if you're rich enough to buy an aventador you're rich enough to walk away from that crash and get another one
that still made me wince though, beautiful car. Ruined by an idiot.
I remember seeing this on SH a couple months ago
Still amazing how it just gets sliced down the middle
Looks like it was somewhat designed to fail there if the crash was bad since the roll cage tore away cleanly.
the engine is rear mounted, if you crash a car like that you don't want the engine come crashing down on the passengers so they design the engine and cockpit to dislodge during a crash.
Well, at least it wasn't a Veneno. Crashing that would be horrible
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With it being limited production and all
[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45102120]Well, at least it wasn't a Veneno. Crashing that would be horrible[/QUOTE]
true, sounds weird but the aventador is actually one of the cheaper and more accessible lambos
I was thinking it was the only one you can still buy, but then I found the Huracan. What is the difference?
[QUOTE=Hoffa1337;45102114]the engine is rear mounted, if you crash a car like that you don't want the engine come crashing down on the passengers so they design the engine and cockpit to dislodge during a crash.[/QUOTE]
This isn't true. The engine is mid mounted, and no car manufacturer is going to design their car specifically so that half of it goes flying off into space during a collision. News companies reported that this was a designed safety feature but it was entirely speculation, probably due to this video and how cleanly it came apart.
Think about it, if a Lambo gets in a huge accident as 70mph and the car splits in half like it is supposedly meant to do, now you have two missiles flying at 70mph, one containing a human life, one containing a massive V12 engine. Lambo would be sued to hell and back if another person was killed because a damn V12 engine went careening over the side wall and into oncoming traffic on the freeway.
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[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;45102156]I was thinking it was the only one you can still buy, but then I found the Huracan. What is the difference?[/QUOTE]
Huracan is meant to replace the outgoing Gallardo
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Also this video was posted September of last year, not sure how it made its way back around these parts
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;45102174]This isn't true. The engine is mid mounted, and no car manufacturer is going to design their car specifically so that half of it goes flying off into space during a collision.[/quote]
Formula 1 would love to have a chat with you on that one.
[quote]Think about it, if a Lambo gets in a huge accident as 70mph and the car splits in half like it is supposedly meant to do, now you have two missiles flying at 70mph, one containing a human life, one containing a massive V12 engine. Lambo would be sued to hell and back if another person was killed because a damn V12 engine went careening over the side wall and into oncoming traffic on the freeway.[/quote]
Nah. Modern cars are designed to go to shit in the slightest of tap and it's not at all uncommon for major assemblies to go bouncing down the road in a major crash. Especially a rollover. A rogue wheel with half the suspension still attached may not be as heavy as an entire powertrain but it's still plenty heavy enough to kill someone in that scenario, and the suspension is intentionally weak to absorb energy. Yet you don't hear about htose lawsuits because they wouldn't go anywhere anyway.
[QUOTE=TestECull;45108455]Formula 1 would love to have a chat with you on that one.
Nah. Modern cars are designed to go to shit in the slightest of tap and it's not at all uncommon for major assemblies to go bouncing down the road in a major crash. Especially a rollover. A rogue wheel with half the suspension still attached may not be as heavy as an entire powertrain but it's still plenty heavy enough to kill someone in that scenario, and the suspension is intentionally weak to absorb energy. Yet you don't hear about htose lawsuits because they wouldn't go anywhere anyway.[/QUOTE]
I'll remember that next time I take my F1 car out for a spin??
The only correlation between F1 and the Lambo is that the cockpit is built as one piece of carbon fiber for added protection so in the off chance everything does come apart at least the cockpit wont disintegrate with the driver inside. Modern cars are designed to crumple, yes, but not come apart entirely, that's absurd. It is uncommon for major assemblies to go bounding down the road. If cars were meant to literally break apart in a crash like you say, then every single high speed accident would result in huge chunks of car flying all over the place. Does that sound like it makes sense? You are correct in saying that the suspension is heavy enough to kill someone, why would a company then design said suspension to fly off on purpose? The lawsuits don't go anywhere because the cars aren't designed to do that and if it does happen it is a freak accident. If a piece of suspension were designed to fly off during an accident and someone was hit by it, then that person died because the car did what it was designed to do. That's where the lawsuit comes in.
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This one only split because it just happened to come into contact with the wall perpendicularly just behind the carbon fiber cockpit compartment where it is weaker. If it had hit the wall 3 feet more forward or backward I doubt it would have split like it did.
honestly looks like the guy turning left is the cause of the crash. the lambo may have been driving too fast but if that video is full speed, the lambo was already way too close for that dickhead to even attempt making that left.
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