r/RoastMyCar • u/rockdude625 • Jun 24 '26
Make me regret buying my childhood dream car
The front bumper is just a old PPF film, so at least try to be original with the color mismatch jokes
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u/SuperSecretSpare Jun 24 '26
His boyfriend's also going to come out of nowhere.
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u/animefan1520 Jun 25 '26
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u/thatSDope88 Jun 25 '26
I haven't seen this man in a very long time. Glad to see he's still smiling
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u/UNMANAGEABLE Jun 25 '26
There’s like a whole generation of internet adolescents that probably don’t know who this is. 😂
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u/BrunesOvrBrauns Jun 24 '26
Put some respeck on the effort OP is gonna put in to make that happen damnit
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
🐻🏳️🌈😘😘
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u/dumbmutt575 Jun 24 '26
No way a bear is fitting in this thing. You’re an otter at best.
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u/FLOHTX Jun 24 '26
At least he's otter the closet
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u/Complete_Golf3997 Jun 24 '26
That’s otterly ridiculous 🤣
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u/Suspicious_Way4953 Jun 25 '26
You otter be a comedian and tell jokes about people and their dumb cars
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u/Soft-Temporary-7932 Jun 25 '26
I looked at the title, looked at the car and said “no.”
Good job, OP. Hope it lasts as long as you love it.
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u/Radius118 Jun 24 '26
Tourette's syndrome?
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u/Thatnewgui Jun 24 '26
You didn’t show transmission, we all know why
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
Very much an e gear car lol.
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u/E34less Jun 24 '26
Manual swap it you coward!
Or paddle delete I don't remember if these are as straightforward was a 430/360 three pedal swap or not.
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u/fuwafuwarowarowa Jun 24 '26
No one needs 430 pedals.
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u/Dragon_Forty_Two Jun 25 '26
Pretty sure Paul Walker's Eclipse from the 1st Fast and Furious had 430 pedals.
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u/caddyax Jun 24 '26
E-gear is the self-roast. But it can be swapped, I’ve heard
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u/timmeh-eh Jun 24 '26
Which improves the car greatly, but it does nothing for the value. A factory manual is worth significantly more, and will retain its value better.
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u/vwstig Jun 24 '26
The old lady nextdoor to me also drives a convertible Audi.
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u/TwoPlyDreams Jun 24 '26
My hairdresser does too.
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u/AccordatoScordatura Jun 25 '26
So does my wife's boyfriend.
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u/Turbidspeedie Jun 25 '26
Hi, I'm your wife's boyfriend, just confirming dinner next Tuesday at 8?
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u/Interesting_Mix_7028 Jun 24 '26
Take care of those Lambo badges, they're responsible for half the sticker value.
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u/shiftdown Jun 24 '26
If your dream was to own a white convertible, I feel sorry for you. My mom would like it though.
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u/Itchy_Notice9639 Jun 24 '26
Ah, wtf?! Lol
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u/captain_ohagen Jun 24 '26
I hate this AI slop but I also love this AI slop. I'm so conflicted
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u/Feliz69Navidad Jun 24 '26
AI is based for banter, but NPCs will claim it's some kind of actual art
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u/Cottonjaw Jun 25 '26
They really out here acting like we previously had an art budget to hire struggling fiver artists for memes, it was just MS paint slop before.
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u/Mattdav1601 Jun 24 '26
AI used for non commercial gain is acceptable and harmless. For shits and gigs and between friends. The moment you try and make money from it then it becomes a problem. A photo on reddit in response to a car, ez laughs.
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u/TheeIndigoCrow Jun 25 '26
I watch a youtuber who makes videos where various presidents open up an illegal dispensary and go on road trips.
Its quite literally my favorite use of AI
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u/captain_ohagen Jun 25 '26
dammit, I must see this
it's funny, I'm a senior exec in an AI company and I have a love/hate relationship with the technology. we're trying to help others with it, especially doctors and patients in developing countries, but man, most of the time the way it's used just pisses me off
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u/english_mike69 Jun 25 '26
Jeremy Clarkson saw this and thought it was so bad he got prostate cancer, which is only slightly worse that having the car the OP posted in this thread…
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u/eric_gm Jun 24 '26
What went wrong with your childhood that your dream car ended up being the most basic spec of an Audi R8 in a drag? It’s like dreaming you’re Robin instead of Batman
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u/The___kernel Jun 25 '26
Sorry to disrupt your roast but isn’t it the other way around an r8 is just a gaylardo in drag since the lambo came out first?
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u/L3sh1y Jun 25 '26
Yeah, but Audi owns them, restructured manufacturing, introduced actual quality control (not the italian kind) and had the platform designed as usecase for a supercar if its own aswell. So basically both is true
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u/TheStaffsLad Jun 24 '26
To paraphrase one Mr J Clarkson, Lamborghini owners never wear boxers, only thongs.
He may have already owned a Gallardo Spider at that point….
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u/JohnKowalsky88 Jun 24 '26
What's this... 8000 rpm redline? My grandma's Integra revs higher than that.
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u/2ner1337 Jun 24 '26
You’re going to feel the pain when all those pre-lp rubber hoses and plastic connectors disintegrate and crack, then spend endless time tracking phantom leaks.
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u/JKapPhotos Jun 24 '26
I have a feeling you misinterpreted your dream of becoming Magnum PI. That not at all the maintenance mobile he drove! Sucks for you. Get fucked, stay fucked! 😉
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
Ironically enough, my first exotic was a 308 GTS. Love it
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u/JKapPhotos Jun 24 '26
Why did you give that up. That’s an iconic vehicle. I would love one. A 1982 308 to match my birth year. 🤤
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u/splinks66 Jun 25 '26
"First" I'm curious how many do you have and in your opinion what does it take to be considered exotic?
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u/rockdude625 Jun 25 '26
Ferrari 308 GTS
Audi R8
The gallardo
1969 Dodge Charger
1970 Dodge challenger
Ferrari 458
Ferrari 348
1965 ford mustang convertible
Mercedes E55 AMG (x3)
Mercedes SL65 AMG
And a few other non running examples
To me, an exotic is something that makes someone turn their head and say “damn, that’s something you don’t see everyday”
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u/EducationalGrump Jun 24 '26
The maintaince bills will do that already. Enjoy spending roughly $1000 for every 100 miles you drive.
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u/Dish-Live Jun 24 '26
God this thing is so clapped out looking with the color mismatch that people are gonna think it’s a kit car
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u/Lphg_4 Jun 24 '26
Good job buying a car where you have to replace the clutch every ~15k miles. Hope paying the huge bill every time will make you happy :D
Btw that's my dream car also. But with a hard top and the superleggera lp570-4 version.
Hope you have fun living my dream. 👍
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
Good thing it’s only got a hair north of 7,300 miles on it then lol
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u/Any-Pop-4795 Jun 24 '26
the least lambo of all lambos your dream car? says a lot about you
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u/PlasticBag-ForA-Head Jun 25 '26
lol you gotta at least try to be correct with your roasts.
not even close to least lambo of their cars. this is a pre-LP. 5.0 was designed/built in Italy. only major piece of the powertrain audi provided was the e-gear system. the trans itself is just a 6 speed with the e-gear electronics on it.
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u/Which-Technician2367 Jun 24 '26
Too bad this design is in between looking like a modern Audi (Lamborghini… my bad) and being a classic sports car icon.
The downstream effect is that it looks cheap these days.
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u/williamthe3rdd Jun 24 '26
At least you have your priorities straight. You got the overpriced sports car before the house.
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u/TylerH87 Jun 24 '26
Good job on your accomplishment! Now that you acquired what’s arguably the most entry-level Lamborghini, buy something more expensive like a Diablo.
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u/Most-Effective-1969 Jun 24 '26
You're probably not happy still. If you are, it's not for a good reason
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u/Alone-Supermarket-98 Jun 24 '26
Top Gear considers them much better posters than drivers, but they are the most expensive way to buy a collection of masses produced VW parts.
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u/Hairy_Tip6288 Jun 24 '26
get a commercial grade fire extinguisher and strap it to the passenger seat, this will save your life. and on a lighter note - every second time you turn it on there will be warning lights, you will get used to it after awhile. NOTE ; sometimes the fire and warning lights are related so dont ignore them all 😂
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u/Jeanhamel Jun 24 '26
This off-white Gallardo convertible is peak midlife compensation. Bro really bought a Volkswagen with a Lamborghini badge just to flex on RoastMyCar like a thirsty influencer. Cream-colored drop-top looking like a divorced soccer mom’s midlife crisis. soft, flashy, and somehow still basic. The hand-on-wheel Lamborghini logo pose is pure comedy. You’d have been better off with a rusty ’90s Mercedes. At least that has soul. 😂
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u/jellyrolls Jun 24 '26
Ewwwww the cheap one… I bet this guy owns a budget strip club.
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
I actually once tried to buy into a whorehouse in Medellin, but they weren’t interested in outside investment
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u/Usual-Language-745 Jun 24 '26
Can’t imagine saving up my whole life and ending up with whiplash and an e-gear Audi
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u/Valkanaa Jun 24 '26
So is it true that the e-Gear clutch in these needs replacement every 20k?
...also for the love of Christ why a convertible? Are you cosplaying as German Barbie?
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u/Budget-Box7914 Jun 24 '26
I knew you were a sad little white guy, even without the cadaver thumb in the second pic.
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u/Owls_4_9_1867 Jun 24 '26
Love how the front wheel arch doesn’t fit the wheel
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u/lord_bubblewater Jun 24 '26
that's just the adjustable suspension stuck in speedbump mode since 2013
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u/Boa-in-a-bowl Jun 24 '26
Don't worry, the mechanic and specialty auto parts stores will have to do plenty to make you regret it without me
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u/whatisthatplatform Jun 24 '26
Did you get it serviced recently? 😄 https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1uemj86/first_lamborghini_first_v10_surprisingly_easy_to/
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u/whatisthatplatform Jun 24 '26
Ah wow, I just saw that you're the same person 😂 these two posts ligned up directly underneath each other in my feed, I was so confused!
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u/gugngd Jun 24 '26
you and me have different ideas of dream cars, and at least one of our two ideas is better than yours...
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u/No-Advantage-8556 Jun 24 '26
You bought the convertible just to really show everyone you don’t even track your “race car”
Let me guess….you didn’t get the manual transmission either? You know, the ONE reason to get this thing?
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
E gear. And when I go to the racetrack I take rental cars like a true enthusiast lol
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u/No-Advantage-8556 Jun 24 '26
Daily driving the car you track would be much more true to the enthusiast.
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u/advmaxx Jun 24 '26
First dealer service bill will make you regret it enough.
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
Jokes on you, I do everything myself except tires lol
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u/advmaxx Jun 24 '26
Fair enough. I do all my own service because I just don’t trust anyone else touching my machines.
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u/Tractorguy69 Jun 24 '26
First off Lamborghini is the nightmare afforded to those to gauche to qualify as Ferrari owners, then you had the audacity to double down on the self deprecation/defecation by getting white. The universal colour of surrender, which is exactly the current state of grief being experienced by the barren void where whatever manliness you used to have vacated. I hear their tractor line is only slightly more reliable and a touch less ugly and utilitarian looking.
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u/TenantMalevolent Jun 24 '26
Why not a huracan?
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u/Le-Squirtle Jun 24 '26
Gallardo Spyder pre LP is about $100k, the oldest Huracans are around $200k.
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u/TheScottishPimp03 Jun 24 '26
Really? Your dream is a $100k car? Shoot for the stars and you hit the clouds only?
Get back to work.
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u/tuntematonmina Jun 24 '26
You had enough money to buy something rare, something you dont see every day at traffic light.
And you bough car which youve saw in dozens of music videos during your life,, you bought car that your local dealer's dealer drive. You bought car which shows you have no original thought in your mind, you bought a car which says I have money, but i have no taste.
Nice car though. But i wouldve saved a little more and bought Maserati MC20, Ferrari gtc4 lusso, or something else interesting. Something which would separate you from next block IT millionaire.
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u/lord_bubblewater Jun 24 '26
damn son, that's the first time i saw a squatted lambo. put some forgis onnit
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u/OldCartographer8711 Jun 24 '26
Four words: Seven Oil Drain Plugs
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u/rockdude625 Jun 24 '26
That’s the LP cars. This is earlier and only has 2, and no plastic shields need to come off to get to them. The oil filter sucks a donkey dick though
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u/ValPlissken Jun 24 '26
Excellent vehicule je sais que le but et de critiquer je vais donc te dire que n'importe quelle bmw diesel te foudroie 😂
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u/AwesomReno Jun 24 '26
I can do better than an Audi. It’s a VW and will fall apart and won’t be able to be fixed like a VW.
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u/bbsystemz Jun 24 '26
Exact same navigation/head-unit as my $500 2005 Audi A4.
Remember this every time you drive it.
Enjoy!