What is it?
The latest supercar to join the millionaires' club is the 2008 Lamborghini Reventon, a €1,000,000 special edition of the Murciélago LP640 that's been clothed in unique carbon-fiber bodywork. If it looks like a jet fighter to you, then you're getting the idea.
The Reventon's bodywork is pure Stealth fighter, an assembly of flat, geometric planes, interrupted lines and contorted surfaces. The look has been developed at Lamborghini Centro Stile in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, under the direction of chief designer Manfred Fitzgerald.
What's special about it?
For all the emphasis on style, there's also a functional dimension to the new bodywork. The arrow-style leading edge of the nose is flanked by twin air intakes that cool the front brakes, which feature carbon-composite rotors and six-piston calipers. The air intake integrated into the rocker sill beneath the driver's door feeds the V12's oil cooler, while the one on the passenger side helps energize the flow of air through the underbody aero diffuser.
More horsepower has been coaxed from the 6.5-liter DOHC Lamborghini V12, bringing its output to 650 horsepower. The all-wheel-drive Reventon with its automated sequential manual transmission gets to 100 kph (62 mph) in 3.4 seconds and can reach a top speed of 211 mph. The Reventon's engine is displayed beneath a louvered panel of glass in the rear deck.
The Lambo's bodywork is finished in Gray Barra due, a Stealth-like paint with metallic particles that changes its appearance from a flat, military-style opaque appearance in the shade to a deeper, stylish luster in full sunlight. The complementary body elements have been painted in a similar shade of color, but they have a shinier look.
The aircraft metaphor also carries over into the Reventon's interior. It's been trimmed in aluminum, carbon fiber, leather and suede. More remarkable is the car's military-style TFT (Thin Film Transistor) liquid-crystal instrument display. In one appearance mode, the speedometer is displayed as a pictograph of a road with numerals, while the tachometer takes the form of a luminous column to represent the rpm. With the press of a button, the display takes a more conventional form with dial-type gauges. A meter that indicates g-loadings under acceleration, cornering and braking is a featured element of either display.
Only 20 examples of the 2008 Lamborghini Reventon are scheduled to be built. The price is a cool €1,000,000, which converts to $1.4 million. The car is named for a bull that killed well-known novillero Felix Guzman in 1943 at a bullring in Mexico.
What's Edmunds' take?
This version of the Lamborghini Murciélago V12 is another example of Lamborghini's mission to keep its name in front of the public with special editions. This plan seems to be working, as Lamborghini sold 1,239 cars during the first six months of 2007, a 30 percent increase in sales that brought the company closer to its goal of being the most profitable sports car company in the world.
Source: www.edmunds.com
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