Any time you get to watch a mini-documentary about one of your favorite automakers in the world, it’s probably worth dropping whatever it is you’re doing to spend a few minutes of your time watching the mini-documentary. In this case, we bring you a four-part episode of Team Lamborghini Muenchen’s exploits during the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo at the “Norisring” racetrack in Germany.
Driving a Lamborghini Gallardo GTR Racecar, the team, which is comprised of veteran race car drivers Jens Klingmann, Maximilian Göetz and Achim Winter, managed to exceed everyone’s expectations by posting better-than-expected results with Klingmann winning all three races despite having never driven the car before. Goetz and Winter also racked up their own impressive results with the two bagging third place in Race 3.
Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo – what is it all about? Racing of course! but there is another aspect about this trophy you do not know about! During each race an impressive number of supercars, expensive and exclusive supercars, are being killed!
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It seems that the latest fun in Los Angeles is chasing cars with helicopter. A Lamborghini Gallardo and a Gallardo Spyder are being chased on the Pacific Coast highway. Why? Because they were bad guys!
Lamborghini presents the ultimate driving machine among open-top two-seaters – the Reventón Roadster is a sports car of breathtaking fascination, menacing power and uncompromising performance. The 6.5 liter twelve-cylinder generates 493 kW (670 PS), catapulting the Roadster from 0 to 100 Km/h (0 to 62 mph) in 3.4 seconds and onwards to a top speed of 330 KM/h (205 mph). The open-top Reventón is not only one of the fastest, but also one of the most exclusive cars in the world – Lamborghini has limited the series.
The Lamborghini Reventón is not destined to remain a one-off. Less than 20 Lamborghini friends and collectors will be able to own this extraordinary car and, naturally, enjoy the incomparable pleasure of driving it.
Each Reventón Roadster will be sold for 1.1 Million Euro (without taxes). Deliveries will begin October 2009.
“The Reventón is the most extreme car in the history of the brand,” comments Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. “The new Roadster adds an extra emotional component to our combined technological expertise – it unites superior performance with the sensual fascination of open-top driving.” The Reventón Coupé was presented at the 2007 IAA in Frankfurt and was sold out immediately.
He has long been revered as one of the many legends surrounding the world’s most uncompromising sports car brand – Valentino Balboni, a remarkable test driver with his own personal cult status. Automobili Lamborghini now presents a model in his honour and bearing his name – the Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni.
The latest version of the Gallardo, Lamborghini’s most successful model of all time – overall, more than 9,000 units of the model range have already been produced – boasts not only its own distinctive design and exclusive equipment, but its technology is unique too, as indicated by the model badge: the 550 stands for the power output in hp and the 2 is for rear wheel drive.
For several decades, Valentino Balboni has had a distinct influence on the character of the super sports car bearing the sign of the bull. With his fine-tuning and testing work, he has helped to shape many automotive legends, from the Lamborghini Miura of the 60s through to the current Gallardo and Murciélago models. Balboni was hired in 1967 by company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini himself. From early on, it was evident that the young Balboni had a special feel for cars, that most sensitive of all instincts that connects to the ‘life blood’ of an automobile and defines the soul of a test driver.
So like many great automotive pioneers before him, Ferruccio Lamborghini set forth to produce the best supercars in the world, and compete head to head with Mr. Enzo Ferrari. First Lamborghini designed the GTV prototype, a 170 MPH sports coupe powered by a 3.5 Liter V12. He then went on to sell the 350GT then the 400GT, when Lamborghini had enough to sustain the company; he built his first true sports car the mid engine 12 cylinder Lamborghini Miura.
It took a Canadian designer by the name of Jason Battersby to bridge the gap between Lamborghini’s past as a manufacturer of agriculture equipment to the company’s future as one of the premier supercar builders in the world. The Lamborghini Toro pays homage to Ferruccio’s humble beginnings and at the same time points the future design of Lamborghini’s speed machines in the right direction.