Uh. . . hard to understand what is happening in this video beyond the obvious. . . there are a bunch of guys beating the snot out of a Lamborghini Gallardo.
According to Jalopnik.com, and GTSpirit.com, the owner of the Lamborghini is from Qingdao, China and was upset at the reliability of the Gallardo and the service he received from Lamborghini in China. He bought the car 6 months ago for the equivalent of $600K-700K (USD.) Apparently it stopped running and the local Lamborghini service center had a difficult time diagnosing the problem.
Reliability should not be high on the list of wants for Lamborghini owners. Same goes for Ferrari and any other supercar you can name. We'd love to feel some empathy for the owner. Maybe if he could donate $700K to us we could better understand his pain. In the mean time, we recommend he try China's Geely luxury brand called "Emgrand," example below.
From our friends at WreckedExotics.com comes this picture of what was a Lamborghini Murcielago that was crashed into a tree. Rescuers cut off the roof to extract the driver.
From Edmunds.com (our favorite site for real world auto pricing), here's the scope on the awesome Porsche 918 Hybrid! Edmunds says it upstaged Lamborghini, Bugatti and Bentley at the premier automotive show in the world. And it may possibly be the fastest production car around Germany's famed racetrack, theNürburgring—assuming it gets produced. We hope so.
Almost Everything Autobody celebrates Maserati's win in the FIA GT1 World Championship. GT racing is, in our humble opinion, the greatest racing in the world because it features cars that can actually be purchased and driven on real roads. Previously Maserati has won 5 consecutive FIA GT Manufacturers Cups from 2005-2009 with their dominating MC12. In 2005 Maserati beat 2nd place Ferrari by nearly 2x in the points standing! And now they have won the inaugural FIA GT1 World Championship, beating Aston Martin (another favorite), Corvette, Ford GT (okay, they are all favorites), Lamborghini & Nissan GT-R.
Maserati is near and dear to the hearts of the crew here at Almost Everything Autobody for 3 reasons.
The first, of course, is that Maserati has produced some of the most beautiful and fastest works of art in the history of man (we'll excuse them for everything that happened in the 1980s & 1990s.)
Second, since 2008 it has been a dream and is actually written into the employee manual & the business plan that Almost Everything Autobody will procure a Maserati Quattroporte to use as a customer courtesy shuttle. It was supposed to happen in Dec. 2010 but the past couple of years have been economically tough for everyone in the world as well as us here at Almost Everything so the plan has been pushed back. 2011 looks to be a good year for business and we are hopeful.
Third, Frank Barnard, Almost Everything Autobody's President, bought a Maserati-engined 1973 Citroën SM as his second car. Citroën is the French auto manufacturer that owned Maserati in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The SM was Citroën's flagship as well as a platform for the Maserati Merak.
Citroën SM
Congratulations to Maserati, the Vitaphone Racing Team and drivers Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini for their fantastic achievement. You are all welcome to stop by the shop anytime!
From our dear friends at StreetFire.net and Top Gear, here's a short (1 hour) drive through Romania in 3 unbelievable convertables. Not to be missed. . .
