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Video: Delivery Of the $4.1 Million Lamborghini Veneno, Cool Or Crap?


Video: Delivery Of the $4.1 Million Lamborghini Veneno, Cool Or Crap?

If you’ve somehow managed to avoid all of the press over the first of the two US-bound Lamborghini Venenos to hit American soil, thank you for allowing me to be the one to break the news to you: Out of only four Venenos to EVER be produced, and out of three that will ever be sold to the public, two are coming to the United States and the first one landed in Florida last week, where the delivery and first drive were recorded by the DuPont Registry.

So what the heck is a Veneno? It’s 0-62 MPH in 2.8 seconds, 220 MPH top speed, and 750 horsepower of V12 engine and Italian styling that’s so off the wall, Batman would be embarrassed to be seen driving it for fear of being called tacky. It also set back the lucky new owner, Kris Singh, roughly $4,106,000. Yes, Four million, one hundred and six thousand dollars. That’s a mere $4.1 million more than I paid for my last two daily drivers combined, but then again I have always prided myself on being a bit of a bargain hunter.

By all accounts Kris Singh has been stated as being a cool guy, although from the video he’s “rich guy cool”, meaning that while he’ll redline his small fortune of a vehicle within minutes of taking ownership of it and make comments like, “I will not track this car heavily (Accent on the heavily) and will drive it on the road”, he then finishes that thought with, “…I prefer to track the V10 Lamborghinis” (Oh don’t we all Kris, don’t we all?) before proceeding to take the car out for a nice steak dinner, parking the car out front for us plebeians to gaze upon its wonder and take selfies next to it.

Alright, now that my jealousy has all been aired out and is stinking up the room, it’s time get some opinions from you BangShifters on the video below.

Given that this is and may forever be the rarest Lamborghini supercar to ever be produced, what do you think of:
A) The car itself
B) Kris Singh for being ballsy enough to plan on driving it on the streets of Florida and to “as many events as possible”
C) The sight of a $4.1 million car being brought in on the back of a tow truck and driven off of said truck using a set of 2x4s, which is typically the entrance of choice for that $500 third-gen Camaro that you scored off of Craigslist

Personally, while the car offends both my adult sense of good taste and my wallet, the seven year old inside of me gets it: This isn’t a car for normal adults, it’s a real-life cartoon car, complete with all of the loony specs that a cartoon car would have.

In a similar vein, while I’m insanely jealous of Singh’s ability to not only afford the car but also his having been selected by Lamborghini to be allowed to buy it, I think his intentions are good in wanting to drive it as much as possible so that the general public can see and experience a Veneno in person, but it’d be naive to think that he’s not also doing so in order to show it off a little. (Admit it though: Wouldn’t you want to do the same?)

But hey, I’m just typing out my thoughts, let’s hear yours.

CLICK BELOW TO WATCH SINGH TAKE DELIVERY OF THE $4.1 MILLION LAMBORGHINI VENENO


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26 thoughts on “Video: Delivery Of the $4.1 Million Lamborghini Veneno, Cool Or Crap?

  1. Beagle

    the Countach was so over the top gaudy when it came out, this doesn’t surprise me… unless you consider it is from a Tractor company I guess.

    Cool? Sure. Why not. Does UHaul make a trailer hit for it? It’d be totalled from road damage just getting to my house I think, so I probably won’t try to buy one.

    I can’t help but think about the Roadkill where the rat death bucket had all the honeys attention and the Lambo was an eight year old boy magnet.

  2. vtjunk

    I did NOT have posters of European super cars on my walls as a kid. I had a pile of tattered HOTROD and CarCrafts though, and I turned out alright.

  3. Dutch

    I’d sooner spend that kind of money on a GT40 mkIV. They ain’t making those anymore, and it’s not so bizarre-looking.

  4. GuitarSlinger

    Its a $4.1 million dollar play thing … for the More Money than Brains [ or driving ability ] set .. that’ll never see the light of day outside a very few well publicized events or two [ must draw attention to ones self after spending all that money ]..that the new Nissan GT-R can kick its over priced ____ on the road and track .. and in reality is nothing more than a synthesized cynical ‘ Special Edition ‘ …. to separate a couple of ‘ fools ‘ from their money … that has ….

    No business what so ever on the pages of BangShift !!!!!!!

    Just thinking about how many customs from the likes of Steve Moal $4.1 million would buy puts this travesty into perspective . Not to mention … if you must over spend … at least buy a REAL supercar … from the likes of Pagani and Koenigsegg … basta ! 😉

  5. Scott Liggett

    For $4 million, it had better be faster than Andy Green and Thrust SSC.

    It’s a lot of money to pay in order to get that prime spot in front of the hot night club in Miami. By looking at the bespeckled dork who bought it, he needs all the help he can get in the date department.

  6. joebogey

    Total waste, I didn’t have the Lamborghini posters either. I had the Hot Rod Swimsuit Issue posters around my room. I think I’d rather spend that kind of money on a Challenger SRT-8, Mustang SCJ, COPO Camaro ands still have about $3.9 mil left over.

  7. chip

    At least he seems like a decent cat, a real douche would have had it delivered to his warehouse in secret and not let anyone near it, just because he can. Hell, there were people on the street walking all around it and he didn’t seem to care at all. And he truly seems to be stoked to have the car as a car, not just another rich asshole bauble. Can’t be all bad.

    That said, not really my style, too Batmobile/Blade Runner. Give me a 1970 Ferrari Daytona in Coupe and Spyder for that kinda dough.

    Plus, I’m glad to see this on here, and I’m as hardcore Missouri musclecar dirtbag as it gets. Been spending time on Jalopnik and DRIVE and the Smoking Tire lately, much better top down attitude over here. Brian and Chad, congrats on all you’re doing, and F anyone who wants to tell you what to do with the place.

  8. Brian Lohnes

    I think I might get too much pleasure out of handing Nutting a hand grenade with the pin pulled out once a week. 🙂

    The car is completely bat-shit crazy. I’d love to drive it but if I had that dough to spend, I’d be scoring other stuff first. If I had Warren Buffet money I’d have bought two of them so I could jump the first one just to make Lamborghini cry.

    1. Whelk

      If you had that kind of money then you would have already scored the other stuff. This is what you when you’re to out cool the cool you already have. If I had that kind of scratch, this would be my daily.

  9. 75Duster

    He could have better spent that 4.1 million at Barrett Jackson.
    Does driving it to special events only with it mean street racing Justin Bieber?

  10. greg72

    He’s definitely a car guy – he loves Lamborghini. Really no different that the folks who love Mopars or Chevys. Sure the entry point is higher but passion for cars and /or a car make is the same.

    If you don’t like it don’t look.

  11. Foxxy

    to this guy is just about the money. you can see he is not a gear head. all he talks about is it’s worth

  12. scott smith

    All these “super cars” handle like shit in the real world. If he’s a “car guy” why doesn’t he own an F1 team or Top Fuel Racing team? I bet he couldn’t change the tires on this machine. I know the owners manual and warranty book has been read thoroughly.

  13. Bobby J

    You’re all wrong. He’s a patron, and you want and need patrons. If he has that kind of dough what would you have him do with it?

  14. Alan C

    (A) Car is cool; we’d all complain if we had to drive around in identical boxes
    (B) Owner is cool; if you’ve got the $$ better to enjoy it than be a miserly grouch

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