic motor in South Florida, a THOROUGH history check is CRUCIAL as to most (not all) people there cars are simply objects and are not treasured the way they are back home.

It's very easy to have a nightmare, ESPECIALLY in Miami, with ill-repaired/maintained cars falling apart and you being given an invoice for something difficult to disprove.

If you are over in the U.S this place is one of the better companies in Miami. For NY these are the guys to talk to.
Am I missing something with the cars in your first link? The red Gallardo Spyder is $2,500/day and 513bhp (about right) yet the orangey GS is $1,450/day and 483bhp, why the power & price difference, i note ones manual but I didnt think that made a difference? Strange that a gallardo spyder is the same cost as an LP640 roadster & $1k a day more than a LP560 tin top?

Sarnie

8,377 posts

240 months

Tuesday 12th October 2010
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teen_cerbera said:
Justices said:
The majority of exotic rental cars in Miami have custom rims. It's a showboat town and standard wheels aren't preferred I'd say 80% of the time. The more established companies stock a few sets rims for each car as well as the standard wheels to cater for their clients varying tastes.

There was a red Bentley GT with red rims at a place I used to have a small % of. The more reserved clients who kept the car for over a week usually took the standard wheels or the black set we stocked. The Lambos and Ferrari's usually went out with custom wheels which were changed as frequently as the cars as some clients weren't keen on coughing up thousands of quid to drive up and down the beach at 5mph in a known rental super car rolleyes

The clients in for a wild weekend together with the sport and entertainment guys etc usually went with the attention grabbing wheel option. Naturally the cars get murdered so if you happen to be buying an exotic motor in South Florida, a THOROUGH history check is CRUCIAL as to most (not all) people there cars are simply objects and are not treasured the way they are back home.

It's very easy to have a nightmare, ESPECIALLY in Miami, with ill-repaired/maintained cars falling apart and you being given an invoice for something difficult to disprove.

If you are over in the U.S this place is one of the better companies in Miami. For NY these are the guys to talk to.
Am I missing something with the cars in your first link? The red Gallardo Spyder is $2,500/day and 513bhp (about right) yet the orangey GS is $1,450/day and 483bhp, why the power & price difference, i note ones manual but I didnt think that made a difference? Strange that a gallardo spyder is the same cost as an LP640 roadster & $1k a day more than a LP560 tin top?
Because, who wants to drive around Miami in a tin top??????

teen_cerbera

7,927 posts

256 months

Tuesday 12th October 2010
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Sarnie said:
teen_cerbera said:
Justices said:
The majority of exotic rental cars in Miami have custom rims. It's a showboat town and standard wheels aren't preferred I'd say 80% of the time. The more established companies stock a few sets rims for each car as well as the standard wheels to cater for their clients varying tastes.

There was a red Bentley GT with red rims at a place I used to have a small % of. The more reserved clients who kept the car for over a week usually took the standard wheels or the black set we stocked. The Lambos and Ferrari's usually went out with custom wheels which were changed as frequently as the cars as some clients weren't keen on coughing up thousands of quid to drive up and down the beach at 5mph in a known rental super car rolleyes

The clients in for a wild weekend together with the sport and entertainment guys etc usually went with the attention grabbing wheel option. Naturally the cars get murdered so if you happen to be buying an exotic motor in South Florida, a THOROUGH history check is CRUCIAL as to most (not all) people there cars are simply objects and are not treasured the way they are back home.

It's very easy to have a nightmare, ESPECIALLY in Miami, with ill-repaired/maintained cars falling apart and you being given an invoice for something difficult to disprove.

If you are over in the U.S this place is one of the better companies in Miami. For NY these are the guys to talk to.
Am I missing something with the cars in your first link? The red Gallardo Spyder is $2,500/day and 513bhp (about right) yet the orangey GS is $1,450/day and 483bhp, why the power & price difference, i note ones manual but I didnt think that made a difference? Strange that a gallardo spyder is the same cost as an LP640 roadster & $1k a day more than a LP560 tin top?
Because, who wants to drive around Miami in a tin top??????
Someone who wants a more expensive, superior Gallardo? It doesnt even appear to be a 560 Spyder? Dont think the fact that its a spyder commands a 70% price increase, lamborghini charge approx 5% to step up from a tintop to a spyder. Maybe its just me thinking the pricing is odd...

Justices

Original Poster:

3,682 posts

195 months

Tuesday 12th October 2010
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Looks like a typo there. The spiders usually go out for a tiny bit more as a convertible in Miami for the weekend is great, but there really is no set price to speak of. They have a bottom number and they will charge anything from that to their published rate. If you lease the cars for a few days a Gallardo Spyder can be had for sub $900 without too much fuss.

The main companies change their stock so frequently that the car shots on their website are almost always out of date. Not to mention their cars get wrecked far more frequently that perhaps anywhere else. Some of the crash and theft stories out of Miami are barely believable.

- 5 day old LP640 written off while doing standing starts to 130mph on Collins Ave on a Friday night.

- A chap changed rims on a Bentley GT before trying to sell the car out of state with no documents.

- A client that refused to pay for a broken window on a GT3 dropped the car off and made a tyre squealing getaway in another Porsche.. only in Miami.

The rental business in Miami is more word of mouth and the Miami way is to stick the Murcielago outside of a shop on South Beach with a "RENT ME" sign on the dashboard. Crude, but it seems to work well enough. Also, with Miami's #1 imported product yielding so much cash, a lot of this undeclared income goes into this luxury/super car rental market so they never really need to be as media savvy as Gotham Dream Cars based in NY.

A mate from London has just started a new venture over there catering to the classics. His selection, and the cars he will add to the fleet, should steer him clear of the abusers that can't drive a manual and trash the Lambos/Ferrari's.

Great business when things run smoothly. Nightmare when they don't.

ianqv

1,278 posts

244 months

Tuesday 12th October 2010
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Yet another confirmed use for an AK47!!

al1991

4,552 posts

211 months

Wednesday 9th March 2011
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Bloody phone.

Edited by al1991 on Wednesday 9th March 11:11