we get a lot of questions and comments at cars.com but one of the questions we
get almost more than any other one is this one
dear cars.com should I buy a Lamborghini Huracan perform on tey or that Subaru
Legacy that I've been looking at or the other one here dear cars calm my husband
says we should really get a crossover SUV because we've got these three kids
but frankly I want a Lamborghini well we've come here to Roebling Road Raceway
in Savannah Georgia to answer a very important question yet a Lamborghini
Huracan so you might not be terribly familiar with what this is and that's to
be expected we don't have many of these on cars calm well this is the
entry-level Lamborghini the Huracan it was originally based on the Audi r8 but
it's obviously been changed significantly since then howdy actually
owns Lamborghini not many people really realize that the car itself is aluminum
and carbon fiber it's got a mid-mounted 5.2 liter v10
engine it's putting out 640 horsepower and it's enough to get the Huracan from
0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds with a top speed of 202 miles per hour
the Huracan prefer monty uses a lot of carbon fiber but it's carbon fibre like
you might not have seen before check out the pattern here it doesn't
use carbon fibre that's laid down in sheets and then formed into a mold
instead they kind of chop it up mix it with a resin and then use a special kind
of press so you get this pattern that doesn't look like any kind of carbon
fiber you've seen before and this material is used throughout the vehicle
inside now the pattern is unique it's almost like a tortoise shell so it kind
of looks dirty you kind of want to rub it and make sure that it sits clean but
it is this is just the way it looks and because of the uniqueness of this
pattern it means that no two carbon fiber pieces between any two
Lamborghinis are going to look exactly the same inside you've got a lot more of
that carbon fiber that we saw outside it's on all of the parts and pieces in
here including the flappy paddle shifters here you've got a novel
start/stop button and check this out you flip it up and that's what you'll push
to actually start the engine it's a automated manual dual clutch
transmission so it does have an automatic mode but you can also operate
it manually shift your paddles behind the steering wheel the switches and
controls might look familiar because a lot of them are out of the Audi parts
been which frankly means that they work pretty well but you've also got a Bank
of really unique switches here that have guards on them for operating things like
windows those also add to the whole element of sportiness into this interior
you've got the main gauges in front of you but you've also got some digital
gauges to the side here that pit they're in Italian pressure olio bacteria which
kind of adds the Homeless teak of the Lamborghini now the magic button and
here is this one on the steering wheel you see it says strata sport and course
Estrada's street sport this sport Corsa means race and what this does is this is
your mode selector button it changes all kinds of settings throughout the vehicle
to make what's already a crazy hyper car even more fast
it is just wicked it's not quiet but who cares
that noise is what you want to hear 5.2 liter mid-mounted v10 engine and it just
sings
in strata mode Street mode it's perfectly docile
it's almost astonishingly good ride now this track is obviously not your typical
pothole Detroit urban street but still it is really quite supple no when you
put it in race mode or sport mode it is going to firm up considerably you've got
20 inch wheels with Pirelli PZero Corsa tyres I mean those are those are track
tires they're meant to have the maximum amount of stick and they certainly do
yeah it's just too much fun the seats are actually remarkably comfortable even
for somebody my size I don't think I'd want to wear a helmet in here though as
the Headroom is low it's a sports car so you're not going to have a lot of
Headroom in here the windshield is also rather low - you've got a good view
forward but the view up you're gonna have to bend over a little bit or just
be shorter take a few vertebra out of your spine you'll fit even better it's
worth it definitely worth it so yeah it's pretty wicked just about in every
sense of the word it's gorgeous to look at it's fun to drive even a guy like my
size fits in the thing really without any kind of problem now the original
question we had was should I buy a crossover or a Lamborghini Huracan and
given that this thing costs two hundred and seventy four thousand dollars it's
really not the right question the question is should I buy a house or a
Lamborghini Huracan and the answer to that question is you should buy the
Lamborghini Huracan because you can sleep in the car
you can't race the house find out more about the Lamborghini Huracan on cars
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