A very special thank you to my friend John for the great time driving his LP640 and Tesla Model Y Performance! Go check out his KZfaq channel @slowasiandriver where he posts more reviews of his cars and plane and his Instagram for fun pictures as well.
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Roughly a year ago my friend asked me which car he should buy, a white Ferrari F430 Scuderia or a white 2009 Lamborghini LP640. When he told me more about both cars I instantly recognized the LP640 as it's the same car I went cross country from Las Vegas to Miami in back in 2011 with another friend who is the original owner of the car! I recommended he buy the LP640 for multiple reasons and being a 2009 model year it is one of the last LP640s produced right before the swan song LP670 SV. In my opinion the Lamborghini LP640 is also the epitome of what an exotic car should be.
He is obsessed with his Tesla Model Y Performance and I'm also very impressed of how capable the Tesla is all around so we thought it would be fun to see how they stacked up in a straight line pull. Over this past winter while I was visiting him we had an opportunity to take out the LP640 and Tesla a few days after it rained which cleared all the roads of sand and salt. It was still a cold day so the traction control was majorly limiting the LP640 acceleration even in Corsa (race) mode because the rear tires are so wide they are literally like hockey pucks when they are so cold. After 3-4 runs up to speed the tires started to warm up and grip without traction control kicking in so early.
You can clearly see the Tesla pulls really hard off the line even when rolling from roughly 20 MPH. Once the LP640 gets up into the higher revs and shifts to 2nd gear it becomes a different story as it starts to reel in the Tesla like it's standing still. I think the results would be completely different on a warm summer day when the LP640 tires don't have any issues with traction and can grip instantly all the way to redline. We might have to run this test again, for science of course!
Thanks for watching, I really hope you enjoyed the video!