Sliding with the Bulls: We Survive Lamborghini?s Winter Accademia
Generally speaking, it?s more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slowly. But after spending a whole day driving Lamborghinis on a frozen lake about two hours northeast of Montreal, Quebec, we?ve had to rethink that. Indeed, driving a Lamborghini Huracán or an Aventador on a frozen lake in Canada or anywhere, honestly, will have you rethinking a lot of things?your financial goals, your aversion to cold, your life choices, the basic tenets of physics?but one thing seems truer than ever as you watch $4.5 million worth of angry-looking carbon-fiber and aluminum beasts charging around a curvy path carved into the snow, their bright Skittles-color paints contrasting strikingly against the snowy white backdrop: Rich folks really do have more fun. We were there to participate in Lamborghini?s Winter Accademia, a two-day ice driving program which the company has hosted in certain global markets annually since 2012 that highlights the winter-friendliness of Lamborghini?s all-wheel-drive supercars?an understandably incredulous notion to the uninitiated. And here you thought the upcoming Urus was going to be the ?winter Lamborghini.”
Heretofore held in Aspen, Colorado, the North American Winter Accademia was moved this year to this remote, privately owned Canadian property located about 75 miles from Porsche?s Camp4 Canada winter driving school on which we reported last year. Conveniently, the property features a luxurious timber-construction boutique hotel and a la...
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