hi I'm Joe wiesenfelder with cars.com
we're in Georgia and a rolling road race way where I am positively giddy to be
testing the lamborghini aventador LP700 4 where aventador is the name of a
particularly courageous ferocious bowl from the bullfighting world and lp700 -
4:00 is an inkjet printer actually the 700 stands for 700 horsepower and the
four is for all wheel drive
but if you stumbled upon this video shopping for an inkjet printer know that
for the same amount of money you could have about 4,300 printers
that's right the car you see here as equipped is more than four hundred
thirty three thousand dollars
the exterior of this car is spectacular even if it weren't a car people would
stop and stare at it inspired as you might guess by things like fighter
aircraft
I would expect this card to have a very low radar signature but I wouldn't test
that with the local sheriff take a look at the wheels here we have 19 inch front
wheels with 16-inch carbon-ceramic rotors good for managing heat 6 piston
front calipers the rear rotors are 15 inches and four-piston calipers
now the doors they alone are special throw a door up young kids everywhere
will come flocking thinking that's pretty cool
in and of itself these giant scoops on the side are functional
they feed cooling air to the v12 engine this is a mid-engine design and at high
temperatures not necessarily high speeds vents open these panels raised up and
allow the air to flow through more efficiently for better cooling as is
usually the case with high-performance cars
there's also an automated motorized spoiler in the back that goes up to two
different positions based on speed to give you more downforce
even though a car that looks like this doesn't have to perform this one
performs 0 to 60 is less than three seconds
well less than three seconds having all-wheel-drive make sure all the power
gets to the ground
the 700 horsepower comes at a very high 80 250 rpm that's actually the red line
the torque rating is 509 pounds be
also pretty high up the range over 5,000 rpm
so even though it takes off like a shot throws you back in the seat
you still continue to gain acceleration as the tachometer needle clients now the
transmission in this car is a single clutch automated manual
it is not the more popular dual clutch is available now known for their quick
shifting and little bit more refinement as a result of this one bucks a little
bit more when it's shifting but it does shift quickly actually more than twice
as fast as the graveyard oh which has a similar version of this transmission
this one is the ISR for independent shifting rods
now you can adjust the way that it behaves by choosing different settings
there strata sport and corsa astronomy street sport means sport and corsa is
for the track each of these settings varies the sensitivity of the
accelerator the ship . in the transmission the behavior of the
all-wheel-drive system and it all starts by pushing this garden switch which
doesn't have to be guarded but it's cool
out on the racetrack aventador is a monster in the good wave it takes off
like a shot and the brakes are so good they give you the confidence to stand on
that gas all the time
now it's also a bit of a monster in ways i didn't expect the ship quality is
actually pretty rough
now in the strata street mode it's a little bit softer when you still get
some fucking in the course of mode a little bit harder but very quick you
feel the bank now this being a single clutch automated manual that's that's a
hallmark of that type now
lamborghini says they use it partly because it's lighter and it's smaller
but frankly automakers will always tell you what's good about something they use
and then two or three years later they say hey now we have dual clutch it's
better yay
a little bit sad that this card is an offer manual transmission but what's
great about it is it does have an automatic modes so you can let it do the
shipping for you if you want to do the shifting yourself you've got big paddles
here
fix to the column so you always know where they are that's good
now frankly when I see things like all wheel drive an engine design actually
think a car might be kind of came despite the specifications maybe
something like a 911 with all-wheel drive which in some cases can feel kind
of boring
not the case with this one out on the track there's a lot of work
I really had to manage this car it's easy to rotate it
the bronze extremely sensitive it's a kind of car you have to learn and
actually i think that's a pretty good thing you don't want to do everything
for you
yeah it's a lot of money i wouldn't spend my money on it but if I had the
money but I spend it on this as opposed to 4300 inkjet printers
absolutely
I
yeah