Comments on: Lamborghini's $3.9 million Veneno

By: CastanhasDoPara

CastanhasDoPara — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:46:00 +0000

Such as say the Essence. Yeah, I could get down with that. But typically the rest of the line-up is as boring as this thing is hideous.

By: Blaven

Blaven — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:05:00 +0000

Careful walking around the front bumper or you might slice open your ankle. Is it just me or would this car fit nicely into Death Race 2000?

By: Albie Farinas

Albie Farinas — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:14:00 +0000

The beautiful thing about this automobile is that it comes with a passenger side bag dispenser… So if you ever have to hitch a ride with one of your narcissistic, garish friends, you can slip a bag over your head and ride anonymously….

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:26:00 +0000

Q: Speed Bumps?
A: No Signore.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:22:00 +0000

Presenting … the Kia Atta

By: Víctor Jiménez Merino

Víctor Jiménez Merino — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:34:00 +0000

I am the only one who has read “…but I’m going to keep my eyes out at CarlMarx”?

By: newe1344

newe1344 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:11:00 +0000

pre-ordered…

because the rich walked away with so much of our money…

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:12:00 +0000

Unless you end up in a medieval city and it’s spiderweb ‘roads’.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:10:00 +0000

the Pangani reminds me of some tripped out katydid

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:08:00 +0000

I don’t find it ugly, but it sure does seem like something made for a Nazgûl to drive when it gets sucked into TRON

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:06:00 +0000

Does it have the proper amount of suction?

By: Eli Fleming

Eli Fleming — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:14:00 +0000

Looks pretty bat-ugly to me

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:45:00 +0000

Something (tangentially) related that kind of blew my mind when I heard it: a set of the bespoke Michelin tires for the Bugatti Veyron costs $42,000 and might last 10,000 miles if you baby them, and quite literally last only 15 minutes at the car’s top speed. I don't know if the Lambo's tires are equivalent, but it reminds me of the sheer maintenance costs of upper echelon consumption, like the multimillion-dollar mansions with tens of thousands of dollars' worth of monthly staff and cleaning costs. That said, I like the looks of this mechanical object more than the Pagani Huayra, with its weird mirrors-on-stalks and odd crouching lines. And if I had $100 million...I'd probably buy a really nice Honda. Never been much of a transportation as status person. (Clothes, now...I'd go nuts, but only because bespoke suits are fantastic for someone with a wobbly shape like mine.)

By: Flugfrei Jones

Flugfrei Jones — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:30:00 +0000

aerodynamic catastrophe? check. looks like a toy transformer? check. $10,000 led strips? check. incredibly irritating HID headlights? check. SIGN ME UP.

By: marilove

marilove — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:15:00 +0000

Can’t account for taste, I guess, because I think it’s one of the ugliest cars I’ve ever seen.

By: class_enemy

class_enemy — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:33:00 +0000

The cars I think are beautiful were actually built while I was still in diapers.

Ferrari 330P4, Cobra Daytona Coupe, Jaguar XKE, Lamborghini Miura.

The classic Coke bottle profile, back when it was called “streamlining” not “aerodynamics” and the cars were usually prettier than the boxes they came in.

By: Chris Hogan

Chris Hogan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:13:00 +0000

I’m with James May of Top Gear: Lambo make beautiful posters, shame about the cars.

By: Teirhan

Teirhan — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:58:00 +0000

I’m afraid that I must confess that IDGI, but I also see my opinion of the car is the minority opinion anyways. So maybe it doesn’t matter.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:46:00 +0000

Lamborghini! I barely touched ‘er ghini!

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:43:00 +0000

Well, we know the Boy Wonder wasn't one of them.

By: spejic

spejic — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:10:00 +0000

It kind of proves the point of gross wealth inequality when companies have to come up with more imaginative ways for the hyperrich to spend their money.

By: Larry Anderson

Larry Anderson — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Besides Batman, I wonder who the other two buyers are…

By: jerwin

jerwin — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:48:00 +0000

How does this differ from Bugatti’s practice of running off bespoke copies of its Veyrons? It’s just an Aventador wrapped in a fancy body.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:05:00 +0000

That’s one crazy-expensive Audi.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:02:00 +0000

Hell yes! If anything, we can draw conclusions about what this car “means,” without projecting our own biases and insecurities onto the topic. Cars are special that way.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:01:00 +0000

From the looks on women’s faces in the videos I’ve seen, that’s not necessarily something to brag about.

By: EH

EH — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:00:00 +0000

Yeah, why couldn’t they make it look better, like an Infiniti or something?

By: technogeekagain

technogeekagain — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:33:00 +0000

Designed to appeal to those who think The Dark Avenger was (a) the best version of Batman ever, and (b) a version of Batman at all. (I don’t actually dislike the character or the brutalist style, I just think calling the new character Batman was not good for either.)

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:33:00 +0000

There’s a Berlusconi joke in here somewhere…

By: mumnjap ashker

mumnjap ashker — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:30:00 +0000

To the future owner of this car: “Mine is still bigger than yours!”