Lamborghini has unveiled the Reventón at Frankfurt Motor Show, with a price tag of a million Euros plus taxes.The Lamborghini Reventón is a ...
Lamborghini has unveiled the Reventón at Frankfurt Motor Show, with a price tag of a million Euros plus taxes.The Lamborghini Reventón is a road vehicle with an extreme specification and, , a limited edition masterpiece - a coherent style, angular with sharp lines, inspired by the very latest aeronautics. It is tempting to disregard limited editions as a ploy to strip the supra-rich of their reserves, however the latest Lambo is quite like value addition on a massive scale. Above all its bound to stand out as a symbol of extreme exclusivity, yet still offering the extraordinary performance that makes the Reventón so unrivalled. Under the completely autonomous design, the Reventón possesses the entire technical and dynamic competence of a twelve cylinder Lamborghini.“However, the Reventón is the most extreme of all, a true automotive superlative. Our designers at the Lamborghini Style Centre took the technical base of the Murciélago LP640 and compressed and intensified its DNA, its genetic code,” affirms Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. The Lamborghini Reventón was entirely designed in Sant’Agata Bolognese, the original birthplace of the Lamborghini and the native home of every super car born under the sign of the bull.The design drawn up in Lamborghini’s Centro Stile (Style Centre) is fine-tuned in close collaboration with the Lamborghini Research and Development Department. Although it is based on Murciélago LP640, the exterior design of the Reventón is completely new. Just like the base model, the exterior is made of CFC, a composite carbon fibre material, which is as stable as it is light. The exterior components are glued and fixed to the body comprised of CFC and steel. The front is characterised by the acute angle of the central ‘arrow’ and by the powerful forward-facing air intakes. Although they do not supply air directly to the turbine like an airplane, bearing in mind the 650 hp, an abundant volume of air is necessary to cool the carbon brake disks and the six cylinder callipers. Both doors on the Reventón open upwards - since the legendary Countach this has also been a symbol of the V12 Lamborghini product line.With their asymmetric configuration, the large air intakes below the doors provide an example of the extreme coherence with which a Lamborghini fulfils its function: on the driver's side it is large to increase the flow of oil to the radiator. On the passenger’s side of the vehicle, the air intake is flat because in this case, it only has to ensure the flow below the floor.
The airflow and the section of the variable geometry air intakes of the engine and the rear spoiler (also adjustable) have been modified.
The engine hood made of glass laminate with open ventilation slits offers a glimpse of the beating heart of the twelve cylinders of the super car.The glass also features the marked arrow angle that characterises the design from the front to the rear spoiler.The Lamborghini designers’ love for detail is beautifully illustrated by the fuel tank lid: a small mechanical work of art, achieved by milling a solid aluminium block.
The combination lights transform the incisiveness of the design into light: the front features the most modern lightemitting diodes alongside Bi-Xenon headlights. Seven LEDs ensure continuous daylight while there are a further nine diodes for the indicator and hazard lights. Another technical innovation is found in the rear light LEDs.
The same innovative force applied to the exterior design characterises the cockpit of the Reventón. Designed and created using Alcantara, carbon, aluminium and leather that comply with the top quality standards, the interior is inspired by the next generation cockpits: just like in modern airplanes, the instruments comprise three TFT liquid crystal displays with innovative display modes. At the touch of a button, the driver can choose from two vehicle information display modes.The instruments are housed in a structure milled from a solid aluminium block, protected by a carbon fibre casing.
The G-Force-Meter is also completely new: this display shows the dynamic drive forces, longitudinal acceleration during acceleration and braking, as well as transversal acceleration around bends.These forces are represented by the movement of an indicator on a graduated 3D grid depending on the direction and intensity of the acceleration. A similar instrument can be found in the airplanes.
By simply pressing a button, the driver can switch to the second, quasi-analogical display, where the classic circular instruments, speedometer and engine speed indicator are configured in an equally innovative way and transformed into luminous pilot lamps with varying colours.The G-Force-Meter naturally remains at the centre in this display mode.
All this is possible thanks to the fact that the entire electronic platform of the Reventón, together with all the control devices, has been autonomously developed by the Lamborghini experts.The same process for integrating the electronic displays in the car was applied to the Lamborghini Engineering Department.
