Gadgetory

a single word describes Aventador driving capable of any Road maneuver you can imagine and a number you can't him the Aventador is the top of the stack for Lamborghini at least in terms of production cars leaving out things like the veneno and some special models the overall formula of the car is pretty simple it's a two-seater with the engine mid rear a b12 carbon fiber tub of which you almost can't say too much the carbon fibre tub was only about 325 pounds it's incredibly stiff and everything else is anchored to it including aluminum subframes front and rear for suspension and engine mounting on top of all of that we have the roadster that means you've got a pair of removable carbon-fiber roof panels that also are going to earn you some non-removable stares of envy in public now the end of the course is out back in the backyard carbon fiber lid with these plexiglass clear louvers and underneath there is quite a work of art it's a v12 six and a half liters but after that the technology doesn't get to modern turbo no supercharger no direct injection no aside from being a v12 the core trait of this engine is that it's also over square that means it's cylinders are short and wide it's a trait of high revving engines they have a higher ratio of valve opening in the roof of the cylinder compared to the total volume of the cylinder in other words they Rev like hell and breathe well now what's interesting about Lamborghinis is the engine and transmission layup all-wheel drive of course in this car you've got the engine sitting with the transmission ahead of it the tail piece goes toward the passenger compartment and then power is transferred back through drive shafts to the rear end and of course forward to the front wheels the transmission is a single clutch automated manual with a numerous for independent shift rods to carry at seven gears the end result being those extremely fast shifts and Lamborghini says less weight due to having just one clutch pack some numbers 690 horsepower 510 foot-pounds of torque a car that weighs not that little actually almost 3,500 pounds in roadster form the Roadster has got 110 pounds on the coupe still it's not hurting anything 0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds oh and get to know that little door over there in the corner that's where the gas goes lots of it 10:16 is your rated mpg despite the fact this car has some mpg technologies like automatic start/stop which is exotically powered by capacitors not the usual lead-acid battery and even cylinder deactivation now when you're barely on the throttle it'll turn into an inline 6 and retire one bank and after 2 minutes it'll refire the other one so it'll wear evenly like you're gonna mosey that long in this car now inside the Aventador it's not technology like we're normally used to seen that style for example this is a basically last generation howdy head unit not a bad head unit but it's nothing cutting-edge in terms of connectivity or the way that it works and you recognize these controls down here from an Audi product we've been watching our videos for long all LCD gauge pack in front of me including a massive digital tachometer and then built in there just barely visible as a speedometer your 4 in Soleri gauges are around it then you've got some partner info gauges on the side and that brings us to these 3 drive controllers here in the center of the console strata is Street that's basic driving sports gonna tighten up the speed of shifts and how hard the RPMs are run up also make the accelerator mapping more aggressive open those exhaust valves or baffles and dial back some stability control go on more and you're in the full red-blooded Corsa or track mode manual only everything is that its sharpest the quickest shift or 50 milliseconds you've still got your wide open exhaust baffles and the stability control is dialed back to just the bare minimum to hang on to your car by the way if you want to hear more of that music from behind your seat check this out that little transom glass right there if I run this switch on the dash goes up and down so you can hear the whole mechanical noise of the valve train and the intake sucking I always feel a little silly giving you impressions of a supercar they're all amazing and this one makes almost everything else on the road feel like a moving van yeah I prefer to leave the breathless love letters to other LS the difference between strata sport and Corsa is like the difference between hitting a 10 20 or 50 million dollar lotto the center differential sends anything from a high of 30 to a low of 10 percent of total output power to the front wheels as you work your way toward more aggressive drive modes and while the steering ratio remains the same all the time the amount of assist drops off as you move to Corsa I did find the single clutch is our gearbox to sound the only occasional false note when you've got your foot in it it's fast and tight but around town it can bulk a shift once in a while and leave you and your passenger with your heads bobbing it did so seldom enough to be memorable however which I guess means seldom enough in no cases at a cutting edge tech machine in the cabin by our standards but that's not the point you buy it because you like it not for any rational reason and of course you'll need to like it a lot base price with destination and gas guzzler tax is nearly four hundred and fifty thousand dollars I definitely pop 7,500 for the transparent engine cover 4200 gets you upgraded Lamborghini audio and multifunction controls on the steering wheel are about 1500 more and we're just getting started that will sound absurd to most of us but remember what David E Davis told 60 minutes about Lamborghinis decades ago I firmly believe that everyone who is worth anything at all should only at 12-cylinder car before they die because there's nothing else like it it's just one of the great operatic experiences of all time it's a real noise and there's nothing else like it it'll take your breath away