You know how YouTubers do it. They buy a supercar, film how they tear it to pieces, upload the footage on YouTube, and then sit and watch money pouring in. Here is one of that breed, dropping a Lamborghini Gallardo into the world’s largest shredder.
He calls himself MrBeast. His real name is James Stephen Donaldson, and he owns the second largest subscriber base on YouTube and the most for an individual, 182 million subscribers. Every video uploaded on the platform is synonymous with a gazillion views. His YouTube channel is a money-making machine. The latest video that he uploaded has already been watched by 90 million people and counting.
People wanted to see how a Lamborghini Gallardo (which might be a Superleggera version, considering the rear wing) goes into the largest shredder in the world.
Dropped from a platform, the supercar seems to fight back, dancing up on the teeth of the shredder. That is only for a little while. It is just a matter of time until, on the other side of the destroyer, small pieces of metal and carbon fiber in black and red come out.
The engine bay is empty, so it is obvious that the car was decommissioned and was to end up in the shredder anyway.
There is another Lamborghini Gallardo that he tries to destroy. This time, with tanks shooting at the car. But Adam has 48 hours to build a fortress of stacked old cars, five water basins, and sand-filled cinder block walls. If he wins, he can keep it.
Two days later, the tanks fire, and the ammunition goes inches from the Gallardo, but eventually fails to destroy the line of defense and the Lambo itself. So Adam ends up keeping the car and spares it the destruction. That is the Lamborghini that had a happy ending, because the one that went into the shredder is in pieces. Literally.
When Lamborghini introduced the Gallardo, back in 2003, they did not think for a single second that someone might through one of the examples they made into a shredder. In production for a whole decade, the supercar soon became the best-selling model in Lambo's portfolio, with 14,022 examples built and sold during its production run. Now, the company's best-seller is the Urus SUV.
Designed by Fabrizio Giugiaro at the Italdesign studio in Moncalieri, Italy, the Gallardo was available as a coupe and convertible. It was powered by a 5.0-liter mid-mounted V12 (a 5.2-liter after the facelift), mated to either the six-speed Graziano manual or the six-speed e-gear Graziano automated manual.
The 5.0-liter V12 generated 493 horsepower (500 PS) and 376 lb-ft (510 Nm) of torque. The 5.2-liter V12 that came after the facelift brought along 513 horsepower (520 PS) and the same amount of torque.
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