Joyriding Valet toasts Lamborghini Aventador

[Danny83]

http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/new...icle-1.2501660

[Lordofrolex]

omg thats crazy

[antbkny]

Ouch

[rr-nyc]

And this is why nobody trusts valets. When I was in college, I owned a valet company. I made it a policy that all exotics were parked by myself or the manager on duty and they belonged up front at no extra charge or upselling. The valets would always get it back in tips.


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[RHIII]

That's not good...

...glad it's not mine!!!!!


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[UNLVino]

That's a special kind of stupid right there

[T. Ferguson]

Not condoning the valet's behavior, but that's nuts that the Aventador is prone to catching fire if revved at a red light. Seriously?

[etp095]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

Not condoning the valet's behavior, but that's nuts that the Aventador is prone to catching fire if revved at a red light. Seriously?

Fantastic plastic, burns well.

[GB-man]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

Not condoning the valet's behavior, but that's nuts that the Aventador is prone to catching fire if revved at a red light. Seriously?

Exactly what I was thinking. Horrendous engineering. But then again Porsches and ferraris have been doing the same thing these past 5 years so I guess all exotics are made like crap these days

[Danny83]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

Not condoning the valet's behavior, but that's nuts that the Aventador is prone to catching fire if revved at a red light. Seriously?

Maybe they are built by the hoverboard guy

[mtrunner]

Originally Posted by Danny83

Maybe they are built by the hoverboard guy

No doubt but seriously you can't reeve up the engine without it blowing up and catching fire?

[dysondiver]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

Not condoning the valet's behavior, but that's nuts that the Aventador is prone to catching fire if revved at a red light. Seriously?

no , not prone to it ,,, they usually just do it once

[skprd13]

Like the guy that slide the car keys across the roof! Adding insult to stupidity!

[TheRolexKingofLV]

Vegas valets are the worst! But this may have topped Vegas

[Ferdelious]

I wonder if the valet company's insurance will cover this if it didn't really occur while performing his job duties.

[rr-nyc]

Originally Posted by Ferdelious

I wonder if the valet company's insurance will cover this if it didn't really occur while performing his job duties.

If the owner received a claim ticket for the car and the valet was working at the time he drove the car, the valet company is almost certainly on the hook. Most valets in Miami beach are curbside so they drive the cars on public streets in order to park the car in a garage or lot. That's where it may get a little fuzzy.

If the driver took the car beyond the regular or ordinary route (joy riding), he could be responsible


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[Tri-Tip]

Sort of cancels out with the guy who drove his through 3 feet of standing water in San Diego a few weeks back...that guy's car didn't burn.

[Hairdude1]

Wow

[pacific17]

Ouch.. Thats gotta hurt

[Rock]

I don't pretend to know anything about Lamborghinis but given that one would think that most of them would spend most of their life in traffic, it is hard to imagine that this is a normal occurrence.
Has to be a fault, defect, etc., surely.
Maybe it was driven hard immediately before it was turned over to the valet.

[greggsiam]

Originally Posted by Rock

I don't pretend to know anything about Lamborghinis but given that one would think that most of them would spend most of their life in traffic, it is hard to imagine that this is a normal occurrence.
Has to be a fault, defect, etc., surely.
Maybe it was driven hard immediately before it was turned over to the valet.

The design is ok for normal driving and typical habits. The problem I have seen is that these idiots keep revving them up, then letting up on the throttle. This makes for a really rich mixture (opening intake, dumping in fuel, then slamming it shut). The rich mixture combined with heat and spark from opening the throttle again and again eventually causes the rich mixture to catch fire.

The overlap on the cam profiles are for racing, very wide, not narrow like a street car, so it's easy to have the ignition system igniting excess fuel. Look at the backs of the typical race car on the track, they always have unburnt fuel flames. but on a track you are going fast and not sitting in a static place with the flames burning the panels.

[THC]

It was probably the same Valet guy from Ferris Bueller

[antbkny]

Originally Posted by THC

It was probably the same Valet guy from Ferris Bueller

[Rashid.bk]

Originally Posted by greggsiam

The design is ok for normal driving and typical habits. The problem I have seen is that these idiots keep revving them up, then letting up on the throttle. This makes for a really rich mixture (opening intake, dumping in fuel, then slamming it shut). The rich mixture combined with heat and spark from opening the throttle again and again eventually causes the rich mixture to catch fire.

The overlap on the cam profiles are for racing, very wide, not narrow like a street car, so it's easy to have the ignition system igniting excess fuel. Look at the backs of the typical race car on the track, they always have unburnt fuel flames. but on a track you are going fast and not sitting in a static place with the flames burning the panels.

This is the answer. Nothing wrong with the Aventador's design, it is a race car.
It's built to move. Idiots that sit static revving the motor are retards.

Here's a stock Aventador on a dyno run making music. Observe it's active aero go into operation, and watch as it shoots fire like the bat mobile. Not for nothing but this machine is what dreams are made of.
Drive the car, don't sit static like an "a$$clown" revving the engine of a race car and not expect disastrous results. This is not the first Aventador to go up in flames from exactly the same thing, an idiot revving the engine to redline in traffic.....excess fuel ignites...duh.

If you don't get goosebumps from listening to this car sing and shift gears....I don't know what to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_4gmZRBNo









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[Kingair]

Originally Posted by Rashid.bk

This is the answer. Nothing wrong with the Aventador's design, it is a race car.
It's built to move. Idiots that sit static revving the motor are retards.

Here's a stock Aventador on a dyno run making music. Observe it's active aero go into operation, and watch as it shoots fire like the bat mobile. Not for nothing but this machine is what dreams are made of.
Drive the car, don't sit static like an "a$$clown" revving the engine of a race car and not expect disastrous results. This is not the first Aventador to go up in flames from exactly the same thing, an idiot revving the engine to redline in traffic.....excess fuel ignites...duh.

If you don't get goosebumps from listening to this car sing and shift gears....I don't know what to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA_4gmZRBNo
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Belgian . . . not beer or chocolate this time

[Hamish]

Ouch