Don't worry, I'm a professional
Posted on 05/15/2014 10:58:24 AM PDT by nickcarraway
On might not normally think of valeting as being a particularly high-stress job. If you work at the Hotel de Paris in Monaco, though, you might find yourself trying to park balky and expensive supercars. And that can be a bit of a challenge, particularly when you are a bit, well, stupid.
In this video, we see a valet tasked with parking a very wide, twitchy, and expensive – $400,000 to be exact – Lamborghini Aventador. For a while, it was even going well. The intrepid valet managed to stutter and burble the nearly 700-horsepower monster into a space between two expensive cars. And that’s when he was struck with a fit of overconfidence.
Deciding to show off the Lambo and his amazing parking skills, our hero thought it might be a good idea to rev the motor. Unfortunately for everyone involved, he neglected to check if the mighty Lambo was in gear. What followed was the sort of physics lesson that could have been predicted by Issac Newton. Acceleration times mass over Toyota Rav4 equals sad Lambo and fired Valet.
Other than the crunched nose of the Lambo, that might be the saddest part of this whole video. Hitting a Rav4 is such an ignominious fate for a Lamborghini Aventador. It should have at least taken out a rival, like a Ferrari.
Fortunately, the valet didn’t have much room for a run up, so the only visible damage was to the carbon fiber panel at the front of the Aventador. And that should be a bargain to fix. Why, I bet it won’t cost more than the price of a new Kia Forte.
A big ol’ lift kit, some monster mudders, and brush guards and that thing would rock!
Yeah, but if it’s carbon fiber it will need to be sent back to the factory. I suppose it’s not that big of a deal—Monaco is right around the corner from Italy, anyway.
My brother’s Shelby GT has 900 hp. It’s kinda like parallel parking the Space Shuttle. :)
I had friends in highcool that got job canned for taking hot cars for joy rides instead of valet parking them. It was the 3-4 new miles on the odometers that tipped off the car owners.
That is coming out of his paycheck over the next 20,000 years
At least this valet is out prior to next weekends premier F1 race - The Monaco GP.
Expensive cars everywhere and every slip in the marina (even for a 16’ Boston Whaler) is $40,000 for the weekend.
Excellent!
A 400,000 dollar car? No thanks. As much as I love cars, $400,000 is more than my house. I doubt I could get a mortgage for it.
It's not bad enough to go to that much trouble.
The most notable bit acting parts in movie history, lol.
what... no multistage clutch??? carbon fiber bodies crack like that?
Nice cah.
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