Filed under: Maintenance, Etc., Supercars, Lamborghini
Owner ships Lambo from Qatar to London (and back) for oil change
A wealthy Arab man, thought to be a Sheikh, recently had his black and gold Lamborghini LP640 flown 3,250 miles to London via Qatar Airways and trucked to a certified UK Lamborghini dealership last Friday for a fluid change, which cost him a paltry £3,552 compared to the £20,000 round-trip flight. That's a grand total of £23,552 ($46,644 USD) for a friggin' oil change.
Environmentalists are obviously not pleased with the owner's wanton display of conspicuous consumption. Airport workers at Heathrow also blasted the owner's excess after watching the car get the royal treatment on the runway. One commented, "This car doesn't have a carbon footprint - more of a crater," and another pointed out that it would've been much cheaper to just fly certified Lamborghini technicians to Qatar to do the service.
This type of behavior begs the question of how far one's personal choice extends in the face of the greater good. We're told the Earth is dying beneath our feet and it's all our fault, so should a Sheikh be allowed to ship his car around the world for an oil change while the rest of us stick compact flourescent light bulbs in our lamps and wait in line to buy a Prius? Perhaps the only act that could be more environmentally egregious than this is if he just threw out his exotic and bought a new one every 3,000 miles.
[Source: The Sun]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
rsfourever 1:33PM (7/31/2008)
this smells of jealous people trying to act pious in the face of someone who shows off his wealth too much for their approval...
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User 1:42PM (7/31/2008)
You don't see anything wrong with that? It's not jealousy it's that kids are dying in Africa from starvation! Hellooo
User 1:51PM (7/31/2008)
Then spend the money on educating underprivileged kids in America.
Dear Lord, I feel awful for the future of our world.
Nick 2:04PM (7/31/2008)
can a mod please delete Nathan's comments? Outright bigotry doesn't have a place on an automotive blog. Thanks.
Takeo 2:13PM (7/31/2008)
Hey Nick,
It might be outright bigotry, but there's also something called freedom of speech. Did your poor little retinas suffer burns from reading his comments?
Besides bigots run rampant here on autoblog. I'd name names but Mike, Richard and Testa all know who they are.
MikeofLA 2:13PM (7/31/2008)
"If someone owns something and wants to do something with it, what does it matter?" he said.
"If [the owner] wants to hire a plane and service it, it's his business. There are far more serious things to concern ourselves with."
darkhelmet 2:17PM (7/31/2008)
@Nathan, azzo45
assholes... how about we let people like YOU starve?
Vintage 2:18PM (7/31/2008)
It just makes me pissed that to get to work I have to give money to these stupid Arabs with bajillions of dollars, most of the Veyrons, and a city that puts people in jail for having a piece of marijuana smaller than a grain of rice stuck in the tread of your shoe.
maxconfus 7:39PM (7/31/2008)
not bigotry, it's friedman.
Polly Prissy Pants 2:25PM (7/31/2008)
Sorry, all you self-important narcissists can't just run around doing whatever the hell you please without a care in the world how it affects the rest of it.
If this guy wanted to start buying oil wells and lighting them on fire because he thought they looked pretty when they burned, would that be OK?
And don't give me that 'you're just jealous' BS. I'm tired of that stupid excuse giving every d-bag with cash a free pass for wasting a finite natural resource and polluting the planet.
Corey W. 2:27PM (7/31/2008)
There is no free speech on AutoBlog, it's totally within the owners rights to remove comments.
AC 2:34PM (7/31/2008)
Seen this car in person (in London). The yellow bits catch your eye, then make you nauseaus, still, if that's what he likes i'm not complaining.
Red 2:46PM (7/31/2008)
@ Nathan,
Maybe we should've started the starving with you, since a large portion of the world's population originates from that "God-forsaken continent". I'm sure the world could do without one less douchebag.
darkhelmet 3:15PM (7/31/2008)
@azzo45
#1 calm down
#2 i didnt say rich oil sheiks dont deserve to go bankrupt, or that they deserve all the oil they have
but there are a large number of people in the mideast who are like you and me and are working to get through life...
theres a small number of oil sheiks just like there are a small number of oil executives here.. and ur comment applies to BOTH: "resource that they are OVER charging for is 100% different."
hoping that the mideast is wiped off the planet (as a figure of speech) and that IS your implication.. IS being an asshole
granted, nathan is MUCH worse i didnt care to make 2 posts
"Flunked reading comp. did we d*ckhead??"
no i didnt actually, and you're still an asshole
Franz 4:00PM (7/31/2008)
I definitely wouldn't be so wasteful, but I think people should be entitled to do whatever they want with their money... as long as it's legal, of course. If you're gonna complain about this, then we should be complaining about people who gamble ( I know I guy who's head of an Investment group in the Turks & Caicos... p*sses away $40 grand and up in casinos every weekend) and Tycoons and Moguls who buy expensive clothes, shoes and Jewelry for their women (Does your wife or girlfriend really need that hundred grand ring or necklace?)... and guys like Max Mosley... I doubt those h**kers were cheap.
What about those folks who spend tens of thousands of dollars a night on accommodation in the Various Hilton and Ritz Carlton hotels... what's wrong with Holiday Inn?
Do sports stars and entertainment icons really need to hit up Jacob for the latest bling, or put 30 inch chrome wheels and custom leather in their SUVs? Hell, if you're gonna argue along those lines, you could knock a guy for spending over $20k on a new Camry when a $3k beater could get him to work and back... where would we draw the line with regards to how people spend their money?
takeo 5:23PM (7/31/2008)
The deeper issue is:
If you want these people to stop being so stinkin, filthy, absurdly rich:
We should stop using their oil and natural gas.
TwinTurboVR4 6:16PM (7/31/2008)
@takeo
Amen. So lets get a petition going and get the Democrats in congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling. Or to let us drill in Alaska.
Whubbsie 8:15PM (7/31/2008)
Black and Gold Lambo..... yeah not too smart to begin with not surprised his dumb enough to think sending a car half way across the world for an oil change is smart
azzo45 9:27PM (7/31/2008)
Hey dark helmet... I tend to get pissed when I'm lumped in with racist stupid a$$holes like Nathan. You grouped my comments in with his. Here is a refresher of what you said.
@Nathan, azzo45
assholes... how about we let people like YOU starve?
I said NOTHING about starving POOR people. Middle Eastern oil sheiks, sending their exotic cars half way around the world is GD stupid & an extreme waste of money (what no Lambo dealers any closer?)
If Texas or Alaska became an oil mecca 10 times the size of the Middle East & American bizillionares were doing something as stupid as the guy in this story... I would wish dry wells on those fictional bozos too.
Perhaps my point was crude... but the world has numerous dictators & areas that are starving. Also, it seems many governments don't give a damn either. The Middle East is a focus (& extremely wealthy) due to Exxon Mobil making 12 BILLION a quarter Shell , BP & others are in the BILLIONS as well. The Arab oil families are business partners with these guys.... & because this planet is addicted to oil, we ignore other areas in need.
TwinTurbo... Who do you think will do the actual drilling in Alaska wildlife reserves & off shore of the USA???
Big Oil (Exxon-Mobil, Shell, BP... hell even Neo Con's favorite South American oil company Citgo?) will be awarded the contracts to explore & drill. Big Oil is not going to drill there exclusively for the USA. They will send it to the highest bid (China, India, Russia....)
The American oil will go where the $$$ lands. Plus even oil companies ESTIMATES say there is 2-4 years worth in these "restricted" areas of Alaska.
We have to find alt. sources of energy someday & a replacement for oil at some point... let's start spending the $$$ on those alt. solutions... not drilling until we pump out the last drop.
azzo45 10:14PM (7/31/2008)
Nick: You got your wish... 10:10PM (EST) & I no longer see Nathan's comments. AB seems to have blown them out.
Personally I would have left them up... then others could read & remember his retarded rantings.