Performance COTY
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Here’s how you know 2016 was one of the best, if not the best, years ever for performance cars. The Lamborghini finished fifth. Man alive – fifth!
But before you go surmising that this was because the LP580-2 is rear-drive when the Huracan was originally conceived as an all-paw monster, let me assure you, this was not the case. Nope, the Huracan LP580-2 simply lucked out by being born in the wrong year. The same year as Ferrari turned up to PCOTY, the same year as Porsche released a new 911 Turbo S and the same year that the mucho loco, and bargain-priced, Ford Focus RS came along.
The Lambo runs everything pretty hard in the numbers department, too, with lazy 11s recorded down the strip despite lacking all-wheel drive traction. Miraculous, then, that the Huracan simply grips up from a standing start and heads for the hills without bulk wheelspin being the result.
That excellence fades a little on the wet track we were blessed with, and it’s then that the Lambo was quickly voted the one most likely to try to kill you. But by Gallardo Balboni standards, the Huracan is vastly better mannered. However, it remains that the big, heavy engine, mid-mounted as it is, combined with a mid-corner chicken-out on your part will see it attempt to swap ends.
Oh, and where your $15,000 Kia now has a standard reverse camera, the mega-buck Lambo does not. Then again, neither does the Ferrari. Sheesh.
THE NUMBERS 0-100M: 3.55sec (5th) 0-400m: 11.25sec @ 209.46km/h (5th)
DYLAN CAMPBELL: =5th Fifth does not convey how much I love this car. A rear-drive Huracan is so right it’s not funny.
SCOTT NEWMAN: =4th Makes you work to extract its best, which is as it should be.
TIM ROBSON: 2nd Ooooh boy. What a rush! Wish it had more front end, though.
JOHN BOWE: 3rd Gorgeous engine, worth the money just for the sound it makes.
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