Jeremy Clarkson named his car of the year 2018… and it's not the Volvo XC60

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Until the election of the World Car Awards 2019 arrives, in which we return to participate as judges, and until the Volvo XC60 knows the model that will succeed it as car of the year, there are those who disagree with the winner of the award. One of those people seems to be the presenter. Jeremy Clarkson , which has a choice for the year 2018 car that is very different from the Volvo XC60.

The host of The Grand Tour chose the Lamborghini Huracán Performante as car of the year 2018 . The award was given to Maurizio Reggiani, who is a member of the management of the Italian brand, at an event in London.

The famous presenter said that the Huracán Performante was the only car that the made you feel “a certain shiver on the back of your neck that made him think “this car is good””. Jeremy Clarkson also said that what led him to choose this car was not the performance or the design but the way the Lamborghini made it feel.

Lamborghini Huracán Perfomante

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Unveiled at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show the Huracán Performante Coupe received a Spyder version a year later. The engine used by the Lamborghini is a 5.2 l V10, naturally aspirated, producing 640 hp and 600 Nm of binary. All of this allows Huracán Performante to meet the 0 to 100 km/h in just 2.9s and reach the 325 km/h of maximum speed.

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the coupe version it was the fastest production vehicle on the Nürburgring , having then lost the title to the Porsche 911 GT2 RS which later ceded it, again to a Lamborghini, this time to the Aventador SVJ.

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