2016 Lamborghini Aventador SV Spy Photos - Car and Driver photos and info.What It Is: The inevitable super-faster version of Lamborghini’s super-fast Aventador, the Aventador SV (which stands for “SuperVeloce,” or “super fast” in Italian).
Caught while prancing for a photo shoot in Europe, this prototype’s radical bodywork and assorted wings and things caught our photographer’s eye, and the prominent “SV” stickers on the car’s rocker panels gave away its identity.The Aventador has the exotic-supercar formula nailed.
Start with a hypercharged, eyeball-blasting look--really, a confection of angles and lines and scoops--and toss in liberal amounts of horsepower, V-12 harmonics that soothe and split eardrums at the same time, and a track-ready edition that convinces above-average drivers that they're ready for 200-mph-plus heroics.Oh, and then toss in a more powerful limited edition in the form of the Aventador SV, new for the 2016 model year.
Inside the cabin it’s much the same: futuristic, edgy, and jet-inspired. The space doesn’t feel much like a typical street car at all; it feels more like a Tie Fighter.Without thinking, I found myself instinctively shouting over the vicious V12 howl, “Time to cowboy up! Woooooo!” I still don’t know what I meant by that, but it just seemed right – and still does. Four-wheel drifting a 750-horsepower, near-as-makes-no-difference $500,000 supercar on a Formula 1 track is perhaps one of the most death-defying but also enlivening things I’ve ever done. It makes you happy to be alive, because there’s a real chance that, if something went wrong, you might not be for very long.Driving the Aventador requires a come-to-god moment, wherein you reconcile its razor-sharp looks with its 3,700-pound curb weight and paddle-shift transmission. It's lightning-bolt quick in a straight line, but can lag in corners as it battles its weight, its width, and its all-wheel-drive system for a scalpel-clean line.
On the streets, the ISR transmission can be rough, even in Strada mode. It’s slow to engage, resulting in a herky-jerky take-off from a stop. Swap to Corsa mode and the shifts become lightning fast—and hit-by-a-bus brutal. The happy medium lives in Sport mode, where the shifts are quick enough to be comfortable, but not so violent. Cycling those same modes also helps its ride smooth out: it's always rather stiff, but not always objectionably so.
Inside the cabin it’s much the same: futuristic, edgy, and jet-inspired. The space doesn’t feel much like a typical street car at all; it feels more like a Tie Fighter.Without thinking, I found myself instinctively shouting over the vicious V12 howl, “Time to cowboy up! Woooooo!” I still don’t know what I meant by that, but it just seemed right – and still does. Four-wheel drifting a 750-horsepower, near-as-makes-no-difference $500,000 supercar on a Formula 1 track is perhaps one of the most death-defying but also enlivening things I’ve ever done. It makes you happy to be alive, because there’s a real chance that, if something went wrong, you might not be for very long.Driving the Aventador requires a come-to-god moment, wherein you reconcile its razor-sharp looks with its 3,700-pound curb weight and paddle-shift transmission. It's lightning-bolt quick in a straight line, but can lag in corners as it battles its weight, its width, and its all-wheel-drive system for a scalpel-clean line.
On the streets, the ISR transmission can be rough, even in Strada mode. It’s slow to engage, resulting in a herky-jerky take-off from a stop. Swap to Corsa mode and the shifts become lightning fast—and hit-by-a-bus brutal. The happy medium lives in Sport mode, where the shifts are quick enough to be comfortable, but not so violent. Cycling those same modes also helps its ride smooth out: it's always rather stiff, but not always objectionably so.