Lamborghini Performante Spyder Gets Totaled on First Drive
Poor Performante wreck proves money doesn’t buy skill, and apparently it doesn’t buy luck either.
If you hate to see the destruction of Italian exotica, you should look away now. For the rest of you sadists, feast your eyes on this mangled carcass of a Lamborghini Huracán Performante Spyder that was posted on Twitter by the West Yorkshire Police. This is truly a tale of woe and despair that is worthy of the year 2020. Let’s just tally up all the things that went wrong to create the images seen here.
First, the car in questions had been purchased just 20 minutes prior to the carnage you see here. So it was totaled on the very first drive. That is not entirely unheard of with these kinds of cars, except the driver didn’t crash. They were hit from behind when some sort of mechanical failure caused the car to stop on the highway. Hit hard enough, we might add, to force the Lamborghini to deploy its pop-op roll bars. Also, if you look really close, you can see that the rear wheel came off with such force that it carried debris with it, and rolled at least 100 feet further down the road than the car did.
So to recap, mere minutes after buying a brand new supercar, it breaks, gets plowed into by someone else, and now it is probably totaled. If there is anything good to take away from this entire situation, it was that thankfully nobody was seriously injured. Since the news first broke, BBC News has clarified that the driver who hit the Lamborghini had some minor head injuries, but we still have no information on what kind of mechanical failure set this entire kerfuffle into motion to begin with.
To our knowledge this is the first kind of serious mechanical failure to cause an accident for the Huracán Performante, but keep your ears to the ground over the next few weeks. We can be certain that Lamborghini is going to be looking in to this issue. It tends to look bad on a brand when it’s car’s blow up after just 20 minutes use. That’s pretty poor reliability, even by traditional Italian standards.
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