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  1. Lamborghini To End Sales Boom In 2020 For Stability, Exclusivity; One Off Lambo cost 3.5 million euros

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    On 12/22/2019 at 7:46 AM, escobar said:

     

    In a video I recently watched of the crown prince of Abu Dhabi showing his car collection, he mentioned that he was in discussions with a few companies to build another one-off; if memory serves, he mentioned Lamborghini, Bugatti, McLaren who had all submitted competing proposals. It got me thinking about the direction of the higher end of the market and the long term desirability of such brands.

    Up until the mid 2000's it seemed that a one-of-one was truly a once in a life time chance to own a piece of history. Today, it seems as though it's a (well received) marketing gimmick to push product out the door at a much higher margin. Unless the car is a one-of-one for a celebrity, I can't see why anyone would pay a huge price down the road to take it off the original owner's hands?  For example, should Kris Singh ever decide to sell his "La Monza Lisa" Huayra, who's going to care that it's a one-of-one built for him over another well specc'd "regular" Huayra?  Winkelmann (at Lamborghini and now Bugatti) and Pagani seem to be the leaders in this marketing technique of endless 'special' cars.

    Long-term collectibility of these modern one-off's seem non existent (to me).  While I'm sure they will hold their values well above the regular "run of the mill" supercars, I'm unsure if they would be worth it at bargain prices like we had for the 80's/90's cars during the 2007-2010 period.

    Anyway, just a thought and hope others share theirs on the topic.  Unsure what I'm not seeing that others are.

    I agree with what you are saying. I doubt the one off cars will pull any more money then a non one off car once the market has enough supply. If a guy has a huge social media following and his car is whore'd all over there I don't want that car since it'll forever be "XXX's old car." Once you are in the type of price bracket that Bugatti, Pagani, etc. sell for you can spare the few extra dollars to get a new one and not have someone else's old toy. Plus it seems one of the major manufacturers has a new one off around the corner every year.

    If you buy Kris Singh's Pagani you will forever be in Kris Singh's old car and then a Pagani. If you buy a Pagani from some guy in the middle of no where that no one knows about you will never get that type of reaction. If only the two cars were available I would choose the non one off car for the same price then a car everyone knows about because its a "special edition." Just my opinion. There's an ass for every seat.

  8. Aventador SV-J Discussion and New Information

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    I noticed that too! Some "offical" documents state the name SVJ, but here they write S Jota or SJ which is the name for the Swedish railroad company here in Sweden :P Btw where does it say that the full areo kit is 55k?

     

    I guess the current sv owner's would be annoyed if it was an SV Jota. S Jota makes it a different car than the SV. Also helps to hold values along the lines.

     

    the 55k aero kit is the 20 aero kits posted above for the aventador s. nothing to do with the jota.

  11. Best home automation systems

    in Off Topic

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    Automation is a complete waste of time and money, I will never do it again, I wouldn’t have it for free.

     

    100% I am regretting every second of the 100k++ we've spent on our house. Technology advances way too fast to be putting permanent automation solutions into a residential home in my opinion.

  19. Creepy Cell Phone Occurrence

    in Off Topic

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    I’ve had something similar happen to me but the roles reversed its me the wife is calling and some other woman picks up and says she has the wrong number .... oddly enough I just happened to be about 3-4 minutes from home but I could see where it could cause some problems. I see her phone and an outgoing call that connects to my number but my phone doesn’t show a corresponding incoming call to me at all!

     

  20. The Performante encounter...

    in Archived Content

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    I had some very good news today, as you guys know I took someone’s allocation but my dealer still requested a spot under my name for an earlier production slot, 24 hours later Lamborghini approved it and offered me an earlier build :icon_super:

     

    Congrats! :eusa_dance: How far out is delivery?

     

    SV + Performante in a glass garage :monkeyleft:

  21. The Performante encounter...

    in Archived Content

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    Just want to put it out there, what’s the general consensus on the radio delete, would you have a car with it?

     

    Also does anyone know what the material will be in the centre console where all the buttons would be? Is it plastic or forged carbon as in the SV?

     

    The only car I've seen a radio delete on is VCR's white Superleggera. Car was alcantara and carbon nirvana.

     

    Resale is about the only thing that I think would greatly suffer. I would say the majority of the lamborghini buyer's would want the ability to have some music even if the quality isn't that great.

  25. Picked up a new winter beater

    in Off Topic

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    do you mean the G63 or the squared? or both?

    I also heard they are coming out with a new G wagon 4" wider etc in 2018.. is this a rumor?

     

    There is a redesigned g63 due out for 2019 that is supposed to be 4" wider. I'm sure the 5.5 bi turbo will be switched out for the 4.0 bi turbo as well. (603hp/627tq vs current 563hp/560tq)

     

    Love the side by side picture Rhyno! Thanks for posting!

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