Jeff Allinson my brother & I once raced one on the west side high in New York City. Unfortunately for the Lambo, the driver wasn’t too good with traffic so we beat him in a Lexus. But he got us on the straight away when the traffic was done
It's not a hawk but indeed a bird of prey, it's the Peregrine Falcon, which is a small raptor that divebombs to up to 200mph to catch prey. Probably why the analogy is accurate.
@@jamessveinsson6006 That's not right. Peregrine falcons in North America were endangered at some point around the 1970s due to DDT, but they've had stable populations since 1999 and were subsequently removed from the endangered species list.
i think no one is realizing that the HAWK / FALCON (or just some freaking un-domestic bird alright idk which one go figure) flying along side is one of the most EPIC CAPTURE SHOTS of the times and "flappy pedal HEAD" is one of the most EPIC analogies of the TIMES
@@Zak-ob5ze sorry Mr expert-David Attenborough- of zoology but i think u got the point also thanks a lot for ur correction u saved my life and probably this world coz god knows we could have mistaken it for hawk and that wud have triggered an earthquake of a 15 R-scale measure. So now i am gonna change the word to the bird or a slash seperated word so that immature non grown ups like u can understand that actual senario i was trying to describe here rather than an object
@@angelogomes5174 im 25 right now, I must have been 11 or 12 years old when I saw this, me, my dad and my younger brother watched every friday, those where in deed: the days
@@stefanriemann7074 when you have so much money that material possessions just ARE. To them it's not a 190k car.....its.....just a nice car they can afford.
@@Virtuoso23 the name “personal opinon” tells nothing to you? Seems like u don’t understand that not all the people want to drive a ultra rare deadly metal piece
@@netweed09 Murcielago is the last old school style Lamborghini. I dont care how much faster or higher tech the newwer ones have. They lack the simplicity and style of cars like murcielago or diablo. thats why an aventador or any other car will never be better. not to mention murcielago has a manual transmission. also the style will never look dated.
@@german80 I think they all look dated prior to the Aventador (well, Lamborghini think so too, otherwise why bother producing updates?) But - I do like the older cars, if only for their sound. They all sound Epic, amazing timeless noises and sometimes that can make a car alone
Not the rotating knives and machine guns, not the hesitant and tender lovemaking, but the stig sucking moisture from ducks. That actually sounds like a pretty good summary of top gear.
It's true though. If you'd saved the cash and bought your Murcielago with a gated manual transmission, it would have been cheaper to own and would now be worth more money.
@@LargeLatLad best looking Lambo ever. Powerful, menacing and genuinely imposing without over designing it with ridiculous spoilers, splitters and diffusers. It's like a well dressed, clean shaven business man that you just know has had somebody killed.
This used to be one of my favourite Top Gear UA-cam clips back when I was a teenager. I often used to watch this clip both at home, and when I was at music college. Now, a decade later, here we are.
And with a McLaren F1, and very recently with the Bugatti Chiron, albeit he pitted an M4 against the Chiron, and if I remember correctly a Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 against the McLaren F1.
The V12 in this, I think, sounds better than the Aventador somehow. In the low revs it’s more growly and in the upper revs it screams. It’s also one of my favorite cars when I was a teenager, and still is; the Murcielago SV, in black, especially is just epic.
Lamborghini are probably a more successful brand now than ever, due to years of sensible handling, but as pointed out, they're regarded as supercars - they're not considered to be hypercars in this day and age. Back in my childhood, they absolutely were. Now if they were to produce a radical hybrid with McLaren-like performance and insane looks to rival the Veneno, they'd be king.
Colds And it's about combining that sort of performance with the glamour and mystique which makes something truly elite. That's what will restore the Lamborghini legend to where it used to be; where few can compete and none can better them.
Not gonna lie. This car in that lime-ish green is one of my dream cars. Had the same one with chrome rims as a poster as a kid. Maybe I'll get lucky. Aha.
The demonstation at 4:40, is the EXACT same thing he did when he tested the old Lamborghini Diablo, watch it, its funny how he took the ideas over to this episode.
Drove this last week and it's just incredible. Everything is epic. The sound, the handling. I don't care if the monthly payments are $4,280 or about 8mpg. I'm going to start saving.
Tyler Kulchinsky It was a E Gear manual and it wasn't that honor goes to the baby lambo, the Gallardo which lasted until 2013 while the Murcielago ended in 2011, the Gallardo had a manual from 2004 to 2013 making it the last Lambo with a manual.
honestly I don’t see why people get so hung up on ancient technology like the “proper manual gearbox” that just makes it more complicated to drive than it needs to be. might as well bring back the crank start as well
As we can appreciate from the eyes of a 2023 human being Jeremy Clarkson just launch controlled a single-clutch Lamborghini that is mental not even Matt from carwow will do that
@@FloridaCams I am german and I approve XD There are exceptions though, me and some friends had a fat smoke sesh last saturday and basically laughed through the whole damn day ;)
Tanner Jacobsen it probably is for 2 or three years, i like the zr1 it does what it says on the tin but compared to the lambo its a plastic tacky chav waggon
@Kheops63 Just for your information, you are wrong. The very first production car to ever be fitted with a turbocharger was from the US. GM first fitted turbochargers to two of their cars in 1962. The Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder and the Oldsmobile Cutlass Jetfire. Just wanted you to know. ;)
CrazyChemistPL I think its one of the best looking cars ever made, search it up in orange or green with black wheels and i think you'll change your mind.
Tyler The Murcielago is really dull looking though no matter what color, the Revénton is one of the most maddest looking Lamborghini Murcielago based car ever, next to the Aventador J, the Murcielago is pretty dull for a Lambo given the Gen I version didn't age well over the years. I've seen Murcielagos even the Spyder we'd go nuts for a Lambo but its not the most provocative lookinh thing.
You are right, but that was first introduced in 1973, and outside of that and one other vehicle, BMW has never had a heavy focus on turbocharged Gasoline engines for its vehicles. My point was more in line with they are starting to use them in almost all of their line-up of cars. Sorry for the confusion. Heck if you want to get picky, Mercedes has had a few Supercharged cars since the late 30's. Superchargers and Turbochargers arent new tech., but are just becomming more mainstream.
GM had a turbocharged Oldsmobile and a Chevrolet as early as 1962. The patent was filed in 1905 by a Swiss guy. The first turbo-Diesel truck was produced in Switzerland in 1938.
"Top speed is two hundred and... tell you what, let's find out."
That is my favorite line ever
Nah, not a patch on ''it does 8 miles to the gallon,, Or FOuR''
But what he actually found out seemed to be the top speed he could achieve before reaching the end of runway.
3:52
My grandma was the girlfriend of ferrucio lamborghini for 3 years
I will never forget being overtaken by one of these things on my way home from work. The noise was simply INCREDIBLE!! Sent shivers down my spine.
Jeff Allinson my brother & I once raced one on the west side high in New York City. Unfortunately for the Lambo, the driver wasn’t too good with traffic so we beat him in a Lexus. But he got us on the straight away when the traffic was done
There's a guy down near me in Naples FL with a LibertyWalk kitted mercy....shes gorgeous
@@2twelvez They are a potent beast on the straights, and sound amazing. Whereabouts is the West Side High?
Jeff Allinson sorry, meant to say West Side Highway* aka Henry Hudson Highway
@@2twelvez I am none the wiser. It's a long time since I visited the states so I am not familiar with that street.
Jeremy has convinced me to buy that hawk next to the lamborghini. 2:43
It's not a hawk but indeed a bird of prey, it's the Peregrine Falcon, which is a small raptor that divebombs to up to 200mph to catch prey.
Probably why the analogy is accurate.
Which became extinct here in America and about the 1920s
@@jamessveinsson6006 That's not right. Peregrine falcons in North America were endangered at some point around the 1970s due to DDT, but they've had stable populations since 1999 and were subsequently removed from the endangered species list.
It's a falcon not a hawk. Look at the wing shape.
@@jamessveinsson6006 lol wut...saw one the other day
i think no one is realizing that the HAWK / FALCON (or just some freaking un-domestic bird alright idk which one go figure) flying along side is one of the most EPIC CAPTURE SHOTS of the times
and "flappy pedal HEAD" is one of the most EPIC analogies of the TIMES
Peregrine falcon to be precise
P V why do so many commentators think it’s a hawk? Clearly a falcon, hasn’t anyone seen Stewart Little 2 😂
It's not a hawk. Look at the bloody wing shape. Its clearly a falcon
@@Zak-ob5ze sorry Mr expert-David Attenborough- of zoology but i think u got the point
also thanks a lot for ur correction u saved my life and probably this world coz god knows we could have mistaken it for hawk and that wud have triggered an earthquake of a 15 R-scale measure.
So now i am gonna change the word to the bird or a slash seperated word so that immature non grown ups like u can understand that actual senario i was trying to describe here rather than an object
I thought they just edited it in lmao
I remember when this episode aired, damn, those were the days.
Today is even more precious
Really? How old were you?
Poppa WoLFF these days things aren’t so precious lol
@@angelogomes5174 im 25 right now, I must have been 11 or 12 years old when I saw this, me, my dad and my younger brother watched every friday, those where in deed: the days
@@quasimodo8959 26 here, those were the days we all thought we'd own a house by now xD
The Golf let him win.
This recreates a lambo vs gti race done by jeremy around 1993. But that was a diablo.
Lol
@@Bagadbigala what u mean dawg
@@Bagadbigala sit down
@@Bagadbigala ...and you got shit in your name, moron. It was a damn joke. Clearly the subtly of it all is lost on you.
I lost it when Jeremy said the stig sucks moisture from ducks
Ducts
😂😂😂
@Bilal Khalid it's been a year dude
@Bilal Khalid nice stay safe man
I thought he said: "Sucks moisture from dust."
Only £190.000,00 huh? Just let me fetch my wallet.
@Draggy654 can you explain what you did here?
@Draggy654 wow that was so important
How stupid can humans be to buy a car for that amount of money? ????
For this money I buy me a nice house and land. Amen
@@stefanriemann7074 when you have so much money that material possessions just ARE. To them it's not a 190k car.....its.....just a nice car they can afford.
Sheriff's office the actual comment says that the car only costs a 190 pounds, so yes they are important.
Murcielago is my favorite Lambo of all time.
*Ehm* the name "Miura" tells nothing to you?
Never heard about the Countach or the Diablo?
@@Virtuoso23 the name “personal opinon” tells nothing to you? Seems like u don’t understand that not all the people want to drive a ultra rare deadly metal piece
Same for me. Best looking Lambo yet before they went downhill with the angular mess.
IMO one of the top 10 most beautiful car designs ever. So low and sleek, yet muscular and imposing.
Nah, it looks dated to me. And the popularity of the amazing Aventador proves this
@@netweed09 Murcielago is the last old school style Lamborghini. I dont care how much faster or higher tech the newwer ones have. They lack the simplicity and style of cars like murcielago or diablo. thats why an aventador or any other car will never be better. not to mention murcielago has a manual transmission. also the style will never look dated.
@@german80 I think they all look dated prior to the Aventador (well, Lamborghini think so too, otherwise why bother producing updates?)
But - I do like the older cars, if only for their sound. They all sound Epic, amazing timeless noises and sometimes that can make a car alone
Lamborghini Murcielago LP- 670-4 SV
@@netweed09 I like the 2010 Mercielago SV it looks much meaner and updated than this one, and the Gallardo SV both more track oriented
this car has aged very well, it looks stunning
Not the rotating knives and machine guns, not the hesitant and tender lovemaking, but the stig sucking moisture from ducks. That actually sounds like a pretty good summary of top gear.
Ducts
why not both
i love the A/C joke of jeremy to the lambo!!
"You'd need a flappy paddle head for one of those!"
HAHA
Hello from 9 years in the future. How are you now?
@@d4rbo 10 years now😔
no answer still :(
It's true though. If you'd saved the cash and bought your Murcielago with a gated manual transmission, it would have been cheaper to own and would now be worth more money.
And the irony is that Lambo's E-gear sucks big time!
the mouse joke xD
0:42 The Bat open its wings: fascinating!
this car was designed around a decade ago and still looks very modern
Even now in 2022 it’s still beautiful
@@LargeLatLad best looking Lambo ever. Powerful, menacing and genuinely imposing without over designing it with ridiculous spoilers, splitters and diffusers. It's like a well dressed, clean shaven business man that you just know has had somebody killed.
2023 and it's still modern looking
Same for me. Best looking V12 Lambo before it went downhill with angular mess.
This used to be one of my favourite Top Gear UA-cam clips back when I was a teenager. I often used to watch this clip both at home, and when I was at music college. Now, a decade later, here we are.
1:00 "And look at the exhaust pipe [...] you only get one and not *17* like in other hypercars" XD
I have loved Audi for 15 years, and the Merciélago is one of my favorite exotics of all-time. I guess it makes sense now.
My love for Lamborghini is indescribably they make cars that talk to me, pure passion.
My favorite Top Gear video by far. It still gives me goosebumps whenever I watch it. It's perfect!
Didn't they do the golf gti comparison in 1995 with the old lambo?
flipidy94 ahh yeah
I see you're a man of culture and taste as well 🎩
He even used the exact same line! "This is the difference between a fast car, and a Lamboghini"
And with a McLaren F1, and very recently with the Bugatti Chiron, albeit he pitted an M4 against the Chiron, and if I remember correctly a Nissan Skyline GT-R R33 against the McLaren F1.
still one of my favorite reviews, along with the aston martin DBS.
Jezza's road test of the BMW M5 V10
Plus the M3 and i8
i love top gears presentation... the build up to the pros from the cons was "proper"
You still alive champ?
always am amazed by the cinematography of top gear
The V12 in this, I think, sounds better than the Aventador somehow. In the low revs it’s more growly and in the upper revs it screams. It’s also one of my favorite cars when I was a teenager, and still is; the Murcielago SV, in black, especially is just epic.
The Stig is listening to a book on CD. That's hilarious!
I just replied to something that was written 10 years ago...yay
Actually it says "giri"
Italian word for revs (rpm).
or everyone who watch, support and love the show from the bottom of their hearts... long live TopGear!!
Top Gear is simply one of the best car shows I've ever seen..
...in the world....
Few 360p video I can't skip!
I miss the original Top Gear and cast... ;-(
Honestly it was fine but it was much better after Jeremy and Richard took over in 2002.
1:29 That would drive James "Captain OCD" May right over the edge
Probably my favorite lambo ever
I like how most of these car reviews always go by the rule "This car is good/bad until it isn't"
music in the video is
Antonio pinto - consequences and loss
Hell yea, audioslave playing in the background
did the same thing with fast car and a lamborghini in 1992 with a diablo and golf. cant get tired of it.
It feels like im playing NFS when i listen to that baby rev
You alive?
This is one of the most epic reviews from top gear
"You'd need a flappy-paddle head to spend that!" hehehe
You commented that in 2009 lmao. How are you now lol
The old top gear just have that speical touch to it. I don't know what it is but I keep coming back for more
Lamborghini are probably a more successful brand now than ever, due to years of sensible handling, but as pointed out, they're regarded as supercars - they're not considered to be hypercars in this day and age. Back in my childhood, they absolutely were.
Now if they were to produce a radical hybrid with McLaren-like performance and insane looks to rival the Veneno, they'd be king.
The aventador SV is faster than most hypercars around a track
Colds And it's about combining that sort of performance with the glamour and mystique which makes something truly elite. That's what will restore the Lamborghini legend to where it used to be; where few can compete and none can better them.
2:40 What a soundtrack!!!
Not gonna lie. This car in that lime-ish green is one of my dream cars. Had the same one with chrome rims as a poster as a kid. Maybe I'll get lucky. Aha.
i have seen one..
what an car... love the noise it makes
How do they get the bird to fly beside that noisy car?
Trained probably
fake
no
Oh geez, how do you get an animal to do anything?
Drugs.
Beautifully filmed
damn a gearbox change cost as much as a decent car from 2000 XD
The demonstation at 4:40, is the EXACT same thing he did when he tested the old Lamborghini Diablo, watch it, its funny how he took the ideas over to this episode.
I loved that Jeremy recreated the same drag race from the 90's between a lambo and the golf gti 👏🏻
The sound is glorious!!!
There are so many pigeons in this video
+Arjun Singh I liked the kestrel though.
those are not pigeons
pretty sure there wasn’t a single pigeon in this video and the birds in it looked nothing like pigeons... I don’t think your eyes work very well.
Drove this last week and it's just incredible. Everything is epic. The sound, the handling. I don't care if the monthly payments are $4,280 or about 8mpg. I'm going to start saving.
Did you get it yet
audioslave full album on you tube song called bring um back alive
em
what a really really nice view when the bird flew in sync with the car on the road at 2:55 :D
Last Lambo to have a proper manual gearbox. That makes it my favorite
Tyler Kulchinsky
It was a E Gear manual and it wasn't that honor goes to the baby lambo, the Gallardo which lasted until 2013 while the Murcielago ended in 2011, the Gallardo had a manual from 2004 to 2013 making it the last Lambo with a manual.
honestly I don’t see why people get so hung up on ancient technology like the “proper manual gearbox” that just makes it more complicated to drive than it needs to be. might as well bring back the crank start as well
Yammmit ... Its not complicated if you know how to drive.
And the earliest murcialagos are approaching 20yrs old and still look amazing
i like this car
i love the demonstration using the GTI haha. "Big wow!"
Top Speed- Lets find out :)
14 years ago😊😉
They should cal the new top gear the Chris Harris show
Jeremy Clarkson’s favorite word: SSSTAGGERIIING!!
You're making yourself hillarious looking when you talk for Lambo.
No car has ever and will ever sound better.
Im gunna say it.
Murcielago > Aventador.
I'm gonna say it.
*I'm
*gonna
@@siler7 No one asked.
The irony that the manuals became more valuable.
2019 anyone?
Deja vu on this video. He also did a similar comparison in the past with the Diablo and an Mk2 GTi. It bleeds my heart because I own an Mk6 now.
The Golf is actually a Polo 😂😂😂
The golf thing was actually repeating something they did in the past, when they Tested the Diablo they also raced it against a Golf GTI.
I am only here because @VINwiki
Aha the rover A/C system!
A golf gti is a “fast car”?
Compare it to a Toyota IQ then yes, it is a fast car
Its a fast car for the common man, its no Mustang but compared to other daily commuters its fast.
As we can appreciate from the eyes of a 2023 human being Jeremy Clarkson just launch controlled a single-clutch Lamborghini that is mental not even Matt from carwow will do that
Finally old school music with some old school topgear❤
if germans take over any car firm, they make the car look germanic. lambo have lost their lunacy and now bentley & rr have lost their english styling.
It's because the Germans have no sense of humor.
@@FloridaCams I am german and I approve XD
There are exceptions though, me and some friends had a fat smoke sesh last saturday and basically laughed through the whole damn day ;)
I wouldn't say an Aventador looks r sounds like a german car 😂
Yeah man. Last time I saw a Reventon, I thought it was a Golf.
Seeing that top leaderboard, made me want to view all those top cars again, those were real Top Gear great times...
Still slower than an enzo
it also costs 1 third of the enzo and they made 4000 of them instead of 399.
+Ejmin Khosrov ian yeah but what i want say is that the enzo is an achievement
The SV is faster than an Enzo
Colds im talking about the normal one the lf would destroy the sv ,more torque, lighter, more bhp, and rwd
Buuster1999 the what would destroy the SV?
14th anniversary of this video!
Corvette ZR1 price = $124 000
Lamborghini Murcielago price = $382 000
Murcielago top speed 207 mph. 0-60 = 3.4 seconds. Quarter mile = 11.8 seconds.
ZR1 top speed 205 mph. 0-60 = 3.4 seconds. Quarter mile = 11.3 seconds.
Why pay $258 000 more to go 2 miles an hour faster?
you must be a septic, there is alot more to a car than straight line speed
john therealstig must be Amercian maybe? Fast around a track, much more fun than driving a straight line ;-)
Corvette is faster around the track than the murcielago.
Tanner Jacobsen it probably is for 2 or three years, i like the zr1 it does what it says on the tin but compared to the lambo its a plastic tacky chav waggon
BECAUSE ITS A LAMBORGHINI!!
@Kheops63 Just for your information, you are wrong. The very first production car to ever be fitted with a turbocharger was from the US. GM first fitted turbochargers to two of their cars in 1962. The Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder and the Oldsmobile Cutlass Jetfire.
Just wanted you to know. ;)
Not particularly bad looking car... but dullest looking Lamborghini by far.
CrazyChemistPL I think its one of the best looking cars ever made, search it up in orange or green with black wheels and i think you'll change your mind.
Tyler
The Murcielago is really dull looking though no matter what color, the Revénton is one of the most maddest looking Lamborghini Murcielago based car ever, next to the Aventador J, the Murcielago is pretty dull for a Lambo given the Gen I version didn't age well over the years.
I've seen Murcielagos even the Spyder we'd go nuts for a Lambo but its not the most provocative lookinh thing.
That color is amazing with the gunmetal wheels. The best looking Lamborghini ever.
I can not believe this is over 10 years old already
This Review is Art !!!!
these guys are good.. i love how dramatic they made the video ..
2:39 lol i like how the birds like, its a monster get out of here xd
My favorite top gear episode
The original Top Gear will never be 'topped'! I lived for this show, and just like a good dog, seriously mourn its loss..
The king of the hypercars 🔥🔥🔥
So much respect
the sound of that v12 is soo badass!!!
You are right, but that was first introduced in 1973, and outside of that and one other vehicle, BMW has never had a heavy focus on turbocharged Gasoline engines for its vehicles. My point was more in line with they are starting to use them in almost all of their line-up of cars. Sorry for the confusion. Heck if you want to get picky, Mercedes has had a few Supercharged cars since the late 30's. Superchargers and Turbochargers arent new tech., but are just becomming more mainstream.
Yeaaah, sticking your hand through the steering wheel to point at the speedo showing 200+ mph sounds like a very rational idea! Gotta love that guy!
What's the background song at 00:20?
GM had a turbocharged Oldsmobile and a Chevrolet as early as 1962.
The patent was filed in 1905 by a Swiss guy. The first turbo-Diesel truck was produced in Switzerland in 1938.
Lamborghini is like my favourite car company, great design and great power
The Murcielago is by far my favorite Lamborghini. Its gorgeous.