$400,495 - $500,645
Long, low, and generally massive, the Aventador is the flagship coupe (or roadster) in the Lamborghini stable. Only one powertrain exists: a 6.5-liter, 691-hp V-12 mated to a seven-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive. The Aventador is brutally powerful and obscenely flamboyant, but it’s also surprisingly agile for its size, making it one of the most drivable Lamborghinis ever produced. However, simply because it’s drivable doesn’t make it easy to drive—and therein lies its appeal.
The bull named Aventador, all 1118 pounds of him, put up a good fight in Zaragoza back on October 15, 1993. Matador Emilio Muñoz may have even broken a sweat because after he killed the animal—ideally done with an espada thrust down between the shoulder blades to sever the aorta—Muñoz was awarded one of the ears as a trophy. And people say hockey is a blood sport. But, alas, nobody has built a carbon-fiber supercar called the Gretzky.
Our 34-hour tryst with a $412,015 Lamborghini Aventador began at its factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese, proceeded to a test track near Milan where the critical acceleration and braking numbers proved to be 3.0 seconds and 144 feet, and ended with a series of redline rips through some deep tunnels in the Apennines near the Mediterranean coast. Spoiler alert: This review will be largely positive.
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