Yesterday I read a story that a Lamborghini Murcielago owner has shipped his car from Qatar to London via air freight for a service. A 6,500 mile round trip costing approximately £22,000.
As a Lambo’ fan who is focused on one day owning a Lamborghini Countach this doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. Of course there are plenty of green-o-philes who are disgusted.
As usual I got to wondering what was the truth behind this? Is flying a Lamborghini Murcielago to the UK really all that inefficient?
Now I admit most if not all these figures are taken from unconfirmed sources, but then, this is just for fun:
A quick hit on Wikipedia and it seems Qatar airways use Airbus A300’s to transport cargo.
An Airbus A300 gets 9mpg when fully loaded.
An airbus A300 carries 75,000Kg of freight.
A Lamborghini Mercielago gets up to 13 MPG.
A Lamborghini Mercielago weighs 1665Kg.
Now this opens two arguments: either a Lamborghini when fully laden gets only 4 miles per gallon more than a full Airbus300, or working at MPG per Kg it is almost 30 times more efficient to fly the car than to drive it.
With figures like that, how can the ‘greenys’ be mad?
