Jeremy & The Stig test the Lamborghini Murcielago | Top Gear

here it is and of course it's very dramatic it's also very large and it turns a great many heads as you've run it along plus it makes a lot of noise but if you actually look at it it's not that outlandish it was actually styled by a Belgian same chap who did the Audi a2 and there are no big spoilers sprouting out of it there are no rotating knives there aren't even any machine guns the vents only open when the engine gets really hot the rest of the time they're hidden away there's a giant oil cooling at the cheer on one side of the car but instead of fitting a fake on the other they haven't bothered there's no style for style sake here and look at the exhaust pipe it's the same width as the Channel Tunnel but there's only one not 17 like you get in most hyper cars you even get a device that raises the nose for going over speed humps this is all fine but what's the point of a Lamborghini that doesn't have space thrust is sticking out of the side of course you still get scissor doors and when you step inside you find the steering wheel isn't quite in front of where you're sitting but there is room for your head and he can see out and even see parking then when you're driving along normally it feels very civilized and obviously it's not a Honda Civic you can't turn left for example because the indicator store called hit your knee and it does eight miles to the gallon or four but that said you don't have to raise your voice to have a conversation it's got satellite navigation and it's got air conditioning it's unlike the air conditioning systems and Lambos of old isn't like being coughed on by a mouse it this is all very worrying do you see it's 8 years since the caption sensible zat Audi took over Lamborghini and now they seem to be taking away its soul the only reason we ever liked Lamborghinis is because they were silly taking that away is like taking away the sunshine from a summer holiday you're left with nothing except for one thing howdy have replaced the lunacy with something else they've increased the size of the b12 from 6.2 to 6.5 liters and multi delivers is simply staggerin 630 brake horsepower that's more than Clow Mercedes SL oh it's more than he'd ever the result is spectacular this is not a light carpet my god it's fast first so late let's find out 7,000 of course I think this like this is sort of meaningless they're hard to get your head round so what I've done is organized a demonstration what we have here is a Golf GTI and what we're going to do now is have a half mile drag race to show the difference between a fast car and a Murcielago okay now this has a Formula 1 star launch control you do is you hit the sport button which ELR go turn the traction control off and then floor the throttle when the revs hit 4,000 the clutch will bang in and will be off now you might imagine that this sort of power doesn't come cheap and there is some evidence to support that if you look at the options list a little bit of carbon fiber there on the center console 4000 pounds carbon brakes seven thousand seven hundred and eighty pounds if you want the brake calipers these things if you want those painting at six hundred pounds transparent engine cover you see that on the back four thousand pounds flappy paddle gearbox 6250 it being a flappy paddle hate to spend that but amazingly the actual car only costs 190,000 pounds that's about whole what you'd pay for a normal hyper car so it's quite well priced it's hugely powerful and it's surprisingly elegant but do much for one minute to be tricked into thinking that the king of a hypercars has become a supercar in the twisty stuff is still apart you take one Liberty with it and trust me you are a car for show-offs and not driving it's kind of halfway you see the thing is it's viewing a supercar and you go out there and you reach the limit you know the limit of grip and it will start to slide and you can hold that slide because you're on an airfield it doesn't matter this four-wheel drives you've got tons of grip tons and tons and then when you get to the limit it's off it's really dim-witted four-wheel drive system somehow and it just you cannot push it beyond the limit so you can't really drive it to the limit because anywhere near the limits the punishment then for just overdoing it by one percent is certain death absolutely um happily however we have a man on the team who laughs in the face of death some say that he sucks the moisture from ducks and that his crash helmet is modelled on britney spears his head all we know is he's called the Stig and he's off now show off or not this is still a fiercely quick car the question is can it not the Koenigsegg off the top of our lap board searing doesn't bite Stig in the face on the way so get okay so far the lovemaking was hesitant and tender he didn't hurt or frightened now she'd feared more romantic fiction drivel as he powers around Chicago keeping it very tidy which he has to do because you can't stick the tail out here he comes into hammerhead yes look at that is absolutely keeping you on the ragged edge but the most beautiful part of all was her smile right let's see what the what the Lambo can do now This Is It this is when it can unleash that fearsome firepower coming down into the tyres here that is quick even moving the camera two corners left okay Chuck sit in right on the limit of grip now belts up to Gambon turning in looking at keeping the tail across the line what do you think okay thought not forth not forth it came look at that ladies and gentlemen second four six place one 19.8 the same as the Carrera GT that's a hypercar you

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Length: 9min 49sec (589 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 17 2009