Simmon 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 Tango orange V12 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 £90,000 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, 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!
