If you want to go for a nice drive on such a lovely day as this, you want to keep things as simple as possible.
No four-wheel drive quad-turbo torque vectoring nonsense. Just an atmospheric engine and rear-wheel drive. Think of a Mazda MX-5, or this.
And with 'this', I mean the Lamborghini Huracan Evo Spyder RWD. RWD stands for rear-wheel drive and the rest stands for...
'what kind of twisted machine is this'. Come to think of it, I think RWD stands for 'pretty twisted' as well, because since...
the Evo-update, the 5.2-litre V10 has thirty extra horsepower. That means it produces 610 horsepower in total, which is all...
sent to the back. Not only that. It hasn't only lost the propshaft towards the front, compared to the 'regular' one. With regular being inbetween...
the biggest quotation marks ever. It also doesn't have carbon ceramic brakes as standard. They are optional however.
Four-wheel steering however, isn't available at all. Just like the torque vectoring limited slip differential between the rear wheels.
Even the system which does millions of calculations every second to prevent you flipping over into a meadow, isn't on here.
And the result is... Well, I can't really say it becomes a better car because of it. I mean, this car really has traction problems.
If you even go near the throttle, the ESP-light turns on. Also, the turning circle is bigger and you really have to be careful when exiting...
a corner. So it's not a better car if we look at measureable things. However, funny enough, it feels much nicer to drive.
Much more predictable. I mean, the steering isn't like a Porsche, or a McLaren or a Ferrari. It varies too much to really feel what's...
going on underneath the feels. And it's nice to feel things if you're in a wide car like this. However, because the front wheels are only steering...
and the rear wheels are only driving the car, instead of doing a bit of both, the car seems to listen better.
You get the feeling you're driving a car instead of playing a game on the PlayStation.
That makes it much more fun to drive. Also, since the Evo-update, the chassis has completely cancelled out understeer.
So now the handling is absolutely amazing. You'll run out of courage before you run out of grip.
And that's good enough. Sure, a McLaren or a Porsche might be better, and I haven't even mentioned a Ferrari yet.
But it's good enough. There's no flex in the chassis, even the convertible is nice and rigid.
It's just a party piece. So let's compare it with the four-wheel drive version. It doesn't have a lot of things the regular Huracan does have,
but you aren't missing anything. Mostly, that's because everything is centered around the might 5.2-litre V10, which lies right behind you.
I'm driving in 'Modest'-mode now, but when I put it in Sport-mode, the gates of hell will open...
I'm not able to put it into words. It's goosebumps everywhere, tears in my eyes, it's spectacular, it's raw,
so much noise. And it's not only when you're around the rev limiter, because you won't be there too often. It's just too quick for that.
But in every rev range, it goes crazy. In lower revs, it sounds like a V8 with a bad temper. If you go further than that,
it slowly becomes two five-cylinder engines going to war, and if you take it even further than that...
it starts crying, rumbling, howling, everything. You either love this or you hate this. Fifty percent of the people will...
raise their thumbs, whilst the other fifty percent will raise another finger. If you know what I mean.
And with all of the power being sent to the back, it means it's easier to speed up an atmospheric engine than if it was turbocharged.
It will never conquer the rear wheels at 2.000 RPM. That makes it such a delight to drive. You're enjoying this car despite knowing there...
are better cars out there. This is such a spectacular car. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of drawbacks with this car.
There's no Ego-mode, which stiffens up the dampers and steering without coming with all kinds of loudness behind you.
I mean, I can think of plenty of occasions that you don't want to wake up the village with your V10.
The ergonomics aren't very good either. Indicators on the steering wheel? Not ideal. An infotainment system which can't be read when the sun is...
shining? Not ideal? Your head poking into the roof construction because the seating position is kind of weird.
If you want to get underneath the roof, you have to sit all the way forwards. I mean, I'm not tall, but I already have to fold my legs.
A McLaren is lighter, a Ferrari is sharper, that's all true. Just like the fact that a Tesla, which is about a third of the price, is quicker from 0-100.
But chances are that when you hear this, that you don't care about all that. I know I don't.
Just like I don't care it doesn't have all of those smart systems. That makes this car cheaper as well. Only €357.000, and that's with options selected.
Or, only €7465,11 per month for a total of 48 months. That's a pretty good deal if you ask me. Alright, joke time's over. I know there...
are better sports cars, better supercars, and even better convertibles. But better Lambo's?
I don't think so pal.