Lamborghini Aventador Supercar Struggles To Drive Over Speed Breaker In India [Video]
In the last couple of decades, the number of exotic cars in India has gone up significantly. If you are from a metro city, it is very likely that you would have spotted a sports car or a supercar on the road at least once. While we do have people who are willing to spend crores on such expensive cars, the infrastructure in our country is not something that can be called supercar-friendly. Here we have a video of a Lamborghini Aventador struggling to drive over a speed breaker, proving just that.
The video has been shared by CS12 on his YouTube channel. In this video, we see a red-coloured Lamborghini Aventador approaching a speed breaker in Mumbai. The vlogger recorded the incident, and we can clearly see how difficult it is for supercar owners to drive over speed breakers on Indian roads.
The driver comes to a complete stop and then carefully drives over the speed breaker diagonally to avoid damaging the nose of the vehicle. The car seen here is registered in Tamil Nadu and belongs to Fahim Sultan, the owner of the Drools Pet Food brand.
There is another video of the same car from Mumbai where the supercar owner is seen struggling to cross a different speed breaker. In fact, as the Lamborghini struggles to clear the obstacle, a kid on a bicycle can be seen crossing the same speed breaker without even slowing down.
While many supercars come with nose-lift features, they are often not sufficient for the kind of speed breakers we have in India. The ground clearance on such cars is extremely low, and they can easily get beached on steep or poorly designed speed breakers.
In fact, we have come across several videos online where even SUVs get stuck or scrape on speed breakers that are too steep and built in an unscientific manner. The supercar driver in this case seems to have learned to live with the situation and probably uses the same technique every time he drives the car on Mumbai roads.
It is such a time-consuming process that we can clearly see traffic building up behind the Aventador, with other vehicles waiting patiently for the supercar to clear the obstacle.
It is not just city roads - many highways across the country also have speed breakers installed by authorities, usually near junctions. Instead of ensuring that vehicles entering the highway slow down, speed breakers are installed directly on the highway, making things inconvenient for vehicles travelling at higher speeds. Such speed breakers on highways have even caused accidents in some cases. We sincerely hope this changes in the coming years and that India develops road infrastructure suitable for all types of vehicles.
The Lamborghini Aventador seen here is the Aventador S, powered by a 6.5-litre naturally aspirated V12 petrol engine that generates 700 PS and 690 Nm of peak torque. The car has been officially discontinued and has been replaced by the Revuelto. When new, the Aventador S used to cost around ₹5 crore (ex-showroom).