A Lamborghini super car has burst into flames and been destroyed in Nanjing in what has become something of an annual ritual for the iconic Italian brand, with one car each year for the last 4 years now having suffered the same fate.
The incident took place Sunday, 13 September, in Nanjing’s Jiangbei New Area, near Aolin Plaza, where Puzhu Zhong Lu passes under a railway line, not far from the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.
At about midday, the blue Lamborghini, driving in a westerly direction, suddenly burst into flames. Fire fighters rushed to the scene, but were too late to save the car worth millions of renminbi, it having been burnt beyond recognition, reduced virtually to cinders.
No one was injured in the blaze, reports the Yangtze Evening News.
Sunday’s incident, moreover, continues a bizarre trend; one Lamborghini super car has in fact spontaneously combusted each year since 2017.
Last February, a Lamborghini Gallardo went up in smoke near Birmingham in the UK, just 1 hour after the owner picked the car up from a service at Lamborghini Birmingham, at a cost of some £10,000 (¥87,000).
In the American city of Boston the year prior, in October 2018, it was a Lamborghini convertible that erupted in flames in the city’s Copley Square. Local reporters said they smelled the smoke from two blocks away.
Finally, back in August of 2017 in the USA’s California, a $200,000 (¥1.36 million) Lamborghini took only 10 minutes to be completely destroyed after going on fire near Main Street and Jamboree Road in the city of Irvine.
While there are many more examples of super-car fires, these are normally the result of accidents, high-speed chases, or just over-zealous, inexperienced owners. Spontaneous combustion, on the other hand, is an altogether much rarer event. With Sunday’s fire in Nanjing, Lamborghini now has a somewhat unwelcome tradition in the making.
