Lamborghini Aventador S 2017 review | first drive
- Price From $788,914
- Seats2
- Fuel cons.16.9L/100km (combined)
What we like
- Styling, so much styling
- That V12 engine, the pure speed rush of it
- The noise, absolutely bonkers
What we don't
- Not being able to see anything behind you or beside you
- The price. You could have five great cars for this much
- The sheer mass, width and weight of it
Too fast, too loud, too crazy, too dangerous, too big. All of these are phrases a supercar lover would never think to utter when considering the sanity-defying existence of the new Lamborghini Aventador S, and yet exactly the kind of things any reasonable person might say after driving one, or even witnessing it in motion.
Too much, clearly, is never enough in La La Lambo world, and it's certainly true that if you desire a car that will puncture your eardrums while rupturing your spleen and bruising your heart, this is the perfect vehicle for you.
Five years after its launch, the Aventador has been updated and upgraded - with new rear-wheel steering, an allegedly improved gearbox, tweaked styling and a button that says EGO - and uprated, with even more power that it clearly wasn't crying out for.
We went to Phillip Island to drive it around a high-speed track covered in rain, mist and suicidal geese.
Verdict
The Lamborghini Aventador S is a hugely unnecessary car that probably wouldn't exist at all in any sane universe. Fortunately it's from Italy instead.
While it definitely has its flaws - it's simply too big, and too fast, to drive on public roads, and it's too heavy, and mental, to be a purist's track car - there is still something strangely charming about it.
It's the ridiculous design, those super-cool doors, the outrageous and deafening noises it makes, and what it does to your internal organs when you accelerate in it.
There are better, sharper and more affordable supercars than the Aventador S, but there are none that are anything like it.
Is the Aventador S your dream supercar, or would you prefer an F12 Berlinetta? Tell us what you think in the comments below.
Specifications
- PriceFrom $788,914
- Fuel consumption16.9L/100km (combined), 394g/km CO2 Tank 85L
- Seats2
- WarrantyThree years
- Engine6.5 12-cyl Premium unleaded, 544kW/690Nm
- Transmission7-spd automatic
- SpareHa!
- Turning circle11.5m diameter
- Dimensions4797mm (L), 2030mm (W), 1136mm (H)

Lamborghini Aventador S 2017 review | first drive
What we like
- Styling, so much styling
- That V12 engine, the pure speed rush of it
- The noise, absolutely bonkers
What we don't
- Not being able to see anything behind you or beside you
- The price. You could have five great cars for this much
- The sheer mass, width and weight of it
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