When you get bad service from a dealer, you either suck it in. Or you start a NameOfDealerHereSucks.com. At worst, you picket the dealer.
What do people in China do? They call in a bunch of guys with sledgehammers. To smash a $750,000 Lamborghini.
A few months ago, a Chinese entrepreneur could not start his brand new Lamborghini Gallardo. He called the dealer in Qingdao. They sent a truck and picked up the car. According to China Car Times, the Gallardo came back with “the engine problem not fixed, and the bumper and chassis were found damaged.”
After arguments with the dealership and Lamborghini representatives, the owner decided to have the car smashed up on March 15. Which happened to be World Consumer Rights Day. The UK Daily Mail values the car as close to $750,000 – before it was smashed.
The Gallardo owner hired a group of men, put them in nice blue uniforms, gave them a sledgehammer each and had them destroy the car.
The story claimed another casualty: Chinacartimes. The sledgehammer story caused so many hits on the site that it went down.
He really showed them. I bet Lamborghini corporate and the dealer are sorry now.
I realize every man has his price, but it would take a decent amount of money for me to take a sledgehammer to any vehicle – nevermind a Gallardo.
It was his car.
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He then filed an insurance claim for “hail damage.”
Some people, not many, have more money than they know what to do with.
If you can afford it, $800k is a fair price for pure satisfaction.
In 1989, right after the Tiananmen square massacre, who among us would have ever believed that during our lifetimes there would be a privately owned $800,000 Lamborghini to be publicly smashed to bits by a disgruntled Chi-com consumer…
I think the shocking part is that in a country with hundreds of millions of desperately poor people there are some who can afford to smash a new Lamborghini. Something seems really out of balance here. This must be the end result of unrestrained, unregulated capitalism I hear Rush Limbaugh bellowing about every day.
@gswhiz
You’re absolutely correct. The hundreds of millions of desperately poor people are desperately poor because of capitalism. They better switch back to communism, because back then everyone had Lamborghinis to smash.
why does this Gallardo cost $800,000?
Import duty, taxes
The irony of a Chinese citizen upset about the quality of a German/Italian-built car does not escape me.
yeah, this is a country responsible for building more worthless crap like light bulbs with a 50% fail rate. But it’s really cheap, and giant corporations are sucked in by that factor every time.
There might be a lot of unreliable stuff made in China but they don’t charge you a premium price for it. Anything that costs a reasonable amount or better that’s made in China is of good quality-lots of high end stuff is made in China all the time, it’s just not dirt cheap.
The same does not apply to Italian cars since they’re not cheap.
800,000 YUAN people, not $. He paid a little over $120,000.00 for this car.
A brand new Lamborghini Murcielago LP-670 SV (Their fastest car) costs $550,000 BRAND NEW. A Gallardo, brand new is about $280k and thats for a 2010 model year. This Gallardo is clearly from the 2003/2004 era. This was a used car from the US.
“Truth about Cars” people… get your facts right and stop trying to make things seem bigger. Still smashing a $120k car is bad enough, don’t have to embellish to $800,000.
I don’t see 800,000 yuan anywhere. You have a source for this?
Both daily mail and China car times quote retail price of such car in china at around 800,000 USD.
Car is not used, daily mail says car was delivered last year Oct, or roughly 6 month ago.
How about you get your facts right and read the article before making a post?
It’s not a $120,000 car because he lives in China where the taxes on high end luxury cars are quite high. In fact, pretty much everywhere outside of the U.S. people will pay several times the prices you’re quoting.
Go look up the prices of cars in Australia or Singapore before posting silliness like this.
Dunno where you’re getting that $800k from, everywhere I’ve seen has reported that the guy spent 1,900,000 yuan on it used (around $290k).
Regardless of how much it cost, I still can’t quite believe you would waste that amount of money just to make the point that you don’t like a car dealers service department.
When I was a kid, a man who lived in our ‘hood bought a new diesel powered Cadillac. After months of fighting with the dealer and GM, he had a sign painter cover the car with, “GM Makes Defective Cars”. He had a fliers printed up detailing his troubles with the car, the dealer and GM that he would give to anyone who asked about the car. Soon after, the car disappeared from his driveway.
Be your own mechanic and things like this are avoided.
Not everybody can be expected to be able to diagnose and fix cars with sophisticated mechanical and electrical systems. You’d might as well say that people should also learn to replace their roof when it leaks. Unfortunately, when “more confidence than competence” DIY home repair people move and sell their house, the new owner is left to discover years later the deficiencies in their home, such as shingles on the roof not having tar paper underneath.
Not the GM Diesel issues.
Be your own mechanic and things like this are avoided.
I am not so sure, as these newer cars have electronics up the Zambezi. Everything has to answer back to the central computer or many CPUs.
If it were a 70s Lambo it would have been a lot simpler, even those webber can be difficult to fire up at times.
In the old days, we say ” If it were a horse I’d shoot it”
Or u wish it was a Volkswagen, but modern VeeDubs are just as PITA too.
Now how’s the dealer & folks in Father land going to deal with this negative press?
This dude got to have lotsa mulla and very little patience, or else he would have fix it again tony summoned.
How true. I had an 05 4Runner that the tailgate window quit working and I couldn’t open the liftgate. Toyota replaced the “liftgate control module.”
Now, could somebody tell me why they need a computer for one window and a handle?
Lamborghini China must have taken their customer service lessons from GM. Good thing he was only destroying the high-volume Gallardo.
Hate to see what he’d do if his wife stopped putting out.
Chairman Mao must be rolling in his grave.
Viewing times are available 9am to 5pm, next to Tiananmen Square.
That video was almost as painful as watching Leone’s Mustang get the beat-down!