This Mega-Mile Murcielago Just Clocked 300,000
Simon George is not your average Lamborghini owner and his 2004 Murcielago is no garage queen. The British supercar driver and YouTuber has covered 300,000 miles in his Lambo and, to mark the milestone he took it home to the factory in Sant’Agata.
The Tropicana orange V-12 has been worked hard since new in order to pay for itself. “The finance payments were about three grand a month, and I couldn’t afford that,” George told Pistonheads. “I only had enough money put away for about eight months, so I knew the car would have to earn its keep.”
George used it to found his 6th Gear supercar experience company and thousands of paying punters have driven the car since. One, unfortunately, couldn’t quite handle it and the Lambo was crashed in 2012. It took four years and over $100,000 to get the Murcielago back to fighting form.
Rather than pampering it George continued to pile on the miles, using it as his daily driver and reaching the 250,000-mile mark in 2017. Over the years the engine has been replaced once, while it has burned through clutches at the rate of one every 30,000 miles.
To achieve 300,000 miles George set out on a 2,500-mile road trip from Yorkshire in the north of England, taking a ferry from Hull to Rotterdam in the Netherlands and then heading south through Germany where he got to stretch its legs on the unrestricted autobahn. “The faster you go the more it really likes it,” he quips, before adding, “We’re only doing 100 mph.”
Then it was through Switzerland to Italy, taking in an assortment of awesome alpine passes along the way. When he arrived at the Lamborghini factory he was greeted with a hero’s welcome and factory and museum tour.
The magic number was achieved on the return journey as he passed through Germany, and you can bet the Murcielagio’s adventures are unlikely to be over. Bravo!
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I own George Washington’s axe. It has had 5 new handles and the head has been replaced twice.
Jealousy will get you far on this thread.
They were just pointing out the fallacy in the story. Clearly not jealousy but satire.
How long a car will remain running depends on the engine life more than anything else, so a new engine means he essentially has a new car. Once this new engine gets to 300,000 miles, THEN I’ll be impressed. Until that day, this is just misleading.
Two motors? Nice to know the chassis got 300k but not the motor.
Exactly what I thought friend. Once he put in the new motor, this article became BS because he doesn’t have 300,000 mi.
So what would you prefer, that when the engine blew he should’ve just scrapped it? Were you impressed when it was still on its first engine with in excess of 250k miles? It’s a mechanical object, parts need replacement over time. The thing that you’ve not understood here is that the car gets used and nothing gets in the way of that, not even an exploding engine! If you are even remotely interested in understanding better the story of this car and its owner’s struggle to keep it, go to Drivers Keepers on YouTube.
It’s called the Ship of Theseus paradox, namely if you replace every part of something, is it still the original? In this case, I say that in the world of so many 20 year old garage queens coming to auction with less than 3k miles, good on George for actually driving his car, even if that requires “thousands of paying punters” driving it, too to make it possible.
You might like this piece: https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-insider/the-ferrari-of-theseus-philosophy-and-a-1-87m-pile-of-parts/