A day in a Lamborghini Murcielago
May 14, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Before I start, we took lots of photos and you can find them in the Lamborghini Murcielago Gallery. Also there is a Video of the car on the 2nd page.
Before Anthony writes up the Road Test on this beast, I decided to write a less technical article from a car enthusiasts point of view – A day in a Lamborghini Murcielago.
It was 5am in the morning, every single cell in my body begged me to forget everything and sleep for another 2 hours, but alas, I had to get my self to the airport, there was a Lamborghini waiting for me in Sydney.
I had picked my seat away from the wing the day before, knowing that I’d be half asleep on the way so any down time was a bonus, however the bloke next to me had other ideas.
Wearing a Holden Monaro shirt with a mullet that could almost be fashionable and shoes that hadn’t been washed in 47 years, I knew he was either a genuine car nut, or a he was going to bore me to death about Holdens and Fords and how a push rod engine is still cutting edge technology.
I had decided to pack Jeremy Clarkson’s “On Cars” with me and the second I pulled it out for a quick glance, my Holden loving friend started going on about Top Gear. It was obvious, I wasn’t going to get any sleep.
After a 20 minute discussion arguing the finer points of brute force vs handling was sorted out, he asked me the question I was hoping he wouldn’t ask. Why you going to Sydney mate?
“Just visiting my folks…“, I thought in my head, just say that, then you can sleep, oh but how can you lie when the reality is just so much better?
After about 0.037 seconds of thought, with a massive smile on my face, I told him exactly what it takes for me to get up at 5am in the morning and catch a plane to a city I frankly don’t like all that much.
“I am going to Sydney to road test a Lamborghini Murcielago!”.
45 mins of car talk ensued and as most people do, the usual questions of “How does one go at getting a job at your work” followed. Sometimes I think to my self, how can you spend your days doing a job you hate, whilst your passion is begging for your attention.
I arrived, finally, said my goodbyes to my new friend and waited outside the terminal, sitting patiently for my ride to arrive. It was a surreal few minutes, it wasn’t just sheer excitement, it was madness – I felt like a school girl about to meet Justine Timberlake… and get to spend the day with him.
A few minutes passed and I heard it coming.. all 12 cylinders of raw Italian power roaring towards me, I wish I was lying, but every single person at the terminal stopped in their tracks, as if God had pressed pause, parents forgot about their children, birds fell out of the sky, guide dogs stopped guiding, elderly folks reached for their glasses. Here she comes…
It pulled up next to me and sat there in all its beauty, but my brain was frozen in a fit of sheer esctacy and everything that mattered stopped mattering for a brief second…. I was about to get in a Lamborghini Murcielago… (click here to read more)
Great write-up. Can’t believe I didn’t get to see it, I practically live on that damn road down to Wollongong.
I will put up the gallery soon
lots and lots and lots more photos
you are, quite truly, a lucky bastard alborz :P
great car, fantastic write-up.
THIS IS WHAT MOTORING IS ALL ABOUT!
Sooooo Alborz, how long have you had this “schoolgirl” feeling? Hmmmm?
Great article by the way.
Aw man,
This is my dream car, excellent write up, very funny.
So got our breath yet ? Pulse gone down?
Great write up !!!!
Going to take a lot to beat this feeling ha ?
Did we feel like being the STIG ??
Has to be “The Super Car of Super Cars”. I’ve always loved the lambo designs. Ever since the classic lambo opening in the cannonballrun!
Great read Alborz
Yep, it doesnt get better then this Lisa,
I think the next car I get will be a Hyundai! :|
“I think the next car I get will be a Hyundai!” I’ve always said there is a cheap way of getting 50% more performance and fun out of your existing car.
Just rent a crap car for a weekend.
Sure the exhaust isnt big enough!
i would go 4 a 1994 323! hehe
Nice pics and all, I’m still laughing at your example of “like a school girl meeting Justin Timberlake” lol..
In the video when you opened the door, I was expecting that you just press the button and have to open it just a lil bit and the rest it does itself.. but from what I saw wouldn’t that be annoying that you have you to pull the door up from that little bit of handle? (just curious lol)
Why don’t we have some form of a Top Gear , but Australian version? lol
yeah mate the door isnt that easy to open,
but its not that heavy
so it pulls up relatively simply,
as for the last question, we are working on it mate.. trust me :D
May I suggest some therapy before anything else is test driven ?
Bring on an Australian form of TOP GEAR.
Better than the bloody robots that we are feed now ! They talk to us like we know nothing about cars !Just like the idiots on 7 that now are doing V8 supercars.
Crap compared to what we use to have with 10 !!!
Husband said I could play the STIG but for the 2 air bags I have at the front. I have the TEE-SHIRT ex Top Gear too.
i dont think an aus version of top gear would work. theres absolutely no host i kno in aus that i consider to the likes of clarkson and even richard hammond.
they need to bring top gear to mainstream television. instead we’re fed with twop like fattest loser, big brother and *shudders* australian idol
id love to see an updated video segment on here. alborz?
Sam your a genius !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Find the Australian Host for Aus Top Gear!!!!
Run by Jeremy,James & Richard . Enter to be the 1 of the 3 hosts for Top Gear in Aus,with the guys from the UK giving challenges to the contestants and eliminating those that fail at the end of each week till 3 are left. Got to better than how they came up with Glen Ridge ,guy is a pussy !
Yeah going by some of the knuckle heads on this site an Australian Top Gear would be full of dickheads spouting how fantastic Toyota are ! It would never work you need real grunt high performance cars and looking around in this country apart from Ford, HSV, and Holden there’s not much left ! Oh actually the Elfin is Aussie made ? Thats one…..
That is a beast.
Also, look what I just found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupooomYEzU
Ouch.
280zx, your a fuckwit
thats all
He mentioned that a heavy person wont fit comfotably in this car. Well my dads freind has a 2006 Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster and I fit perfectly fine in the drivers seat and when he let me drive it I felt comfortable, yeah it wasn’t as comfortable as my moms chrysler pacifica, but it was ok.
Just parked behind one at the supermarket 30 mins ago.Same colour but YELLOW interior!!! What the!!
Anyway Alborz are the clutches heavy in them, cause when the guy left he was riding it like it was.
GO DAD GO number plates,and I think his wife has one too as her number plates are GO MUM GO !!
jeeeze, how big are plates in WA lisa?
and who the hell has two lambogihini murcielagos!
I think 7 letters is it,had the euro type plates on it.
Plenty people here have money at the moment,mining boom . Next time I see him I will ask . Have seen him in it 3 times now so at lest he drives it. Saw the wife on mothers day in hers. Both are black!!
i think an australia top gear would be sweat alsome write up , and GO HOLDEN
Clearly your name supports your car choice. But 5 points for being a bogan that watches TOP GEAR……..I think!
I would like to say that the Murcielago is the best Lamborghini of them all, but there is no way tell whether Lamborghini are going to make anything else like it again, seeing as they only make fast and loud cars, like the Diablo or the Countach, but Lamborghini have made a monster with the Murcielago. Enjoy it while you can.
P.S That’s the LP640 not the normal coupe.
Why is there tape in the interior?
“however the centre roof compartment gave way as we drove the car, but nothing a bit of sticky tape wouldn’t fix.”
Oh that’s not good! LOL
I’ll have to say that I don’t know what I would say if a 700k car something go wrong with it and I had to tape it back. Althought I know that I would say that the Lambo is truely a car that you don’t see very often and I think that this is why everyone stops to look at it. or rather passionatly admire it.
Alborz, how did u find ur job? does the murcielago get a lot of attention?