Have a successful friend who is in the enviable position of being able to purchase about $170-180K worth of car in the next few months. His short list is a 2012/2013 Ferrari 458 Italia, or a 15 Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4. Based on what you’ve seen in the game, which would you choose and why? I know it’s personal preference, etc, but I’m trying to see what the more motorsport-oriented folks in the world think of the choices and the reasons for making them. This will not be a track car, he has a modified GT3 for that purpose.
I have my preference, and I’ve shared it with him, but I’ll withhold that here to avoid influencing the discussion.
Huracan. Ferrari is notoriously unreliable. Huracan would be easier to live with too. Nicer interior, not as flash which imo is a good thing. AWD would help in poor conditions like rain. Its quicker than a 458 by far. Better everything with the Huracan honestly.
If I were forced to choose between those two cars, that’s essentially how my reasoning would go. Though neither are really cars I’d be interested in owning or driving.
Yeah, I don’t really think a bunch of strangers on a forum is a way to decide where to put your house worth of money either, and I don’t think he’ll give two hoots what we say on here, just thought I would pose the question for kicks.
I’m not sure how the price compares, but since it’s not going to be a track car, I think he would be better off with an F12 Berlinetta. Because it’s considered a GT car, I’m guessing it would be more comfortable than either the Huracan or the 458. According to Clarkson, it’s also one of the few cars The Stig said he would buy. Plus, IMHO, it’s by far the prettiest car of the 3. I have no idea on the reliability though.
I’m gonna go against everyone else and choose the 458. Personally I think the Huracan looks to bland and tame for a Lamborghini, but as someone else said I’d choose the McLaren MP4-12C over both cars.
for that price range I’d go with a McLaren 570s Fun track car. or even look into the Mercedes AMG GT S (will be cheaper)
Huracan over the 458 however I have driven both and the 458 is a comfortable car and I would consider DDing it. Mp4-12c is long in the tooth now and rougher than both the Ferrari and Lambo
If anyone is wondering how I’ve driven these supercars? I worked at a high end dealership for a year doing creative direction and took all sorts of cars out for marketing/advertising purposes including a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport, Koenigsegg Agera R, 918 Spyder, Carrera GT, 911 GT1 street.
Another car your friend might want to look into is an R8. Fun as hell, fast and built on same platform as the Huracan for the most part (some slight changes to the chassis) and pretty fast in it’s own right.
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle L88 454 numbers matching
Plus about 40-80k left over depending on car condition and documentation.
510 lb ft of torque
460ish horsepower
Cheap insurance
Abundant and easy to find parts
Well supported aftermarket
Will turn as many or more heads where I live than any Ferrari or lambo
Those cars are for posters on teenagers walls. And as far as living with them every day I’d have an old American V8 hands down.
Maybe he can spend 170k on the car but can he afford continual insurance, outrageous service fees, impossible to find parts? the list goes on.
Google how much it costs to get an oil change on a Lamborghini at least before you decide to buy one based off video game performance.
Porsche charges over $200 to change the oil in a standard Porsche Boxster. Plus their transmissions are non serviceable meaning if one part goes wrong you are buying a 7-12,000 dollar transmission to replace it. They don’t even make small parts like the shift forks, clutch packs, friction discs separately. So if a $20 part fails you are buying an entire transmission to repair it.
Just some insight from the other side of owning a “unique” car. IRL I own a 1980 fiat spider and a 1971 Oldsmobile cutlass. One is Italian and the other is American. I can drive up the street and buy half the parts on my cutlass over the counter at the parts store. My fiat on the other hand only has one parts supplier that I can find in the US and all his parts are rebuilt or NOS. (New old stock) he ships everything to me from Ohio and usually has a wait list. I waited two months to find the right intake manifold for it.
I don’t believe there is such a thing as a super car you can live with every day.
Ferraris are Ferraris. Lamborghinis are basically jazzed up Audis. I’d take the Ferrari, they have “it”.
If it were actually me though, I’d get a proper car. E-Type Jag would be close to the top of my list. Nothing suggests class, style and taste quite like an E-Type.
I usually disagree with this statement, because the Aventador is unique, but with the launch of the Urus it’s become obvious where Lamborghini is headed.
The truth is that AWD has never been part of Lamborghini’s heritage. They did an AWD Diablo and that was it. Save for the VT, all Diablos were RWD. Then come 2001 and Lamborghini’s first new model under Audi is the Murciélago, which has never been available in RWD. Audi does not make RWD, they only did the LMPs that way because they had to. The RWD cars, starting with the Gallardo LP550/2, are just the “entry-level” cars now. With the current generation, the R8 and the Huracán have been brought closer together, to the extent that Audi released their own RWD R8 helped by the fact Lambo had an RWD Huracán. If it wasn’t enough, the Urus is not only a dressed up Audi Q7 but also doesn’t even have a Lamborghini engine.
So yeah, Lamborghini is just a German Ferrari now. They should never have shared the V10 with Audi, but here we are with the Huracán and the R8 being very similar.
