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Lamborghini Aventador Track-Day.

By BOB GRITZINGER on 5/02/2011

At first I thought maybe it was just jet lag, or travel lag, related to doing a superquick three-day trip from Detroit to Rome and back to drive the 2012 Lamborghini Aventador. But after rejoining the morning commuter traffic back in Motown, piloting one of our more mundane test cars, it's safe to say that I'm suffering from the aftereffects of tearing around a track for a day in the 690-hp Aventador. Though I never came close to the car's 217-mph top speed, after hitting a mere 149 mph on several occasions, I'm certain that I felt the car's full impact.

Consider a few of the Aventador numbers:

-- 0 to 60 mph in less than 2.9 seconds, or the time it takes your TV remote to change a channel.

-- 0 to 124 mph in 8.9 seconds, or the time it takes for a traffic signal to change from yellow to red (we assume that's in places without red-light cameras and allegedly "quick" yellows).

-- 0 to 186 mph in 24.5 seconds, or the time it takes to power up your iPad.

-- 124 to 0 mph: 420 feet, or a little more than the typical distance from home plate to the center-field fence in a major-league ballpark.

-- 60 to 0 mph: 98.5 feet, or the distance of a 32-yard field goal.

-- Quarter-mile: 10.5 seconds

-- Acceleration force: 1.5 g's

And all of that comes with a 13.5-mpg combined fuel-economy rating from the EPA. Your mileage, obviously, may vary.


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