Aventador Lamborghini goes out in sympathy with Ferrari: first Aventador spontaneous combustion

[Borys Bozzor Pawliw]

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Well, better it burnt BEFORE he handed over the Amex Centurion...

 

[Human]

Oops! Is it that Ferrari @ Lambo is making their cars explosive compliance mandatory?

 

[Levi68]

 

[Centurion]

Someone please answer this? How come when that when Toyota were accused of selling cars with stuck pedals every family under the sun with a Toyota lawyered up to the 9th degree and filed class action suits.

When Lamborghinis and Ferraris combust like molotov cocktails no one flinch???

 

[speed_kills]

Porsche design maybe generates less heat?
A V12 must heat up like hell.

 

[Levi68]

How about the McLaren F1? Did many catch fire?

 

[speed_kills]

 

[Human]

Someone please answer this? How come when that when Toyota were accused of selling cars with stuck pedals every family under the sun with a Toyota lawyered up to the 9th degree and filed class action suits.

When Lamborghinis and Ferraris combust like molotov cocktails no one flinch???

IMO Question of the year!

We all know that if something with any consumer product in the USA goes wrong it's suing time!

Here in SA the CPA (Consumer Protection Act) law only came into act a year ago, April 2011 by government.

 

[Borys Bozzor Pawliw]

Someone please answer this? How come when that when Toyota were accused of selling cars with stuck pedals every family under the sun with a Toyota lawyered up to the 9th degree and filed class action suits.

When Lamborghinis and Ferraris combust like molotov cocktails no one flinch???

I'd guess it's because the limited buyers for these class of cars really are half expecting things to go wrong with them - despite the huge quality strides made in the last few years with these brands (in terms of fit/finish and general reliability), people don't associate these brands with bullet proof reliability, so they cut them a bit more slack. And I guess the dealers/factory offer them deals on the side, perhaps. But on a more practical level, what I also strongly suspect is that buyers for these cars, if they took Ferrari or Lamborghini to court, could be blacklisted from buying these marques. Given there are such huge waiting lists and that these cars are still so desirable, that may be too big a price to pay...

 

[Centurion]

I'd guess it's because the limited buyers for these class of cars really are half expecting things to go wrong with them - despite the huge quality strides made in the last few years with these brands (in terms of fit/finish and general reliability), people don't associate these brands with bullet proof reliability, so they cut them a bit more slack. And I guess the dealers/factory offer them deals on the side, perhaps. But on a more practical level, what I also strongly suspect is that buyers for these cars, if they took Ferrari or Lamborghini to court, could be blacklisted from buying these marques. Given there are such huge waiting lists and that these cars are still so desirable, that may be too big a price to pay...

Make no mistake I would not say no to a fire red Ferrari let alone a flammable Ferrari, but one shouldn't have to wear a 3 layer nomex suit and have the fire brigade on speed dial to own a care. Sure the 911 GT2 used to be a widow maker that tried to kill its driver mid corner but at least the wife got the body back in tact for a funeral.

Recent Ferrari's are as much of a hazard as Sony's laptop batteries that were mass recalled in 2005-2007. Imagine a Ferrari burning up on the shoulder of a high way and then having an inattentive driver plowing into it?? Or what if a Lambo combusted in a parking complex full of tens of other cars at night? The problem doesn't sound so small now does it? Toyota were fined for accelerator pedals but so far I have yet to hear any government giving Ferrari a slap on the wrist.

 

[Levi68]

I'd guess it's because the limited buyers for these class of cars really are half expecting things to go wrong with them - despite the huge quality strides made in the last few years with these brands (in terms of fit/finish and general reliability), people don't associate these brands with bullet proof reliability, so they cut them a bit more slack. And I guess the dealers/factory offer them deals on the side, perhaps. But on a more practical level, what I also strongly suspect is that buyers for these cars, if they took Ferrari or Lamborghini to court, could be blacklisted from buying these marques. Given there are such huge waiting lists and that these cars are still so desirable, that may be too big a price to pay...

You can always get a second hand Ferrari/Lamborghini and can get it instantly without waiting. Even better no?

 

[Cashmere]

 

[Guibo]

A V12 must heat up like hell.

Probably yes, but then there have been V8 Ferrari and V10 Gallardo fires. And you don't hear much if anything about Aston/BMW/MB V12s burning. I'm guessing there are many thousands of Mercedes biturbo V12s built by now, and these are daily drivers. There is one well-documented case of a BMW V10 burning, but that was after 28k miles and the car had previously been in a major accident; there are also about 35k of these engines built. A mid-engine layout should make it worse, but then front-engined 599s and FFs have caught fire too.

Probably with getting a 2nd hand Ferrari is that it's not likely to be made to your specification, and quite possibly a "market adjustment" is involved.

I'd agree too that buyers of exotics are more willing to forgive spotty build quality. When people say they'd give their left nut for a Ferrari, only half of them are joking. Nobody desires a Toyota so much. Toyota did get a raw deal in that whole witch hunt.