Regular guy reveals how he managed to own his dream Lamborghini Aventador for a whole year and what the daily costs were like

A regular man has revealed how he managed to own his dream car – a Lamborghini Aventador – and given us a deep dive into the daily costs over the span of a year.

Craig is a former welder who had long desired to own an Aventador of his own.

Now that he had one, he was opening up about the costs that came with owning a supercar.

How had he managed to own such a high-end car on an average way? Let’s take a closer look.

There’s no denying the prestige that comes with the Lamborghini Aventador

If you’ve got yourself a Lamborghini, you’re already handling a car that comes with a truckload of aura.

But an Aventador? That really is kicking things up a notch.

Whether it’s going head-to-head with a Hyundai Ioniq 5 in a drag race or being fitted with an F1 race exhaust, this is a car that knows how to command attention.

And it certainly did an exceptional job of that when driving through the streets of one Indian city [pictured below].

But with such prestige, comes a heavy price.

Depending on the variant, an Aventador can fetch anywhere from $397,500 to $600,000.

Those don’t sound like prices that the Average Joe could swing.

But one self-declared ‘regular guy’ is explaining how he managed to own one for a year.

How did Craig get his hands on an Aventador?

Craig may not be the car’s current owner, but he did own it for a year.

Interviewed by YouTube channel REPerformance UK, he gave some insight into how he could afford it.

“I was a welder fabricator at the time of owning this car… the finance on that was more than our mortgage,” Craig admitted.

Before he’d owned it, the supercar had been owned for 5 to 6 years by a 21-year-old whose father had bought it for him.

To afford the car, he traded in his Audi R8 and received $72,823 (£55,000), which he put towards the deposit on the Aventador.

Splitting the monthly finance payment of $1,456 with his partner, he also found that insurance was surprisingly low at $1,059 a year.

But how did daily running costs look?

The daily costs that come with owning a Lamborghini Aventador

Unsurprisingly, fuel proved to be the biggest daily expense.

With the car averaging 150 to 170 miles on it 90-liter tank, this soon sent prices on an upward trajectory.

Commuting to work and sharing rides with family and friends played its part too.

For between 600 to 700 miles a month, he was spending between $929 to $955 on gas.

“All my friends drove this so many times… We used to have a few friends come around on a Tuesday night for a pizza evening, and we’d just finish eating pizzas and we’d just go out in the car and literally burn it up and down our local link road for a few hours,” he recalled.

Fortunately, maintenance was generally easy to deal with, besides the airbag light or the engine management light occasionally coming on.

Nothing mechanically broke and that’s what counts here.

Bear in mind, this year of ownership came between the end of 2021 and 2022.

Whether this kind of deal would be possible now with higher interest rates and rising finance costs isn’t entirely clear.

“The only killer now is with the interest rates on finance, you’ll be paying a lot more, a lot more for the same car,” Craig said.

“When you look at the prices of these things now, how they’ve gone… you look at SVs and things like that, like they’ve doubled in like the last 6 months.”

Timeline of Lamborghini Aventador