Originally Posted by black penguin

Sorry but this really is a silly argument. Why do (some) GTR owners only care about how much faster they are than others? Do they think the owners of other more expensive cars were unaware of the GTR?

Perhaps the answer is they wanted different things from THEIR car than a GTR can deliver. These two cars cater to very different people. Every car makes engineering trade offs. These cars are each making different trade offs.

The Aventador does not exist for the same reasons as the GTR. If that is not obvious, you don't really get the point of a car like that.

The GTR only has one mission: be fast. And it will remove the driver from the equation if it has to. It has been designed to make fast attainable and easy for average drivers. By any measure it's an impressive car, but its been built for people who care more about numbers than experience. Not saying it lacks experience, just that if it has to choose, the designers choose numbers.

The Aventador is a totally different beast. It's a supercar, and that means more than just numbers, especially quarter mile numbers. Supercars have to have an otherworldly impression and experience. That alone is a huge part of their appeal. They are meant to be a big statement.

The big Lambos have traditionally been a handful and slightly intimidating, these cars always wanted to remind the driver they were playing with fire. This car is an experience and an object to covet. It's not just a blunt tool to get the job done. The tool itself is the point.

If that does not appeal to you, buy the GTR and love it for what it does.

Many people will buy a car for not only how fast it goes, but also for HOW it goes fast. My guess is its more fun to go slightly slower in a Lambo with that v12 howling in the back.

Going fast is the easy part.its physics. Creating a car that can transcend the numbers is the hard part.

I own a V12 Vantage. I also owned an R8 V10 at the same time. Both were awesome. The R8V10 was by far the faster car, but I preferred the more visceral drive of the V12 and sold the R8V10 for a Cayman R track car.

That little Cayman is the lowest hp car I had owned in a while (even my SUV has 510 hp), but it has a sublime chassis and it is magic on the track. Sometimes the way a car does something is more important than the numbers. At least for the people who actually buy them.