Lamborghini Aventador breaks in half

http://youtu.be/25VO5jE9DIA

Demonstrating the momentum dispersion (I have no idea what it's actually called) safety feature it shares with the Pagani Huayra. Weird right?

Crazy how clean the split is.

http://youtu.be/MD47-z0skaQ?t=33m29s

Afore mentioned safety feature.

They were so certain the owner was likely to wrap it around a pole they designed it to not wrap around poles, lol.

Though I suppose with something as unyeilding as CF, its the only way to solve the problem.

Better image of the cabin.

Gives a new meaning to the term "half cut"...

It's mind-boggling the likelihood that ownership of a real supercar nearly guarantees an inability to actually have any ability as a driver.

In reply to motomoron:

I think you have the correlation wrong there. Its not that they are rich, its that there aren't many rich people, and as a percentage across all socioeconomic backgrounds, there aren't many good drivers. Multiply the two and you get a very, very, very small number of people who can both afford and correctly operate a supercar, relative to those who can merely afford one.

I would say it worked rather well in protecting the occupants. No change of drivetrain intrustion into the cockpit when it breaks away and slides down the street on it's own

Kenny_McCormic wrote: In reply to motomoron: I think you have the correlation wrong there. Its not that they are rich, its that there aren't many rich people, and as a percentage across all socioeconomic backgrounds, there aren't many good drivers. Multiply the two and you get a very, very, very small number of people who can both afford and correctly operate a supercar, relative to those who can merely afford one.

Well put.

In reply to Kenny_McCormic:

Then add in the fact that most of us could take something low-powered like a B-spec car and push it to the limits consistently. Now add several hundred HP onto that and it's a whole new ballgame.

Sure, we would probably have a better chance of learning how to drive a monster like this at the limit...and actually have the desire to learn. But I know for a fact I do a much better job driving a slow car fast, than a fast one.

From the video it looks like the driver of the Lambo was going a bit fast down the street, however I have no idea what the posted speed limit was. The peons car (camery, corolla, stanza, whatever it was) turned in front of the lambo who veered to miss him.

It's good that the safety cell worked as it was supposed to. When that swedish guy wrapped that Enzo around a telephone pole near LA you saw basically the same thing. Looks a bit more horrific than it actually is but you can thank racing for the idea to separate the motor from the car in a crash (yay physics).

FWIW I agree with Kenny_McCormic on those points too.

The video in question without the dbag commentary and branding all over the damn screen.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: In reply to motomoron: I think you have the correlation wrong there. Its not that they are rich, its that there aren't many rich people, and as a percentage across all socioeconomic backgrounds, there aren't many good drivers. Multiply the two and you get a very, very, very small number of people who can both afford and correctly operate a supercar, relative to those who can merely afford one.

All that, and people who are good drivers probably would not have a supercar. Supercars aren't really that super performance-wise, in the grand scheme of things. You can go to any test and tune night at the dragstrip and see cars that accelerate harder. You can go to any autocross and see cars that corner harder.

Timex vs. Rolex thing, here.

Heck, there was a guy on one of the forums who was all too happy to post charts and graphs detailing how his FB RX-7 could out-everything an F40, except IIRC his top speed was only 185 or so MPH due to gearing. Mind you, on a purely ownership level I'd still rather have the F40...

The real question here is: Will that motor fit in an locost or exocet? If not can it be made to?

The0retical wrote: The real question here is: Will that motor fit in an locost or exocet? If not can it be made to?

First we should define "fit." I know everyone who went to the Mitty last year saw a Lambo motor "in" a Ford Roadster. The car was beautiful in an Adams Family sort of way. The motor, hugely polished and chromed, was stuck out on the extended front end like an old front engined dragster. But it certainly didn't seem to fit the car in the traditional sense.

I have a picture of that car somewhere. But I can't seem to find it. If someone else still has one, please attach it to this thread. It is truly quite a ride!

The0retical wrote: The real question here is: Will that motor fit in an locost or exocet? If not can it be made to?

The trans is broken, without the trans the engine is kinda useless.

Datsun1500 wrote:

motomoron wrote: It's mind-boggling the likelihood that ownership of a real supercar nearly guarantees an inability to actually have any ability as a driver.

The ability to avoid a car turning in front of your car with about a foot to spare depends on how much money you have? So if I turn in front of a Kia, I'll be fine? That guy will be able to avoid me?

Looking at the accident.. how many people would have really been able to avoid it? I could see an SUV rolling from that hit and the resulting spin. I would rather have the car split in two and allow me to get out safely.

the sad part is.. the car that caused the accident probably only had a few thousand dollars in damage done to it and was probably able to drive away on it's own

Knurled wrote:

The0retical wrote: The real question here is: Will that motor fit in an locost or exocet? If not can it be made to?

The trans is broken, without the trans the engine is kinda useless.

This is not the kind of defeatist attitude we need to be seeing here on the forums. Clean it up.

sobe_death wrote:

Knurled wrote:

The0retical wrote: The real question here is: Will that motor fit in an locost or exocet? If not can it be made to?

The trans is broken, without the trans the engine is kinda useless.

This is not the kind of defeatist attitude we need to be seeing here on the forums. Clean it up.

But it's the trans that makes it special. Isn't it just two Jetta 2.5l engines joined at the crank?

I never get why people get low slung sports cars in cities like that, it must hurt, those roads kind of suck. This one is in Brooklyn, NY btw.

I'm sure some people here could adapt the engine to a bug transaxle with a hacksaw and a couple files.

Knurled wrote:

sobe_death wrote:

Knurled wrote:

The0retical wrote: The real question here is: Will that motor fit in an locost or exocet? If not can it be made to?

The trans is broken, without the trans the engine is kinda useless.

This is not the kind of defeatist attitude we need to be seeing here on the forums. Clean it up.

But it's the trans that makes it special. Isn't it just two Jetta 2.5l engines joined at the crank?

Brand-new, Lambo-designed V-12. I don't

Rupert wrote: First we should define "fit." I know everyone who went to the Mitty last year saw a Lambo motor "in" a Ford Roadster. The car was beautiful in an Adams Family sort of way. The motor, hugely polished and chromed, was stuck out on the extended front end like an old front engined dragster. But it certainly didn't seem to fit the car in the traditional sense. I have a picture of that car somewhere. But I can't seem to find it. If someone else still has one, please attach it to this thread. It is truly quite a ride!

The Lambo powered T-bucket belongs to Fran Olson of Fox Engineering. Here's some pictures I took of it:

Datsun1500 wrote:

mad_machine wrote:

Datsun1500 wrote:

motomoron wrote: It's mind-boggling the likelihood that ownership of a real supercar nearly guarantees an inability to actually have any ability as a driver.

The ability to avoid a car turning in front of your car with about a foot to spare depends on how much money you have? So if I turn in front of a Kia, I'll be fine? That guy will be able to avoid me?

Looking at the accident.. how many people would have really been able to avoid it?

According to motomoron the only reason he couldn't avoid it is because he could afford a nice car.

I'm with you on this one. It looks like a moron turned in front of him, he hit the brakes and tried to avoid the accident. He may have been going faster than the limit, but if everyone who had broken a speed limit was banned from posting on this site I bet the daily count would be around 0 posts.