A day in a Lamborghini Murcielago
14 May, 2007
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Unlike the Pagani Zonda, the Murcielago tends to attract some negative energy (perhaps due to its size and its beautifully evil style), mostly from those who are more concerned about global warming than their own personal hygiene.
There is also the problem that perhaps every supercar driver has to deal with. Every single performance car on the road will want to race, regardless of the situation - there may be 20 police cars in the left lane, but the second car enthusiasts see the Murcielago, they have to know just how much faster is a $700,000 car?
Through out the day, the WRX/STi drivers of Sydney gave us a good show of trying their best to keep up with us. But alas a 2.5/2.0 Litre Turbo against a finely tuned 6.5L V12? The odds are slightly in our favour.
There was also an odd problem (that I am sure you’d get used to after a while) that the cabin has some rather odd reflective properties. When one tries to do a shoulder check before a merge, you instantly feel as though your about to have an accident.
Not only is there no point in shoulder-checking due to lack of visibility, but everytime you try, the reflective properties of the cabin give you a scare as the car next to you looks as though its about to smash into your passenger door. Nevertheless, the sideview mirrors of the Lamborghini are indeed a work of art, as Anthony said on the day, you can almost take them, put them in your living room and admire them over dinner.
But who needs to shoulder-check in a Lamborghini anyway? Not only are the mirrors sufficient, but when the car behind sees a Lamborghini indicating, they nearly pull over in the fear that they might scratch it.
So what about the performance? Surely we didn’t take this car for the whole day and spent our time sipping Italian coffee at a trendy cafe admiring the mirrors! I won’t go too much into the performance and handling part of the Lambo, I’ll leave that for Anthony who is writing up the actual road test in the next few days.
We didn’t go to an Italian cafe, that would have been just too cliche, we decided however to see how the McDonalds demographic felt about a Lamborghini in the car park.
It doesn’t matter where you go, every young teenager that has enough testosterone to know what your driving will beg you to “spin her up“. Of course, being an All Wheel Drive, spinning her up would involve turning off the traction control, and doing a hard launch, not exactly a license friendly maneuver.
So to the specifications:
- Engine 6496 cc V12
- Power 471 kW (633 bhp) at 8000 rpm
- Torque 660 Nm (487 ft lbf) at 6000 rpm
- Top Speed 339 km/h (211 mph)
- 0-100 3.4 s
- 0-200 10.2 s
- 0-300 31.5 s
- Quarter mile ~ 11 seconds
Admittedly, the car doesn’t feel that fast, not because its not, but because of the way in which it delivers the power. In the lambo when your body tells you your going 60km/h, in reality its closer to 200km/h. At one stage we became so disorientated with this problem that we had to confirm our speed with other drivers on the highway.
I don’t think you can live with this car as an everyday car, it would be insane to imagine yourself leaving this work of art in a shopping centre car park on a thursday night. Not only can it potentially be damaged by brainless citizens, but also you have absolutely no where to put your shopping.
Sure the bonnet opens so you can store roughly 2 shopping bags, but who on earth wants to put a 2 litre bottle of milk and some bread inside a bonnet of a $700,000 car and hear it smash from side to side around every corner?
As for the interior, well, its not exactly a 7 Series BMW.
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May 14th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Great write-up. Can’t believe I didn’t get to see it, I practically live on that damn road down to Wollongong.
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May 14th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I will put up the gallery soon
lots and lots and lots more photos
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May 14th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
you are, quite truly, a lucky bastard alborz :P
great car, fantastic write-up.
THIS IS WHAT MOTORING IS ALL ABOUT!
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May 14th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Sooooo Alborz, how long have you had this “schoolgirl” feeling? Hmmmm?
Great article by the way.
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May 14th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Aw man,
This is my dream car, excellent write up, very funny.
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May 14th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
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 ??
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May 14th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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
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May 14th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Yep, it doesnt get better then this Lisa,
I think the next car I get will be a Hyundai! :|
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May 14th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
“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.
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May 14th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Sure the exhaust isnt big enough!
i would go 4 a 1994 323! hehe
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May 14th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
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
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May 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
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
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May 15th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
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.
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May 15th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
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?
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May 15th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
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 !
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May 16th, 2007 at 10:16 am
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…..
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May 17th, 2007 at 9:33 am
That is a beast.
Also, look what I just found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupooomYEzU
Ouch.
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May 21st, 2007 at 5:01 pm
280zx, your a fuckwit
thats all
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May 25th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
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.
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June 7th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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 !!
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June 7th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
jeeeze, how big are plates in WA lisa?
and who the hell has two lambogihini murcielagos!
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June 7th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
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!!
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June 12th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
i think an australia top gear would be sweat alsome write up , and GO HOLDEN
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June 12th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Clearly your name supports your car choice. But 5 points for being a bogan that watches TOP GEAR……..I think!
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September 1st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
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.
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February 26th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Why is there tape in the interior?
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February 26th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
“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
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August 6th, 2008 at 9:44 am
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.
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September 29th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Alborz, how did u find ur job? does the murcielago get a lot of attention?
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