Gamer Goes Mental, Turns His Actual Lambo into an Xbox Controller

A Forza Motorsport 7 fan who happens to own a Lamborghini Aventador has gone one step closer to insanity: POG took his supercar and turned it into a giant Xbox controller for the racing game. A video shows him driving to get a copy of the game in his Lambo, parking it in his garage, and using lots of computers and cables to turn the car into a controller.

Ordinarily, the people playing sim racers like Gran Turismo or Forza aspire to drive the exotic cars they see on the screen, or perhaps even own one. In this instance, we pretty much have the exact opposite – an exotic car owner aspiring to turn his very real Lamborghini Aventador into a gigantic Xbox One game controller. Why on earth would anybody do such a thing? Because silly, it’s as close as you can get to driving an actual Lamborghini in Forza Motorsport 7.

Haha, I was thinking of doing the same yesterday for Project Cars 2.
Only mine would cost considerably less, it would be an un roadworthy car bought cheaply.
Use the real steering wheel connected to the motor of a decent PC wheel and hook the pedals up too.
The gear change will need a bit more work to give it some resistance after disconnecting from the gearbox and more sensors transferring.
A mental seat shaker attached to the car will get the bumps/bangs, or even 6 shakers for 5.1 directional shakes.
The last mod would be a fuck off huge window in the side of my house so I can see my projector screen lol.

I think I'd rather take the real car out on the real road to feel the real engine and real g-forces. I can understand if he had a beater but it's a damn Lambo.

That tends to get you arrested when you arrange a mass street race.

Nenu said:

That tends to get you arrested when you arrange a mass street race.

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Sounds like you are doing it wrong.

Too often

his inanity makes me look normal lol

Sooo....Why would you just not drive the real thing? And using it as a controller for the xbox version? All that money and not even the PC version.

I always wonder about this.

To me, the appeal of driving games instantly evaporated as soon as I was old enough to drive an actual car.

You'd think someone who can afford a real supercar, and presumably can take it on the track would have no interest in driving games at all.

Since this isn't the guy's only super car he likely built this for the days where weather or time don't permit going to race on a track, as well as just to say he had one.

so he has what could be argued as the ultimate sim setup, yet it is shown racing in 3rd person ???

Zarathustra[H] said:

I always wonder about this.

To me, the appeal of driving games instantly evaporated as soon as I was old enough to drive an actual car.

You'd think someone who can afford a real supercar, and presumably can take it on the track would have no interest in driving games at all.

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I like some driving games for the competitive nature and it's A LOT cheaper than a full set of race slicks/pads for a weekend....But something tells me money for that is not an issue for him and if I had the cash to do it every weekend, I would, screw a racing game when I have the real thing and the money to do it.

You do this with an inexpensive car! Not a Lamborghini !!

It wasn't even done with original Gallardo. Aventadors are A LOT more expensive than a Gallardo which would have served this purpose just fine.

Well, at least he's not wasting all that money he obviously has...

Ah, first world solutions to the pressing issues of our day!

watched the video.... so there's a CAT5 ethernet port under the dash in a lambo? .. ive never driven one.. so i have no idea what hes plugin that network cable into

Zarathustra[H] said:

I always wonder about this.

To me, the appeal of driving games instantly evaporated as soon as I was old enough to drive an actual car.

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That's a strange logic.... did you also stop playing first person shooters when you became old enough to legally purchase a firearm?

You'd think someone who can afford a real supercar, and presumably can take it on the track would have no interest in driving games at all.

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I agree with preferring to be on a REAL track. Still this has to be a blast for his friends.....

Lambo guy: Hey, I got a new race car video game, want to try it out?

Friend: Sure that sounds fun!

Lambo guy: Right this way

<opens the door to the game room>

Friend: OH. MY. GOD.

Hopefully it is easily reversible

Jesus......People with too much time and money on their hands. Must be nice.

BlueFireIce said:

Sooo....Why would you just not drive the real thing? And using it as a controller for the xbox version? All that money and not even the PC version.

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Maybe he went broke buying the car, costs a lot of money to have the car shipped to tracks, pay the track fees and track prep a car. This also prevents him from wrecking the ride, which can really rack up the $.

RayderR6 said:

Maybe he went broke buying the car, costs a lot of money to have the car shipped to tracks, pay the track fees and track prep a car. This also prevents him from wrecking the ride, which can really rack up the $.

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You don't ship a stock street car to a track, and there are tracks all over, it's not like you are traveling across the country to get to a track. And if you went broke buying the car you can't even afford consumables, SELL THE CAR.

If they ever, please don't, do a remake of 'The Toy' this would be a no-brainer for the kid.

BlueFireIce said:

You don't ship a stock street car to a track, and there are tracks all over, it's not like you are traveling across the country to get to a track. And if you went broke buying the car you can't even afford consumables, SELL THE CAR.

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Maybe you don't, I know people who do, they're called Track Days and people with money ship their cars there, fly in and play or some bring it in on a toyhauler, some just drive it there. A stock Lambo is already fast, make it track ready and you have a race car for all practical purposes. I have more "track ready" experience on motorcycles, it involves taping up your lights, installing wires to keep some parts with the bike if you wreck, this way they don't have to clean up too much when you spill. On cars, I know that roll bars need to be on convertibles before running, depending on the track, you may need specific rubber to run. You're not seeing the forest through the trees bro, he's got all those tracks in the game, those tracks are all over the world. Why lash out! This is how (maybe) he enjoys the experience.

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Maybe you don't, I know people who do, they're called Track Days and people with money ship their cars there, fly in and play or some bring it in on a toyhauler, some just drive it there. A stock Lambo is already fast, make it track ready and you have a race car for all practical purposes. I have more "track ready" experience on motorcycles, it involves taping up your lights, installing wires to keep some parts with the bike if you wreck, this way they don't have to clean up too much when you spill. On cars, I know that roll bars need to be on convertibles before running, depending on the track, you may need specific rubber to run. You're not seeing the forest through the trees bro, he's got all those tracks in the game, those tracks are all over the world. Why lash out! This is how (maybe) he enjoys the experience.

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People don't ship cars, if they are a team and traveling to an event, they have their own hauler etc and if you are tight on cash as you suggest you are just going to drive to a local track. You say hes doing this to save money, but then make any attempt to go to a real track the most expensive way possible by picking some far off exotic track and having the (street) car shipped to it. Track days you go to a local track, not flying across the country, you only travel like that for competition. This is also not a track car, it's a totally stock car that can drive to the track just fine. A track ready lambo will not fill all practical purposes, that or you understand nothing about racing classes. Installing safety wire is not for crash events, it is to show bolts and other items have been properly torqued and keeps bolts and nuts from backing out due to the kind of vibration, heat and use they see on the track, having a bolt come off and be a hazard on the track or hit someone. In a crash that little bit of wire is not going to hold anything together, sorry. Additional roll bars are not always needed in convertibles, this is totally event type and track related. The tracks are nothing, the experience of driving a real car is the point, and if you want to experience the tracks but went broke getting the car, you dont have the money to make this setup, and you could sell the car, get a full blown track day car, truck and trailer and lots of consumables and travel to every single one of the tracks for what you paid for the lambo, and with a starting price of $400k for the lambo the track day cars in that sort of budget would run circles around it.

Why you suggest this must be because he doesn't have the money to and is now broke, I have no idea, nothing said even suggests that from the link. Considering he has two other just as expensive supercars. The more likely reason is that hes never been on a track and is only good at driving in video games.

Quite pedestrian.. this dinkus installed doom on his porche and set the inputs up so to play it he had to actually be driving.