The Motor Awards 2018: Jeremy Clarkson』s car of the year — Lamborghini Huracan Performante

2018年度猩車—小牛皮

Designed by 10-year-olds for show-offs like me: McLaren』s Senna is faster, but for pure joie de vivre Jeremy picks a Lambo

10歲熊孩子為我這種炫耀狂設計的貨色—Senna也許更快，但猩氏享樂還是Lambo更好。

McLaren has tried a few times over the years to make a supercar that would rewrite the rulebooks and do to Ferrari on the road what it had done so many times on the world』s racetracks. Beat it with a big stick. The first effort was the F1, which had a central driving position, an engine bay lined with gold and a top speed that caused many at the time to say: 「I』m sorry. Did you just say 240mph?」

McLaren多年來都在嘗試打造改寫世界紀錄的超跑，並在公路上讓躍馬相形見絀。一竿子打死躍馬。第一次是McLaren F1，中置駕駛座，黃金引擎倉，極速是當時難以置信的240MPH（386km/h）。

I disliked it a lot. It was extremely wobbly, and this made it hard to handle — a point demonstrated by Rowan Atkinson, who frequently completed journeys in his by flying backwards into a ditch in an expensive cloud of carbon fibre and broken glass.

我很討厭這車。這車奇抖無比，非常難以駕馭——這點憨豆心知肚明，畢竟他也經常經歷倒車飛進陰溝，遍地都是碳纖維和碎玻璃風捲殘雲的慘狀。

Next, the boys from Woking helped Mercedes come up with the SLR, which looked a bit like an SLK that had been to the gym, via that Russian doping chemist』s laboratory. Weirdly, I did like it, even though I will concede its early-days carbon brakes felt as if they were being operated by a switch. You pressed the pedal and nothing happened. So you pressed it more and nothing continued to happen. So in a panic you pressed it some more and then you went through the windscreen.

接下來，沃金的夥計們為三芒星打造了SLR，這車有些像兄貴版SLK，再嗑些毛子的大力丸出奇蹟。奇怪的是，我很喜歡這車，雖然我當年寫道這車的制動有如開關—踩下踏板，啥事兒沒有。於是你再用力，還是如此。驚慌之下你繼續用力，最終飛出擋風玻璃。

After the SLR, McLaren plainly decided to transfer all the best people from its racing division to the road car operation and came up with the MP4-12C. In every way that mattered to the then boss, Ron Dennis, it was a fabulous car, with more torque, power and downforce than any rival Ferrari. But supercars cannot be measured by numbers. And in the only contest that mattered — the battle to win your heart — the McLaren felt like an accountant and the Ferrari like an accountant』s mistress.

SLR之後，McLaren直接把賽車部的大佬帶到公路車部出品了12C。這個決定完全是時任老總Ron Dennis做出的，這車很棒，比躍馬更強的動力 扭矩 下壓力。但超跑可不是數據至上的貨色。而就「俘獲人心」這個超跑核心競爭力方面—McLaren如同會計，而躍馬則是他的情婦。

McLaren tried to make the MP4-12C more exciting. It even shortened the name to 12C so it sounded less like a fax machine. But McLaren didn』t really succeed until it took the hybrid tech from a Toyota Prius, weaponised it and used it to create the fearsome P1.

McLaren試圖讓MP4-12C更加刺激。甚至還將車名縮減到12C，防止傳真機一樣的車名倒胃口。但直到普銳斯風格的混動加身，武裝化性能的嚇破膽P1才真正成功

I loved that car. It was nuts. It scared you half to death at half throttle and understeered like a wayward drunk if you went all in. Porsche and Ferrari had cleverer and faster rivals, but for hairs-on-end thrills the P1 was just brilliant.

我愛P1，那車很瘋。那車會在半油門狀態下嚇你半死，而油門全開則推頭如同醉鬼。保時捷和法拉利都更快更機智，但毛骨悚然的瘋狂，P1才是完美。

And now McLaren has made something even better. It is based loosely on the 720S and doesn』t have hybrid drive: just a 4-litre twin-turbo V8 that produces a mere 789bhp. The top speed is just 211mph, and that』s nothing to write home about.

現在McLaren有了更棒的作品。基於720S，沒有混動，純粹的4.0 V8雙渦輪和789匹馬力。但極速只有211MPH，拿不出手的數據。

However, I』m going to stick my neck out and say no road car would be able to get round a track faster than this machine. Which is why McLaren has called it the Senna. The secret to its track performance is low weight. The seats weigh just 8kg each, which is about the same as one of Keira Knightley』s hairs. And the doors are just 9kg. The whole car? Well, you don』t have to worry about parking it. You could just pick it up and take it with you.

然而，我還是斗膽表示這車的賽道圈速無人可及。這也是Senna這個名號的來歷。輕量化就是賽道性能的核心。座椅每個只有8KG重，和Keira Knightley的長髮差不多。車門只有9KG.整車嘛，你都不必擔心停車難，打包帶走即可。

Because there』s no fat to drag the car out of line, it turns into a corner like nothing I』ve experienced before. And for the same reason it stops so quickly that, time and again, I』d brake for a bend and then have to accelerate up to the apex. You need a system reset in your head to get used to the way this car goes and stops and corners. There are CGI spaceships in Star Trek that are less dainty and quick-witted.

因為沒有拖累起步的脂肪，這車的過彎性能前所未有。迅速的制動也是同理，我曾經反複製動後加速到彎心。你需要重置一下自己的大腦系統來適應這車的動態。星際迷航的CGI飛船都做不到這樣的迅猛。

It is, then, far and away the best supercar you can buy right now. It』s a triumph. And yet I』d still rather have what is my car of the year, Lamborghini』s Huracan Performante. Partly this is because the Senna costs ￡750,000 and the Lambo is half a million pounds cheaper. And partly it』s because the Senna doesn』t have air-conditioning — it』s too heavy. But mostly it』s because the Senna impresses your head and heart while the Huracan is busy in your underpants.

當然，這車，鐵定是目前市面上最強超跑。這是英國的勝利。但我還是要選擇我的年度車型—Huracan Performante。一部分是因為小牛皮比Senna便宜50W英鎊。一部分是因為Senna連空調都沒有—空調太重了。但主要因為Senna打動的是心房和頭腦，而Huracan則打動的是你的慾望.

Serious people who talk about the Brooklands and Prescott hillclimbs and Colin Chapman have it in their heads that the real supercar battle these days is between Ferrari and McLaren, and they』re right, of course. Both build cars to go round a corner 0.1mph faster, whereas Lamborghini just paints everything orange. Lamborghini, I like to think, is run by a bunch of 10-year-olds.

嚴肅的Brooklands賽道與Prescott爬山賽及Colin Chapman愛好者可能會說當下超跑的核心對決在於躍馬和耐克，此言不虛。二者都在為了0.1MPH的過彎速度焦頭爛額，而Lambo則把一切染上橘黃。我認為Lambo應該是一個10歲熊孩子管理的公司

Sure, it』s owned by the Germans these days, which is why the books get balanced and the tax gets paid and the engines work for more than 16 seconds. But the way the cars feel and sound and look — that』s all done by a gang of Italian schoolchildren who』ve had too much pop. You get the sense that, were it not for Audi being all headmasterly, the Huracan would have space lasers on the roof.

當然，當下Lambo屬於德國人，也因此設計更加均衡，逃稅避稅不再，引擎可靠性終於不是寥寥16秒。但車輛的感覺 聲浪與顏值—都是汽水喝多了的義大利熊孩子出品。你能感覺到，如果不是因為燈廠壓陣，Huracan可能會有車頂激光發射器

Lamborghini actually did a version called the Avio, which was inspired by Italy』s fighter planes, and another one called the Polizia, which it gave to the police after one of the two Gallardos Plod had been using was destroyed in an accident and the other ended up in a museum. Oh, and then there was the Huracan Pope Francis. I have no idea why, either.

Lambo的確出品了一款Avio版本，靈感來自義大利戰機，還有Polizia，代替一台進博物館，一台進棺材的Gallardo。而且還有Pope Francis版本，這個我就不懂了

But it』s the Performante that stands out. It』s only a little bit more powerful than the standard car and wades into battle with just 630bhp. But, thanks to some lightweight parts and a lot of careful jiggery-pokery with the aerodynamics (Lambo says it produces 750% more downforce than the standard car, as children do — I』m surprised it didn』t say 「a million」), it set one of the fastest Nürburgring lap times yet.

但亮點在於Performante。只比普版強了一點點動力，升級後僅630HP。但得益於輕量化與許多空力膜法（官方表示下壓力比普版增加了7.5倍，熊孩子應該說「百萬倍」才對）

Some accused Lamborghini of cheating — it didn』t — and I can see why, because a lap time round the 「Green Hell」 of 6 minutes and 52.01 seconds sort of beggars belief. It』s like claiming you』ve dived deeper than a US Virginia-class submarine using nothing but a bucket and a length of hoover pipe.

有人認為Lambo有作弊嫌疑，雖然是胡扯，但我能理解，因為紐博格林6分52秒01的圈速難以置信。如同說自己用水桶和胡佛管潛到弗吉尼亞級潛艇下方一樣天方夜譚

The Senna would go faster, I』m sure, but it wouldn』t have the V10 bellow and howl of the Lambo. And the truth is Lambos may look as if they belong on the track but they don』t. Not really. They are — and always have been — for showing off. They』re big watches, nebuchadnezzars of champagne, beautiful girlfriends and Riva speedboats. They』re Le Club 55 in St Tropez, and everyone laughs at that. But everyone goes when they have half a chance, because you』d rather eat a second-hand piece of cauliflower on Pampelonne beach than the perfect soufflé in a basement.

Senna肯定更快，毋庸置疑，但缺乏Lambo的V10低鳴與嚎叫。實際上Lambo看起來可能很賽道向，都是假象。真的假象。Lambo一直以來，都是花拳繡腿。大金錶，15L的奢華香檳，美麗的女朋友與Riva快艇。聖特羅佩的55號俱樂部，所有人都為之一笑。但他們也趨之若鶩，因為地下室的蛋撻不如海灘上的花椰菜呀

If you want the perfect soufflé in a basement, get a McLaren or a Ferrari. But I think that if you want to live, you should live. And that means getting yourself the car of the year: the Lamborghini Huracan Performante.

如果你想體驗地下室的蛋撻—麥克拉倫或者法拉利均可。但如果你想風流人間的話，這輛年度之車—Huracan Performante????將是你的不二之選。

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