What is it?
The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ is the latest extra-hardcore version of the Italian outfit’s two-seater, V12, upper-level series-production supercar. Which, first and foremost, makes it a Lamborghini Aventador: a car which it’s impossible to drive along a UK motorway in any form without a procession of hot hatchbacks gathering in your wake, like pilot fish swimming behind a tiger shark. You can usually watch them ‘forming up’ in the rearview mirror before each paddles frantically past, only to subsequently slow down again for another pass.
Regrettably though, when you’re driving this new Aventador, that’s a pastime denied to you. The SVJ’s rear wing has a chunky central pillar not seen on other derivatives which, conspiring with the shape of the car’s new carbonfibre engine cover, can entirely conceal the outline of an rabidly driven VW Golf R, just about thirty yards off your bumper, in your review mirror. Thusly rear visibility in a supercar in which it was already pretty atrocious has become, in this its latest ‘ultimate’ version, even worse.
Would the safest thing for the Aventador SVJ’s driver therefore be to ensure you’re always the fastest-moving car on any given road, simply to avoid the risk of being approached from the rear by anything whatsoever? It’d be a bold excuse for a speeding ticket; you or I might think better of it. But, ‘for safety reasons’ or no, plenty of these cars will be driven exactly so, I reckon. At least, the ones that make it out of Knightsbridge and Monte Carlo might be.
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O.M.G
If ever a more pointless car had or has been created I've yet to see it.
You think the stardard
Wild oats?
Wildoat clearly doesn't know how to sew any. Suggest name change to Crochet Enthusiast.
wildoat wrote:
This car is not about points in the usual sense. It's about the enjoyment of driving it. Enjoying the noise and the feel of its v12. Enjoying the throttle response and the feeling of its steering. Loving the drama and character of its amazing looks, its sharp handling, cornering etc etc. If you don't get these things, then I guess you would call it pointless.
Soon to be seen in a hedge near you....
....which is where most of these things seem to end up.
Most don't end up in hedges,
fantastic looks
plus a decent engine .makes Ferrari look so boring i.m.h.o.