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Lamborghini Urus
Posted by in Lamborghini on June 24, 2011
The Lamborghini Italian automaker has accustomed us with fast and luxurious supercars released every year. And due to that we all hope that Lamborghini will manufacture another futuristic and unique car which will meet our expectations concerning the way forward for the vehicle industry. If in 2001 Lamborghini released its flagship dream car – the incredible Murcielago and after a short time it amazed us with the slightly smaller 2003 Gallardo and the special edition from the Reventon, the Italian company will require our breath away with another supercar waiting to be released.
After all the Lamborghini Urus, the brand new Lamborghini concept, considered to be the Murcielago’s replacement that will represent another page of the Lamborghini history. The Lamborghini Urus is really a four-door concept car likely to be a fierce competitor for the Porsche Panamera and also the Aston Martin Rapide. Its name will be “Urus” maintaining the Lamborghini tradition of naming their exquisite cars after famous bulls. This time the organization went with Urus which is a type of ox-like cattle that went extinct centuries ago.
The Lamborghini Urus may have a more aggressive design than the other Lamborgini models we are already “used to”. It will likely be manufactured entirely from carbon fibre, but there are several rumors too stating that aluminum might be a choice for some from the components. The maximum height is going to be around 114 cm and also the overall design will impress us using the popular Lamborghini doors that will be employed for this model. The Urus will have a carbon fiber chassis and can feature a lot of active aerodynamics. The taillight will feature LEDs, the design being inspired through the new taillight designs especially made for the Reventon.
The engine of the Lamborghini Urus is going to be placed in front from the driver behind the front axle. It will likely be equipped with a four wheel drive system. The Lamborghini officials asserted this supercar may have a 6.0 V12 engine which will produce 700 horsepower. Due to each one of these improvements, the Lamborghini Urus can compete from the fast Ferrari FX70 achieving a maximum speed of 300 km/h or being able to range from zero to 100 km/h in below 3.0 seconds. It’s possible that Audi will give the direct injection, twin turbocharged engine and I can truly realise why they want to be part of this unbelievable project. Read the rest of this entry »
Lamborghini Gallardo – The Raging Bull
Posted by in Lamborghini on June 24, 2011
Ferruccio Lamborghini was a very successful business man who owned various businesses although his main line of business was building and selling tractors. Ferruccio’s philosophy was to work hard in the morning and enjoy himself in the afternoon. One day while racing his Ferrari with his close friend Enzo Ferrari he told him that he didn’t quite think that his car was good enough! Enzo took it the wrong way and replied “what would you know about building sports cars, you only know how to build tractors”? Ferruccio felt insulted and decided to build himself his own sports cars. At first everybody laughed at his big ideas. But in 1963 he opened his state of the art factory in Sant’ Agata in Bolognese about 25km from Bologna.
Ferruccio Lamborghini’s love of bulls was so strong that he would often visit Don Eduardo Miura who was the owner of a famous bull ranch in the region of Seville and who bred several species. It was this passion that led him to name several of his cars after various breeds of bull which were reared on this ranch. In 1966 at The Geneva Motor Show an early prototype car called the P400S received so much attention that it went in to production under a different name as the Miura a 4 litre car with 280 bhp which is named after a savage breed of Bull bred by Don Eduardo Miura himself, and several variations followed including the SV Concept, Roadster, SV, and the Jota A replacement for the Miura was to become the Islero 400GT and Islero 400GTS a 2+2 coupe which was built between 1968 and 1969 and was named after the bull that killed the famous matador Manolete in 1947.
The Espada which is the Spanish word for Sword appeared in 1968 at the Geneva motor show and was designed by Marcello Gandini of Bertone the famous car designer who designed several cars for Lamborghini Other cars which had names related to bull fighting were the Jalpa which made its debut at the Geneva Auto Show in 1981 and was named after a breed of bull. In 1990 Diablo was named after a famous bull fight in 1869 when the Duke of Veragua’s raging bull was in an epic battle with El Chicorro. Read the rest of this entry »