Last Call: Apparently aliens drive Lambos?

Colby Buchanan

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I know Lamborghinis are often considered spaceships on the road but I don’t think it was meant to be taken so literally. When I saw this on Twiter I tried so hard to find a reason as to why. Like who was it at the social media meeting that suggested that they do a photoshoot with a guy in a white Morphsuit and call it an alien. At the very least they could’ve used the actual alien one.

I also just don’t get why it was written this way. “The Huracán EVO is the spaceship aliens use,” really? I think I have to assume that again it’s because people make the connection between the car and its technical aerodynamics. Also why Abruzzo? This post is so cryptic that it must have some hidden message for us. Either way, it was definitely a weird thing to see first thing in the morning. What do you think about it?

 

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Colby Buchanan

Colby Buchanan

My name is Colby Buchanan and I love all things car-related all the way from rusted 240sx’s to McLaren Senna’s and of course I have a soft spot for American Muscle. You can spot me in my bone stock ’06 350z named MackenZ.

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16 responses to “Last Call: Apparently aliens drive Lambos?”

  1. Maymar Avatar
    Maymar

    https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/community-sitcom/images/1/1a/Human_Being.jpeg

    Driven mad from years of inhaling marker fumes, the Greendale Human Being embezzled the college’s savings, flush with recently collected tuition, and departed Colorado for somewhere with less paintball battles.

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  2. Batshitbox Avatar
    Batshitbox

    Apparently the Huracán EVO Spyder is also the spaceship aliens use to cop a squat behind.

    Must have had a bit too much of the ol’ Intergalactic Laxative

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  3. Sjalabais Avatar
    Sjalabais

    We had the weirdest car sale experience yesterday. As the Camry failed its tech inspection spectacularily, and the potential repair bill was, again, above the value of the car, we decided to sell:

    https://www.finn.no/car/used/ad.html?finnkode=194098127

    The first call came about five seconds (!) after I hit the “publish”-button. Then almost 30 more calls from people talking broken English and Norwegian in the first four minutes until I took the ad down again; I couldn’t take them all, of course. Second caller ready to pay more money than I had agreed on with the first guy, sight unseen.

    But the first guy got it. After 15 years in my wife’s family, this trusty, but totally used up Camry is going to Nigeria.

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    1. outback_ute Avatar
      outback_ute

      Camry is the new Peugeot 504?

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      1. nanoop Avatar
        nanoop

        They built the 504 in Kenya until 2004, Sjalabais’ car is from 2001 – so, yes!

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    2. nanoop Avatar
      nanoop

      one “3”, which usually means “you are not taking the car home tonight”… selling it into a second youth is a good thing.

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      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        Yeah, the rear axle was held in place by one surviving bolt. Incredibly, I didn’t notice that much on the smooth main road I take from my house to work. It just felt like the exhaust was dinging up on the car’s underside…scary.

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    3. 0A5599 Avatar
      0A5599

      Ii had a neighbor who was in the business of exporting used car parts to Nigeria. Your definition of “totally used up” is most certainly at a different standard than a Nigerian’s.

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      1. Sjalabais Avatar
        Sjalabais

        Not doubting that at all. He was very clear that what he needed was a good motor and a good trans, everything else didn’t matter. Which was good, because everything else was really quite worn. Nice car inside though, still. A funny anecdote is how he quoted shipping to be 4500 NOK to Hamburg, from there 4000 to Nigeria, “and then it should be 10000 in toll upon arrival – but nobody is paying that”, with the brightest smile. Dysfunctional, probably, but good for him.

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        1. 0A5599 Avatar
          0A5599

          My neighbor hardly ever shipped complete cars, due to the shipping cost–they took up too much volume in the shipping container and had a different import duty classification. The ones he did ship intact were usually very depreciated Lexuses that he would buy here for next to nothing and then his colleagues would sell at the premium commanded in Nigeria by the brand name. I do remember him buying a Mitsubishi pickup, cutting it in half, and loading the front half into the bed in order to better utilize the container’s volume and bring it into Nigeria as “parts”. I should have asked for pictures of it welded back together.

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          1. outback_ute Avatar
            outback_ute

            My reference of the 504 was that about 25 years ago there were guys who would buy any car available, and they would cut the roof off to fit more in a container.

          2. 0A5599 Avatar
            0A5599

            He definitely bought every Peugeot available within a 75-mile radius. This was more than a decade after the brand abandoned the US market, and the average selling price of anything other than a Garage Queen was about $500. But the used parts were worth more than the car. He had a small crew of guys he would pay $200/car to strip everything that could be unbolted, then the chassis would go to the scrapyard. Most of the crew worked day jobs as cabbies or hot shots, and so they were always scouting neighborhoods after dropping off the package or fare.

          3. Sjalabais Avatar
            Sjalabais

            Honestly, sounds like a great way to make some extra money. And I love that good cars earn the right to survive – in some form or another. Old Hiluxes and Hiaces go down the same road.

  4. nanoop Avatar
    nanoop

    The free(tm) scooter starts! Still a little bit to do though: a small but ignoble coolant leak in the tubing needs fixing, the mandatory mirrors are missing, and it dies when I rip open the throttle (ok when I open slowly, so it’s the sudden pressure drop that makes it meager out). Ah, and I’m still lacking ownership…

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  5. Tiller188 Avatar
    Tiller188

    Maybe it’s just me, but Lamborghinis and their image seem far too loud, brash, and badass for this approach to…marketing? I guess? Either way, as I read that modern-art-gallery description I can’t help but imagine the Huracan saying the Italian equivalent of “whatever, nerd” before peeling out in a cloud of tire smoke and V10 howl.

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  6. 0A5599 Avatar
    0A5599

    Probably confused it for a Ferrari. Or a Buick?

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