Huh, then they are way more common in Europe. I even see them pretty much monthly in snowy Oslo, Norway during winter. Head to Italy and you see several each hour. Head to Monaco and you see one every street corner lol
Philadelphia isn't a rich city and Delaware is tiny.
The US is also huge. Most people with these that are actually driving them anywhere but to car shows are pretty much only going to be in places where flashy things are common. LA, Vegas, Miami, San Francisco, etc. I've seen plenty in those cities, but I don't think I've seen anything above a Porsche anywhere else. Except for the one Ferrari I saw parked at a Holiday Inn in Oklahoma City, which was from Florida... which is further away than Norway is long.
Edit: I get it. I didn't cover every major city in the US where they are common or where people have seen a nice car once. I have seen more expensive ($250k+) cars in Santa Fe than anywhere else I've had an extended stay. I obviously didn't cover everywhere. Holy crap.
Then the people down here commenting with "bro there is a green one in Philadelphia" just proves my point.
There is an absolute legend of a Ferrari owner that lives in podunk Wyoming, and people say they often see him parked on the Main Street of his little town, and he has over 150,000mi on it.
I was gonna comment somewhere above that I just saw a Ferrari on 95 a couple weeks back. Gotta be super wealthy to drive this time of year with all the salt on the roads.
There are two levels of wealth regarding super cars.
At one level, a man works for years to finally be able to buy the car of their dreams. Itās exactly what they wanted, the exact color. They even picked out the stitching on the leather. They spend Friday nights rubbing it with a diaper and it lives a comfortable life in a climate controlled garage, driven 500 miles per year to the golf course (but only on their Saturday morning tee time, not their Tuesday or Friday tee times) and Cars ānā Coffee events to chat with other men in cargo shorts who have similar cars.
Then there is another level of wealth where you street park it in the center of London outside of your penthouse like itās a fuckinā 15yr old Honda Fit with no hubcaps. If When someone keys it or steals the wheels, you just buy a new one.
I live in a small state capital, Boise, and we still get occasional stopovers with expensive sports cars. Iāve seen 2-3 here in Boise over the years. I think itās because weāre the only stopover between Seattle/Portland and Salt Lake. My guess is they were traveling around, stopping here, Salt Lake and then on to Denver or Las Vegas.
I live in. Super tiny farm town north of Sacramento. We have a super rich dude who invented some part or all of something related to how they are able to shake walnut trees and catch the nuts. He bought his wife a lambo for their anniversary like 15-20 years ago. Havenāt ever seen another besides theirs lol
im from boise and lived in slc & was gonna say i dont think iāve ever seen a nice car like that in either of those places, you need a car for the weather so its subaru central hahahaha
Yeah the supercars are more evenly spread across Western Europe with concentrated areas though for example around racetracks or areas like the MĆ¼nsterland or Munich/Hamburg while the US have them concentrated in big cities and thinly spread out over barely populated or rural areas. Big luxury cars regardless of age and remaining worth are most commonly found in Eastern Europe.
There's special parking spots at the malls here in Bangkok for people with cars like this (out from so the mall can show off how rich its customers are) and there's always one or two sitting out front.
But.... lots of people with way way way way way way way too much money come here to hide.
When I lived in Hong Kong about 20 years ago, I looked down from our apartment (21st floor) and saw about 30 fancy sports cars in the parking lot of a fancy restaurant. Hubby took the toddler down to have a look. They were Ferraris and it was some kind of a group meetup/gathering. He said quite a few of them were flown in from countries in the region. I thought Hong Kong Island was a weird place to have their gathering as you canāt really go zipping around super fast. Mainland Hong Kong made more sense to me.
My friend and I were in Merchantville, New Jersey, a subset of Pennsauken in Camden County, tripping on acid when we saw this amazing white spaceship parked outside of the candy store. I had never seem a Countach before, not even on TV. The guy came out out a 3' tall chocolate Easter bunny and rotated the passenger door open to strap it in.
He didn't so much pull out as launch down the street, hitting 30mph in 2 seconds. "Did we really just see that?!"
Go a little west of philly to Lancaster, and they're all over the damn place. My brother in law has one, and he has 4-5 friends that have one (one of them has several now), and there's a huge group of guys that get together semi frequently.
I get it. There is a car museum in a small town in Atlanta suburbs. It does not have newer cars, but they have car shows, but it is just a cool museum. The car shows bring in amazingly beautiful cars.
Even within cities. LA has so many full on cities within its county borders. If you go to Inglewood you probably won't see any, no matter how long you hang out. If you go to Rodeo Drive you'll see as many $300,000 cars as you'll see normal everyday cars. In San Diego you'll see a super car commonly enough, but go up to La Jolla and you'll see them every few blocks. There's even a stretch of road with a Bugatti, Lamborghini, and McLaren dealership all back to back to back, with a classic car dealer not much farther up the street.
I mean... barely tho...
from wiki
The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles
With Alaska and Hawaii its 3,809,525 square miles
Europe covers approx. 10,186,000 square kilometres (3,933,000 sq mi)
no... bc hes comparing it to tiny cities/states (which comprise the nation). JUXTAPOSITION. see how that word is now obviously more important than the other? its a sign to learn and internalize that word.
yes it is dude... hes talking about the frequency of finding cars... if you're in a less populated area... or in a place of low gdp per capita... youre probably not going to find the car... hes using a simplified codex of AMERICA to communicate that idea...
...as a response to how prevalent said cars are in Europe. And, you won't believe this. Europe ALSO has a variance in both GDP and population density!!!! And the point of bringing up the US to communicate this idea still remains an absolute mystery to anyone with any sense.
I think youre missing the point...
Europe is highly developed with very low rural communities. Most of Europe is STACKED. super high dense, even their 'rural' communities have 5-10x most of USA's rural population density. Most of USA is not stacked, its rural af.
From Wiki
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area
Rural Europe on the other hand is 80%
If we take the inverse
3% of USA is non-rural
20% of Europe is non-rural
that's a 6.6x multiple of USA. Which is NUTTTY!
think of Germany. 85m people living in a tiny state... its 50% of the size of Texas. which has a population of 35m people.
when people think of the USA they might think of cities, but the vast majority is rural super depopulated areas
I see them in Tampa area on the regular... probably one every week or two. Depends on where you drive, but they aren't that uncommon. And a few in the neighborhoods around me too.
I can take photos of a lambo, ferrari, rolls, benley, and g wagon on all the same floor tomorrow. Houston. Those cities you mentioned are by far not the only ones with flashy cars.
There are a ton of super cars in Orlando. I think any city with a population of over a million in a large populated state is going to have a lot of super cars.
Yes, because they are made in Italy and not in the USA so every Lamborghini must be shipped by boat to the USA which is expensive and there isn't much supply in the USA. Prices in the USA are like 33% higher at least.
So do a lot of European brands, even ones with significantly higher volume like BMW. They have a plant in South Carolina, but they only manufacture some of the SUV's. Every 5, 6, 7 and 8 series BMW in the US was built in Europe, as well as the M trims of the 3/4 series and all the M SUV's.
Also, anecdotally, I think American culture probably views Lamborghinis as overly ostentatious whereas I bet Italians look at Lamborghinis as a source of pride since they're Italian made. There are certainly cultural factors.
I would argue that's irrelevant because the discussion was around cultural interests, not affordability. There are far more than 3000 people in the US and 409 people in Italy who can afford to buy a new Lamborghini, but only that many from each wanted them enough to do it and that's what I was responding to.
Also, anecdotally, I think American culture probably views Lamborghinis as overly ostentatious whereas I bet Italians look at Lamborghinis as a source of pride since they're Italian made. There are certainly cultural factors.
You can't ignore affordability as a factor. Sales numbers only tell you the cultural interest among those able to purchase, which is a smaller percentage of the total population in Italy than in the US. Not accounting for relative wealth is dishonest.
People donāt drive them in the snow. If you have a Lamborghini you have at least one daily driver. They sit in the garage when itās salty or snowy.
We see them a lot in Toronto/GTA. Iām in Markham and I would call a sighting a daily occurrence. But itās super cool that this group came together to make a kids birthday brighter.
I went to Monaco. There was a Ferrari event going on. Probably over 100 of them parked left and right on the same street. People were stopping to get a picture of MY car as I was driving by. It's a 15 year old Dacia Logan.
Never believed the Monaco stuff until I went there last year, it's actually crazy seeing some of those cars there. Just a constant stream of lambo, Ferrari, porsche, Bentley, Rolls'. Great trip if you like cars, especially the museum.
Yeah it's great! me and my sister walked it all haha, way way longer than you realise, the tunnel is over in a few seconds for F1 but it's bloody massive
So you just named two very expensive areas and where they are made. But yeah, all over Europe.
They are fairly common in Los Angeles, Los Vegas and Miami.
The little town I grew up in with a population of less than 5,000 had 3.
Thereās around 6 in the area I currently live in. With two being in the garage of my neighbor. (His and hers).
So it depends on where you live.
But even so there are less in Europe than the United States. The US has is the largest Lamborghini market in the world. More than three times the number of Lamborghinis are imported into the United States per year than are sold across Europe. So they arenāt more common there. And spotting them in the US is dependent upon where you live.
Yeah, even in places where supercars have no business, like Rome-center, with sanpietrini and impossible pavements, I see at least a Lamborghini every week, stuck in traffic.
Yeah I literally see them almost everyday here in Cambridge UK. It's almost a bit weird to me how many there seem to be here, It's definitely taken away from the allure a bit
I see them occasionally when I'm in southern California. I'm only 180 miles from LA (a fairly short distance by American standards) and you very rarely see them on the freeway up here. I expect a Lamborghini isn't the most comfortable thing to drive from LA to San Francisco in.
When I lived in Germany I'd see one every time I went to the big shopping boulevard. Not as common in USA but also not that rare in my experience. My small(ish) midwest hometown of 100k had 2 local lamborghinis and a Ferrari growing up
They don't manufacture them in the US, same with Ferraris and Porsches, so it becomes very expensive to get one here because they are all imported. Like double the price of what they would be in Europe.
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u/dont_trip_ Feb 19 '25
Huh, then they are way more common in Europe. I even see them pretty much monthly in snowy Oslo, Norway during winter. Head to Italy and you see several each hour. Head to Monaco and you see one every street corner lol