bluedemon

Yes, very true. The 458 feels very smooth and refined compared to the Aventador (haven't driven the LP560-4). Both on the street and on the track.

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488. More interesting than switching to another front engine Ferrari. And it's cheaper.

Blue hera.

I doubt it'll look better in person. You don't have professional lighting available except for photoshoots, so these pictures probably better reflect how red would look in person anyway. It makes sense for red not to show new creases and edges of the 488 as well as other colors. They didn't exist in the 458.

I have a deposit on one and I was thinking red would be the way to go but these pictures changed my mind.

Umm no, the gearbox would make a minimal difference here. The Avendator's single clutch is fast enough. Now, maybe the driver was in the wrong mode or just didn't shift at the right times, I don't feel like trying to overanalyze it, but the result is not far from what could be expected given their power and weight figures and Aventador's AWD.

Is the car on consignment? If not, then they are out of line.

You said like you're some kind of an authority for all people that it doesn't matter which one is faster or better on the track. It doesn't matter to you and it's fine to have this opinion. We don't yet truly know if the performance difference is large or not and that's why people are quoting the numbers from the magazines. Even if it turns out not to be, as is likely. Nobody said that performance is the only thing that matters. It's obvious that it's not the case without you coming into the thread to say it. It's not even the most important factor to me. And thanks for proving my point by mentioning McLaren - if performance mattered to nobody, they would sell 0 cars with the MP4's meh looks, yet they sold a couple thousand. Same with the GTR. People are arguing on the Internet about things that matter to them. So yeah, it's a personal preference, but not everyone has the same preference as you. In my opinion, unless you take the car to the track once or twice, you don't really get to know it and you're missing out.

There are exotics at 1/2 mile events or track days (especially dealer-organized ones), a lot of talk about performance on forums like this one, and in magazine reviews, so I don't buy it. The owners might actually use their exotics' performance very rarely but it doesn't mean they completely don't care. Even if it's just bragging rights. What do you think would happen to the sales of Lambos if they had 200 hp?

It doesn't matter to 90% of people but to some it does. It does to me.

Aventador is at 7.5 seconds 1.3% uphill (my vbox results).

Except that the Aventador has a harsher ride, just as bad visibility, same width, worse ground clearance, throttle that's harder to modulate because of more power, less storage space, completely unintuitive layout of controls, worse ingress and egress, and just as rough transmission as compared to the Diablo and the Murci.

That's true that the Aventador is too heavy to be a good track car. It doesn't feel smooth or precise enough. I would disagree. There is less storage space than in the Murci and the ride is harsher. Newer technology, like the back-up camera, doesn't make up for it.

Very nice!