Lamborghini Gallardo up in flames

The supercar gods continue to be angry

The supercar gods continue to be angry at the super rich, as yet another high-priced exotic has gone up in flames.

This 2005 Lamborghini Gallardo "burst" into flames on Friday, in the UK, shortly after eyewitnesses saw smoke billowing from the engine compartment. Although an investigation is currently underway, firemen reported the car burned more intensely because of the Gallardo's carbon fiber and alloy construction.

The £75,000 ($120,580 USD) Gallardo was a complete loss, but thankfully both occupants seem to have escaped uninjured.

As we have previously reported, this year has been bad for supercars as a Ferrari 430 burnt to the ground after an accident in Romania and a McLaren F1 spontaneously combusted in California.

Source: bbc.co.uk

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 N20_Purge N20_Purge
Another one bites the dust.
July 8, 2009 2:29 pm
 Floppy Floppy
lol, one more - stupid italiens. Get a german car ;)
July 8, 2009 3:54 pm
 alessandro alessandro
Yes, buy an R8, it is bigger and burns longer.
July 8, 2009 4:19 pm
 Hardboy997 Hardboy997
The Gallardo is almost German isn't it?
July 8, 2009 5:12 pm
 McNamara68 McNamara68
2 Floppy: what a stupid comment. It´s not because the car is italian, or german, or american. It´s because of the people who drive it or the insufficient air for the engine.
July 8, 2009 6:25 pm
 djcocum djcocum
Lambos are getting too German these days as it is . . . Never thought I'd see the day when a Lambo would come with 4WD (SUVs excepting).
July 9, 2009 5:52 am
 kimbo kimbo
Remember that before Audi took control of Lamborghini, there was already a 4WD Lambo, the Diablo VT ;)
July 9, 2009 7:09 am
 JamesAsh JamesAsh
exactly, Diablo VT had 4WD, so it's not Audi idea to put 4WD in Lambos
July 9, 2009 9:31 am
 simalive simalive
What caused the fire? The engine overheating?
July 8, 2009 3:55 pm
 mmr66 mmr66
i have two freinds that used to have lp640's one died and the other had miner burns all beacuse of the car catching fire.
July 8, 2009 3:56 pm
 Shyne Shyne
hot sh**! lol sorry for being mischievous. :)
July 8, 2009 3:59 pm
 norther norther
maybe this one was punished by the super car gods because it had the wheel on the wrong side... id be angr too :)))). mmr66, sorry for your loss man. i have no rich friends. does this mean i should look on the bright side?
July 8, 2009 4:25 pm
 Paulds Paulds
Any car is totally worthless compared with a human life... sorry for your lost mmr66
July 8, 2009 5:50 pm
 GONDOR GONDOR
i think it`s an electrical problem because we have a lot of supercars here in middle east and the weather is almost 60 degree all the summer and we never heard of a supercar catches fire after overheating problems
July 8, 2009 8:12 pm
 alessandro alessandro
Agree!
July 13, 2009 5:18 pm
 Anthropos Anthropos
Why do u assume he is telling the truth? Sorry, mmr66 can't believe u.
July 8, 2009 8:16 pm
 GHK GHK
haha yeh like if i say i have two rich friends that used to have 430 scuderias and one died and the other one survived and barbequed a steak with the fire and walked away alive ... i wouldnt believe myself either
July 9, 2009 1:39 am
 SZQ SZQ
That's not the Gallardo going up in flames...it's just the flames coming out of the exhaust. LOL...
July 9, 2009 3:56 am
 kimbo kimbo
Quite big flames I have to admit :D
July 9, 2009 9:32 am
 elsonlau elsonlau
This is the remake of Mission Impossible 3 scene which the Lambo blows up.
July 9, 2009 4:19 am
 vertigobike vertigobike
Is it that hard to keep a Fire Extinguisher in your car?... don't tell me there's no room for it!? :-) Obrigado
July 9, 2009 10:12 am
 Shark Shark
Seems like those mid/rear engine cars are over heating due to lack of air flow, and it doesn't help that the fuel tanks are near by if they do catch fire...
July 9, 2009 4:04 pm
 superracer superracer
great car on flame
August 3, 2009 8:08 am
 mr.z06 mr.z06
hundreds of thousands of dollars burned in fire.... that's a huge waste, if you just rammed a Honda it's only a few thousands, don't worth it.... On youtube, a Z06 raced a Gallardo, and you can tell the Gallardo is putting all it's power in the race, but still lost, to a $80,000 Corvette Z06? that's my car right there. Too many European Cars broke down all these years, and the price never worth it...
August 13, 2009 9:37 pm