€5m car for Malta fund-raising show
The Lamborghini Reventon
A €5 million Lamborghini Reventon, one of only 20 in the world, will be the main attraction in a supercar paddock during this year’s fund raising event Paqpaqli għall-Istrina, which will be held on December 12.
The current Vodafone McLaren Mercedes formula 1 racing car will also be on display.
Paqpaqli għall-Istrina is supported by Middlesea Insurance and Transport Malta.
The yearly fund raising motoring activity Paqpaqli għall-Istrina will be held at the Malta International Airport including the Lufthansa Technik Malta hangars.
Lamborghini will also be sending to Malta the Murcielago Roadster and during the event can be used to collect funds for l-Istrina by taking passionate motorists for a ride on the airport taxiway.
More attractions will include the latest supercar by Mercedes Benz, the SLS AMG, which has also been made available purposely for the event through local agent Kinds.
BMW Group Malta will be bringing to Malta the world streetbike freestyle rider and four-times World Stunt Riding Champion, Chris Pfeiffer, who will be giving shows throughout the day.
These are just a few of the attractions during Paqpaqli għall-Istrina, which this year is being organised by the Malta Community Chest Fund in collaboration with Tonio Darmanin producer of the television programme Paqpaq.
All the motoring clubs in Malta have been invited to participate in this event either for the static show or the action arenas. An appeal is being made to owners of particular vehicles, being either classics or exotic, who are not members of any club to contact the organisers to display their vehicle during the day.
The event opens to the public at 9am and will also be a fun day out for all the family, apart from motoring enthusiasts. A kids zone will be set up and a food court will serve dishes throughout the day.
The event will be split into four zones. The area directly in front of the Lufthansa Technik hangars will host a static display. Three different tracks will be set up for motorsports enthusiast to practice their hobby including offroading, sprints, drifting and circuit events.
Entrance to the public will be against a donation of €5. Entrance to the show will be from Gate 9 accessed from Luqa Road and turning into Ħal Farruġ Road and driving towards Ta’ Kandja. Public parking will be available both inside the venue and at the Montekristo complex.
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A Mifsud
Nov 25th 2010, 22:21
If you are surprised by anyone spending 1 million on a car, what about half a million for a NUMBER PLATE!
http://cars.uk.msn.com/features/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=155320026&page=20
omar buhagiar
Nov 25th 2010, 18:59
The reventon is a supercar and limited to just 20 models but i don't know from where you found the 5million value.
Kenneth Zammit
Nov 25th 2010, 14:38
Dear Martin WC, through your link I still dont see the 5m mentioned anywhere.
So to me it seems like that who wrote this article or who passed the info just wants to create sensanalisation, which I dont think there was the need for!
The car costs alot without the need of having to multiply the figure!
Kenneth Zammit
Nov 24th 2010, 14:57
Lamborghini Reventón costs one million euros, not 5!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Revent%C3%B3n
please correct this article.
Ryan Gatt
Nov 24th 2010, 16:13
Yes, but thanks to our current Registration Tax the total cost will be well above €1m and very close to €5m.
Martin Wood Cassar
Nov 25th 2010, 06:53
Kenneth on wikipedia there is the base price. The roadster has a different price from the coupe. Look: http://www.imaginelifestyles.com/luxuryliving/2010/02/21-million-dollar-lamborghini-reventon-roadster-delivered-singapore .
O R Busuttil
Nov 24th 2010, 14:16
Why only one day? Why not the whole weekend? It will be hell to park, hell to enter, and hell to see the show decently. Absolutely hell to take a decent photo. And all the activities that they said they will do? all in one day??
A Attard
Nov 24th 2010, 12:30
Mhux ta b'xejn il PARK & RIDE sa jghamluha bi hlas.
beppe pisani
Nov 24th 2010, 11:07
FIVE MILLION?????!!!!.........FROM WIKI..............."The Lamborghini Reventón (Spanish pronunciation: [reβenˈton]) is a mid-engine sports car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. It is the most powerful and expensive Lamborghini road car to date, costing one million euros (~US$1.25 million, or ~£840,000).[1] The official press release stated that only 20 vehicles would be released to the public,[2] with one additional car (marked as 0/20) produced for the Lamborghini Museum.[3] Although early rumors indicated the total number would actually be 100,[2][4][5] each Reventón is clearly stamped with its number in the sequence of 20 between the driver's and passenger's seats."
Omar Green Gauchi
Nov 24th 2010, 19:54
In the following article it is 2.1 million Beppe: http://www.imaginelifestyles.com/luxuryliving/2010/02/21-million-dollar-lamborghini-reventon-roadster-delivered-singapore. Different editions/specifications different prices
Pule' Carmel
Nov 24th 2010, 00:14
There are cars which, if you just ask the company/agent, " how much do they cost, or how many miles to the gallon?" then they know straight away that you just cannot afford them!
The son of a very very rich sheik was in England attending a University and he wrote to his father," Dad I am very very embarrassed going to university with my gold and diamond trimmed Lamborghini Reventon, when all students, lecturers and professors use a train. The rich father wrote back," Son, in order that you do not feel embarrassed nor humiliated, I am sending you £1,000,000,000 ( one thousand million pounds) to go and buy yourself a train." It is said that Onassis, the Greek Tycoon had some very expensive selections on his yacht Christina. The soft leather covers on the bar stools were made from the skins of the reproductive parts of a male whale, and it was one of his favourite jokes to inform the ladies and the gentlemen on what they were sitting! Normally, as he put it, the gentlemen normally moved off, but the ladies heartely laughed it off, and remained sitting! Some rich people have funny, expensive sense of humour!
Kenneth Curmi
Nov 24th 2010, 11:07
yup! and people die of hunger! hahaha!
(now that's what really makes their "sense of humour" expensive)
Pule' Carmel
Nov 24th 2010, 17:02
Thank God there are rich people and poor people around, for that keeps a stable situation.
It is normal for any government to keep the unemployment rate between 4 to 11% as anything away from that is a very unstable economy. In the very basic people requirements in society there are Rich people, Working people and Clowns to keep them happy!
And to end this rich and poor behaviour, Where would the poor be without the rich ?Many poor would be poorer as jobs will be scarer.
As far as our situation goes, " If begging be your lot , knock on a rich man's door. He may let you polish his Lamborghini and in return, pay you , give you a meal, or shelter. It is no good going to the poor for they , like you will not have any either and will fight for any they receive from the charities we send them, and I am not sure it arrives or get to them. So Rich and poor relations are as normal as nature meant it to be.
Pule' Carmel
Nov 24th 2010, 17:30
It is interesting that This Lamborghini coming to Malta is being brought over in order to collect money for the needy. Interesting enough midde class people who can give, will not give freely for nothing in return. Even giving to Strina, those who can, did expect to win presents, or be entertained by the show. When this Lamborghini comes along, people will help the poor much more if you let them ride or drive the Lamborgini. All we do in life is for selfish reasons even charity!!! ( so that we may go to heaven, and that is selfish is it not!!)
Once Abraham Lincoln was arguing with his secretary that all we do we do it for selfish reasons. On the way, the president walked in the mud and assisted to release a piglet caught in thorns, where by the secretary told him "Now that was not selfish was it?" and The President of America said, " Yes it was, now I can go home and get my sleep, for if I did not help that little creature, my sleep would be heavily disturbed with remorse that when I could assist, I did not!"
Kenneth Curmi
Nov 24th 2010, 23:12
Oh yes indeed. And thank god, perhaps, that you are not one of those "useful" poor people, right?
Pule' Carmel
Nov 25th 2010, 15:27
Of course I was one of those poor usefulpeople. I was born during a killerwar in a shelter. My mother had no kitchen,no toilets and no toilet paper,nobathrooms. To feed us she used to make me keep some chickens and rabbits. When I went to England, out of a weekly wage of £4.50 , £3. went for my accomodation and £1.50 to live on. I lived with poor people in England! Then I met harderworking people and so I realised that I had to try harder. I took part time jobs,cooking and washing my own clothes and overcoming the "poor man's lonlines in a useful manner"I went to university, payed my own fees , paid for the rent, and upkeep. Some of my friend suffered hunger, thankGod I did not, thanks to Fish and chips and a good English breakfast.Out of the little I had I bought shoes for poor foreign children inEngland whose parents were poorer than I wasatthatstage.Slowly I slid throughPhysical poverty line into a reasonable existance! evolving slowly through hard work and a non socialistic and non,communistic and non,charitabilistic belief. I made my own fishing rod and now I fish to eat and sharealittle with the usefulpoor.
Kenneth Curmi
Dec 9th 2010, 21:52
yes well unfortunately some people are so poor, much - much poorer than you ever were in fact - that they cannot afford to eat enough so that they can one day "evolve". they just die at a young age.
oh well, as long as they are useful to you, who suffered a lot during childhood...
C Galea
Nov 23rd 2010, 20:44
5 million for a new car 30 million for a used car http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/07/worlds-most-expensive-car_n_568435.html crazy world
Joe Busuttil
Nov 23rd 2010, 20:34
Will our own home grown expensive car be on show too?
James Green
Nov 23rd 2010, 18:33
I'd hate to think what the farce called 'registration tax' would be on the Lambo Reventon!
Anybody?
John Borg
Nov 23rd 2010, 20:14
not exactly but for sure it will have many zeros!
JAFarrugia
Nov 24th 2010, 16:30
If you could afford a Reventon you wouldn't really care and would fly past those cash cow speed cameras with your middle finger high in the air.
Jean Paul Saliba
Nov 23rd 2010, 17:45
I think it drives on its own!
Darren Bonnici
Nov 23rd 2010, 15:29
Hello I don't drive but I'm willing to attend this spectacular show.. My question is can I get the opportunity to ride with the Lamborghini and the Mercedes drivers?
T.Scerri
Nov 23rd 2010, 16:45
in your dreams my friend :)
T.Scerri
Nov 23rd 2010, 15:14
€5 million for a car...Everybody was created equal..seems that some are more equal than others
S.Fenech
Nov 23rd 2010, 15:42
In this case, just 20 equal ones ;-)