The Good, The Bad, The Ugly - Italian Cars Edition #blogpost

Hey hey hey, CT! My name is Flux, the one and only S7 nut and GTO fanboy. Today, I’m back with another edition of Good, Bad, and Ugly.

Quick talk before I get into this: I’ve been slacking on these, I know. School is to blame, along with video game distractions, and just general tiredness. That’s generally why I stopped making comics so much, too. So, I’m gonna need to get the river of ideas flowing again, so I urge you to suggest some ideas for this in the comment section below. Thank you.

Let’s roll!

The Good: Lamborghini Aventado LP-750-4 SV

The Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 Superveloce (Lamborghini, please, stop making your car names so damn long!) is an Italian supercar, as you already know. It is powered by a 740 horsepower, 507 lb-ft, 48-valve V12 engine, sitting in the middle-rear. It is connected to all 4 wheels by a 7-speed semi-automatic transmission. The weight of the SV is 1,625 kg.

Like every other Lamborghini, it’s a performance beast. It pushes a top speed of 217 mph, a 0-60 time of 2.9 seconds, and ¼ mile time of 10.4 seconds.

It’s not just good at straights either, it has a lateral g rating of 1.05 g, a power-to-weight ratio of 1:2kg, and turning radius of 11.5 meters. Impressive, for something that has a massive V12 in the back!

History did this ride good!

Recall the Murcielago SV, from 2009 (chances are, you aren’t old enough to remember haha). When the previous SuperVeloce left the world, it had set the bar for future SV Lamborghinis VERY HIGH. So, what does Lamborghini do? They break the barrier with the one and only LP750-4.

Performance is a major part of this, too. Take a look at the top 5 Nurburgring times:

The SV is in the top 5! It’s one of the fastest cars to ever race on the ‘Ring. That simply solidifies my point to its performance dominance, and it being a proper SV. Not unlike its predecessors, I might add.

(it’s also a good countermeasure against GT-R fanboys who mention the Nurburgring, but that’s another topic lol)

The Bad: Fiat 500L

The 500L is a newer Fiat, released in 2012 at the Geneva Motor Show. It features every engine the normal 500 does, excluding the 1.6L diesel I4. That’s about it.

"Flux, why didn't you include stats, this time?"

I’ll tell you why I didn’t include stats for this glorified Italian Mini. It has no performance, no one would ever buy these for performance, it isn’t built for performance, and no one cars about its performance. It stinks for that reason, first and foremost. I mean, not even a 1.8 liter I4? Is that so much to ask for, FCA? There’s no logical reason to make something this big and have it perform so poorly in general, even if it is an “economical car”. And to think, the freaking thing isn’t even the biggest one you can get; The even newer 500X is MASSIVE.

The Fiat 500 that took an L?

Performance is not, and never will be the only thing bad about this thing. Recall that I called this thing a “glorified Italian Mini”. It really is just that; a glorified Italian Mini. In the same way that the Mini Cooper was enlarged to a 4-door (defeating the name and the purpose), the 500 has made to be needlessly larger. You’re FCA, isn’t the Jeep lineup under your control? Can’t you just stick with the Renegade?

That’s not the end of it, no no. Recall (pun intended) that Fiat is ranked lowest on many modern car lists for reliability, since around 2015. Now, any true car guy will take good care of his car, but what about non-car guys who don’t fully know about what they’re getting into? Or just uninformed car buyers in general? It would be terrible to buy a new car and be happy with it, only to have to take it into the shop every week for repairs because you yourself can’t do it.

And to top all that off, the 2014 500L failed many IIHS safety tests, so good luck surviving a crash in one.

Shame on you, Fiat. Shame. On. You.

The Ugly: 1952 Abarth 1500 Biposto

The 1952 Abarth 1500 Biposto is an Italian (duh) concept coupe designed by Franco Scaglione in the 1950s. Not much is known about it, performance-wise. The most I know of it is that it contains a front-mounted 1.5 liter inline-4, powering the rear wheels. That’s pretty much it!

"Nurrrrrrrrrr!"

Okay, first off, this thing looks like the result of a botched plastic surgery. Almost like a cyclops that had two extra eyes grow in. It’s the front light in the center doing it for me. Even if we were to remove it, it’d still be hideous as hell, because of the other headlights’ positioning.

Scaglione, you were holding out on us!

Pulling a Tom Peters, eh?

If you don’t know, Tom Peters is the man who designed the Corvette C7 and 6th Gen Camaro, but had previously designed the despised Pontiac Aztek. Similarly, Franco Scaglione had designed that three-light-equipped….thing, but had later designed the beautiful Alfa 33 Stradale! A similar time span as Tom Peters, too! Could you not design cars ten years before? Were you blind? Could this blindness not be cured until 10 years later? Well???

But anyway, Abarth 1500 = Nasty. Delete it.

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This has been Flux of CarThrottle! Peace!