---
title: "Watch a Lamborghini Gallardo Burn to a Crisp in the Middle of a Seattle Street"
description: "Celebrating Starbucks' new Extra Dark Italian Roast blend."
date: "2017-08-02"
modified: "2017-08-03"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/13160/watch-a-lamborghini-gallardo-burn-to-a-crisp-in-the-middle-of-a-seattle-street"
categories:
  - "Lamborghini News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "fire"
  - "Gallardo"
  - "Lamborghini"
  - "lp 570-4"
  - "Seattle"
  - "Supercar"
  - "superleggera"
---

# Watch a Lamborghini Gallardo Burn to a Crisp in the Middle of a Seattle Street

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/08/lambo-fire.png>)
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Picture it: you're cruising through town in a $200,000 Lambo with your friend, blasting some sick beats and enjoying your fiscal superiority, when your back begins to feel a little warm. Well, it *is* hot in Seattle this week. [But suddenly, you smell it.](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7911/watch-a-modified-lamborghini-gallardo-completely-engulfed-in-flames>)

 *Smoke.* What do you do?

Unfortunately, that hypothetical question crossed over into reality for the driver of this Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera this weekend, and right in the middle of [downtown Seattle, Washington](<https://www.thedrive.com/design/4436/design-amazon-building-treehouses-for-employees>) to boot. What started out as a puff of smoke graduated to a raging conflagration that consumed the entire car in less than ten minutes—and the whole thing was caught in glorious HD video on fortuitously-placed security camera.

The footage shows traffic stopped at a light on the corner of 7th Avenue and Union Street, about a block away from Seattle's massive convention center and less than a quarter of a mile from the city's famed Pike Place Fish Market. The white Lamborghini pulls into view, but remains stopped as the light turns green. That's when the driver hops out and opens the engine cover, and both smoke and some flames are immediately apparent.

Things go downhill from there. The man's passenger eventually bails as well (though only after an unnerving amount of time spent sitting in a car that's *literally on fire*), and after a handheld fire extinguisher fails to do the trick, the pair resign themselves to watching the supercar [burn like kindling](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/12514/sadness-is-a-burning-lamborghini-countach>) from across the street.

After a few more minutes, the Seattle Fire Department shows up and takes care of business, but it's clear the Gallardo is completely destroyed. In a final indignity, a firefighter rips off the previously-undamaged hood to check for any hidden hotspots.

https://youtube.com/embed/oq6gyUovEJU

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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