Lambo vs MG drag race: Aventador Ultimae vs Cyberster, can electric beat V12?

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Can a $110k electric car dethrone a $1m V12 supercar? We line up the V12 Lamborghini Aventador Ultimae to take on the fully electric MG Cyberster across the 1/4 mile and a rolling race.  See our previous drag races: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw_MiPgGBLEtecn8dMGIJPsvTwOviQqsO  2025 MG Cyberster (inc. 0-100 & braking) review: Porsche Boxster dead on arrival? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrQvkvVjv4  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Drag race 1: 02:00 Drag race 2: 03:57 Roll race: 05:11 Timed runs: 06:51 Outro: 07:56  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #mg #lamborghini #dragrace

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00:00G'day, I'm Paul. Yes, you are seeing what you think you're seeing. This is an MG Syberster,

00:05and that is a Cadbury-coloured Lamborghini Aventador Ultima, and it looks, it looks so

00:13good, and it sounds unbelievable as well. Elbors, run us through quick power and torque

00:19specs on that. Right, so this thing, this is pretty much a dinosaur now. Obviously, the

00:22new one has come out, but this is the best of the Aventadors. It's a 6.5 litre V12 with

00:27570 kilowatts and 720 newton metres. Now, it's supposed to do 0-100 in 2.8 seconds. It is

00:34pretty wet out there, though, so I'm not sure if I'm going to get much traction, but I reckon

00:37I'm going to catch you as we get going. Yeah, well, I mean, that's the thing. It is

00:40diabolically wet out there, and this is like the only time it's stopped raining in the past

00:44two days, so we're just trying to squeeze this in where we can. The interesting thing,

00:48even though that makes 200 kilowatts more than this, this is about 370, they have the same

00:52amount of torque, so this being electric, you're getting that instant torque. Whether this will

00:55hold that torque across the quarter mile, though, will be a different story, and of course,

00:59that, when it launches, it just sends all 574 kilowatts of power to the road. It doesn't

01:04even just wait. It just goes, no, you just have all of that, so yeah, it'll be interesting

01:09to see how it goes, and I'm most excited to hear what that sounds like, and in fact, just

01:12give it a little tickle now.

01:16Can I just point one more thing out? I just did a practice run before, and I have to tell

01:20you, I'm genuinely scared for my life. This thing in the wet is diabolically scary.

01:23Yes, especially for amateur drivers like you.

01:27A big shout out to MG for helping us cover the cost of putting all this on, and if you

01:31do want to check out our single car review of the Cyberster, where I put it through its

01:34paces at our Proving Ground, you can use the link in the description below. And finally,

01:39a massive thanks to our mate Lawrence, who has loaned us some of his incredible cars to

01:43run some of these drag races. What we're going to be doing is a quarter mile run with both

01:47of these cars from a standing start, then we're going to do a rolling race where we drop

01:52a hat and both take off at the same time. Then at the end, I'm just going to be quiet

01:55so you can hear these cars barreling down the quarter mile, and you can see the exact numbers

02:00that we log.

02:01I'm nervous. I've got this in super sport mode with launch mode enabled, so I'm just

02:06going to be pushing the brake and the throttle at the same time, and it should, in theory,

02:09take off with some great pace. Oh, I'm actually scared. I don't know what's going to happen

02:16here. That thing is a rocket ship.

02:19Launching on go. Three, two, one, go.

02:24Oh, yes. Oh my God, it is wet. Come on. Oh, I am destroying him.

02:44Oh, he's catching. He's catching. He's catching. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

02:54Yes. I just bet. A Lamborghini Aventador Ultimate.

03:00No way. Yes.

03:05Oh my God, that was so good.

03:10I'm really struggling with traction off the line here. Hey, it's crazy.

03:13You're just full of excuses, aren't you? It's as wet on my side of the road as it is on yours.

03:18I had no problems. Let's do that again. I bogged down a bit on second gear.

03:22Look, I will admit it is very wet out here, but in theory, you should be able to do what I can do.

03:28You have the same amount of torque.

03:32There's something to be said about the way the electric motors can distribute the torque better

03:35in the wet, because this thing, when it drops the torque band, it really struggles to get back up to

03:40speed. If we had a bit more room, you would have caught me. If it was dry, you would have caught me.

03:45But I'm curious to see if you get a bit more traction this time around, how we go. But let's definitely do

03:51that again. And then we're going to do the roll race. And in the roll race, I reckon that is where

03:54I will be in dire, dire strife.

03:57All right. He's got better traction there. Come on. Come on. Get traction.

04:12Yeah. Oh, this is going to be close. This is going to be close. Come on. Come on. Come on.

04:17Come on. Go, baby. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Oh, come on. Come on. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

04:31There we go. There we go. There we go. Damn it. Oh, just, he just bent me there. Oh, that's

04:47how you do it. That's how you do it. Damn. That was close. Holy moly. Nice. That was, that

04:54was, that was so close. You just won that. Bastard. Man, I won that by about a quarter

05:01mile, I reckon. Yeah, righto, champ. Quarter mile is the distance of the entire thing. You

05:06won that by about two or three car lengths. I don't think I could even see you in my mirrors.

05:11Now, with this roll race, we're both going to accelerate up to 50 k's an hour. And then

05:15Elbors is going to pick the optimum gear for him. This is electric, so I can just stand on

05:20the throttle. And then as soon as Igor, cameraman Igor, drops his hat, or his reflective vest,

05:25whatever he's got at the moment, we're going to slingshot down to the quarter mile marker.

05:29All right, let's go. Oh, look at him just being all perky there. All right, here we go.

05:37Come on, baby. Yes. It was briefly close. Oh, this isn't too bad. No, no, he's, he's well and fully got me here.

05:56There was, like, two car lengths in that. I don't care what you say, that was close.

06:16Mate, all I hear is about how close you were, not how much I won by.

06:19Yes, well, the fact that I could have about 11 of these for your one Cadbury-coloured supercar there,

06:28I think says it all. It really is a good-looking car, that Cyberster, I've got to say. I'm not sure

06:33about the indicator things on the back, but the rest of it looks fantastic. It's a shame you can't

06:37take the roof off, because I reckon I wanted to see your hair going all over the place as we were

06:40racing. Look, I will admit that, yes, the wet weather has definitely handicapped you, because that

06:47thing is an absolute rocket ship, but I'm still admirably impressed. Now, this is where I'm going

06:52to throw to the part where I'm just going to be quiet, and you get to hear what these cars sound

06:57like, accelerating down the quarter mile.

07:27I'm going to go there, isn't it?

07:29I'm going to be Stuye.

07:30Hold the sorry.

07:32Hold it closer.

07:34Hang on.

07:39Hold it on.

07:50Pr satisfaction.

07:53Fuck you.

07:53Wow, that was something else. Look, I knew that that would be quicker. I mean, it is a light

08:03supercar. It is unbelievable. But I did not expect this to be as close as it was. Like,

08:09that is some genuinely crazy stuff. And for, what, a tenth of the price, even more than that,

08:15it is a stupendous value for money. Now, we do have a stack more of these videos coming,

08:20so make sure you have subscribed to the channel. Big shout out as well to the legends here at

08:23Wildcatchem, about two hours out of Perth. Come here and grab a feed if you want. Visit the nice

08:29sites. Visit the airport. Good place to be. But until next time, take it easy.

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