Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce LP750-4 Review
What's hot: The hottest-looking car on the planet, prodigious handling and sense of intent; the fastest production Lamborghini ever, fabulous V12, 0-100km/h in 2.8 seconds.
What's not: Living in Australia. US price of $US400,995 sounds like a Black Friday bargain next to our $882,650. Is it worth as much as a garage full of Porsche 911s?
X-FACTOR: This car attracts attention like setting fire to yourself; stunning in pictures, it's absurd in the flesh.
Vehicle style: Super-sports coupe
Price: Yes, the price: let's just mention it again - $882,650, a huge amount of which is Luxury Car Tax. In Europe, where you could actually enjoy driving it, it's only 327,190 Euros.
Engine/trans: 6.5-litre V12; 552kW/690Nm; 7-spd automated manual.
OVERVIEW
The thing with having super powers is that it makes other people seem even more annoying and stupid.
For a super car like the Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce LP750-4, other more-normal cars look like little more than insignificant, and slightly pathetic, mobile chicanes.
But you'll be spared sharing a road, much less a freeway, with such lesser beings.
Because the fastest production Lambo ever produced will be too much of a challenge to drive on public roads. Simply, its power and performance - 552kW, 690Nm, 0 to 100km/h in 2.8 seconds - belongs in a different world.
On a race track, basically.
This is at least partly why the new SV was launched on the F1-hosting Circuit de Catalunya, the other reason being that the car is so hard riding and firm-seated that driving it on the road might feel like being beaten with a stick.
Realistically, though, the track is the only place you can fully appreciate a vehicle that will hit 200km/h from a standing start in just 8.6 seconds, or 300km/h in an astonishing 24 seconds. And that's what this car will do.
As one engineer commented, you can only really appreciate how much better the SV is than the standard, and now four years old, Aventador, when you accelerate hard from 160km/h.
To get that extra shove, Lamborghini jammed another 42kW into the car and scraped out 50kg (down to 1525kg) by removing all of the carpets, most of the sound-deadening and even the infotainment system.
The term “power-to-weight ratio” becomes entirely visceral in a car like this, with the experience made more raw, and roar, by that boned-out interior.
This is a Lambo of serious intent, with a seriously large rear wing forming part of an aero upgrade that sees vertical downforce increase by a whopping 150 per cent.
The SV grips as well as it goes, and it goes like hell.
INTERIOR | RATING: 3/5
- Alcantara steering wheel, seats (with optional super-light Carbon Skin coverings).
- Carbon-fibre door skins and visible chassis parts in cabin.
- Giant new bright yellow TFT race-car style screen.
- Slashy SV logos all over the place.
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