Miuras are gorgeous cars. When it launched, nothing else on the road could possibly hope to catch it on a top-speed run. This was a car capable of over 180MPH in 1968, which no other car came close to at the time. This 1969 model was here in all its Bertone-bodied glory at Hershey last month. Continue reading 1969 Lamborghini Miura P400S at the Elegance at Hershey, 2015
My buddy Josh had the good fortune to find a Lamborghini Huracan out and about in Princeton, NJ. He sent me some photos, so I figured I’d share them.
Love the Huracan.
-Nick
Behold! Our second round of highlights from The Elegance at Hershey 2015. The show is always a spectacle of some of the finest pre-war cars around, with a few post-war cars thrown into the mix as well.
Enjoy this second highlight gallery, and look for even more from Hershey to come!
We caught this mean green Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder Performante roaming around the Quail Lodge while out in Monterey for Car Week. The Performante is the ultimate version of the Gallardo Spyder, with its 562hp V10 engine and sharper handling. There are even a handful of manual Performantes around, which I’m sure would all trade for ridiculous amount of money.
This is certainly crazy, just how a Lambo should be!
-Nick
Lamborghini has released the crazier, more hardcore version of the Aventador, the LP-750 SV. The SV stands for Super Veloce, which basically means “higher velocity”… a Lambo that is faster then a standard Lambo.
Evidently, the Aventador SV is much improved in areas where the standard Aventador lacks a bit. When I drove the Aventador a few years back, I enjoyed much of the car, but I really didn’t like how it handled on the track at all. Hopefully, Lamborghini has fixed the Aventador with the SV in a similar way they did the Gallardo with the Superleggera. Brute acceleration and a screaming engine are awesome to have, but it’s nice when a car doesn’t just understeer to no end when you push it in corners.
Either way, the Lamborghini Aventador SV is one hell of a looker, and surely a sight that will be seen on bedroom walls across the world.
Enjoy the vid!
-Nick
On Day 2 of this year’s Greenwich Concours d’Elegance we were blessed with a sudden downpour that made everyone run for cover. However, it also covered all of the immaculate cars in some beautiful water droplets, making for some wonderful photos. Rain and clouds also really make the colors “pop”, so I actually prefer it to direct sunlight for shooting cars. I’d imagine that the gentleman in the silver Porsche RSK Spyder (below) might disagree, though.
There were some truly beautiful cars displayed on Day 2, including that bright yellow/green Lamborghini Miura you see above – we saw him driving around on the streets of Greenwich before the show, and promptly lost bowel control. Thankfully we all had a change of pants in the car.
I should also point out that the green Ferrari Daytona Spider (seen below) is the only one ever made in that color, so one of the rarest examples of an already rare car. The Pagani Huayra was also said to be “one of one”, but every Pagani is built custom to order, so every other Huayra is equally “one of one” – people just love to toot their own horn, I guess, but an incredible car for either way. (My Subaru is “one of one” too, if you count it’s unique stone chips)
I thought last year’s Greenwich Concours was the best in recent memory, but this one just may have topped it. There’s more to come from the event, but enjoy looking through our highlight gallery of Day 2!
Continue reading Highlights From the 2015 Greenwich Concours Day 2
I am someone who has publicly lamented the decline of the manual transmission. But I’m also someone who has enjoyed the merits of modern paddle shift gearboxes in many different cars.
I find myself very much split on this issue. So lets take a look at the various reasons why shifter paddles are replacing a gear lever and a third pedal in some of our favorite cars, and consider if it really is a good thing or not.
Note: To clear this up right away, by “paddle shift” I mean cars with automated manual gearboxes, either dual-clutch or single-clutch. I am in no way talking about anything like a Toyota Camry with the “sport package”, which has paddle shifters as a marketing gimmick.
1. More versatile on the road. (Having your cake and eating it too)
If you had something like a Lamborghini Diablo back in the mid 1990s chances are you had a lot of fun out on the open road. However, when you got into town and hit traffic, the heavy clutch made driving the car more of a $250,000 chore than an enjoyable way to spend a weekend afternoon. Considering the average speed of traffic on most roads is around 25-30mph, you’d be spending far more time putting along slowly than stretching the car’s legs. It’s a wonder why most owners hardly ever drove their exotic cars.
Today, Lamborghini only offers their cars with a paddle shift transmission. The sales numbers spoke for themselves. Once paddle shift was offered back around 2004, demand for manual Lambos simply fell off.
Paddle shift basically solved all the issues described above with the Diablo. Now, in an Aventador, you can rip your way into town and then just put the car in automatic mode when you hit traffic. You have a car that is a ferocious supercar when you want one, but is also just as easy to drive as a Toyota Camry when you don’t. You are no longer writing a six-figure check to put yourself through misery. And I agree, that is a major plus, especially in cars that had very difficult manual gearboxes like most supercars did.
Continue reading Why Is Paddle Shift Killing the Manual Transmission, and is it a good thing?
Spotted this insane camo-wrapped Lamborghini Aventador outside the New Hope Auto Show. Funny thing is they denied him entry to the show, even though there were plenty of spots available on the field. Luckily, I didn’t miss it!
-Nick
We went to the 2015 New York International Auto Show this past weekend to get up close with all of the cars we’ve been hearing so much about and commenting on in the last few months. NYIAS is always a fantastic time, but this year was the best it has been in 10 years. The show is a bit of a tradition for us to do with our friends, and this year we chose to forgo the press days so we could go with the group. I’ll admit up front that we didn’t get to everything that was at the show, but we had a blast with everyone. Here are our highlights and opinions on the cars we saw.
Continue reading Our Highlights From the 2015 New York International Auto Show
We spotted this intense Lamborghini Gallardo LP-570-4 Spyder Performante parked in Carmel, CA during Monterey Car Week. The Spyder Performante is the convertible version of the Gallardo Superleggera that I was so impressed by on the track a while back. That same hardcore experience without a roof would be unreal, and I’ve even seen a few of these fitted with a manual gearbox — so we can all add that to the list of things to covet in life.
I thought the the fighter jet gray showed off this Gallardo’s exotic lines quite well. And the audaciousness of those bright orange brake calipers still gave it the amount of flash that a Lambo needs. It was a stunning machine!
-Nick
The guys at Everyday Driver recently got the chance to take a stunning Lamborghini Countach for a spin, making all of their wet dreams from the 1980s come wonderfully true. Enjoy that V12 sound, and those epic looks!
-Nick
We found a few brand new Lamborghini Huracáns sitting around the Quail Lodge during our time at Monterey Car Week this year. I took a special liking to this red one!
-Nick
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