World Auto News & Reviews

It has been about 10 years since Lamborghini released a rear-wheel drive car, so the Gallardo LP550-2 Vittorio Balboni is long, long overdue. We should have picked up the hint when the Gallardo upgrade was christened “LP560-4” because you wouldn’t call it “4” when everybody knew it was all-wheel drive, unless you were planning to launch something with something else.About 41 years ago, an older tractor maker named Ferruccio Lamborghini recruited a young man to join the fledgling sports car company he built purely to spite Enzo Ferrari, whose customer relationship management he didn’t think much of.
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A two-minute video featuring the Lamborghini Reventon Roadster has just been released, but don’t expect to see too much of the car in the clip. In what looks more like a perfume commercial from the 1980s, the somewhat confusing video breaks down several longshots that have better odds of happening over ownership of the car.
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Just prior to leaving for Frankfurt for the Frankfurt Motor Show, Leftlane had an opportunity to discuss the auto industry in general, and Lamborghini in particular, with company President and CEO Stephan Winkelmann in Miami.Despite his German ancestry, Winkelmann has spent virtually all his life in Italy. The son of German parents, he was born in Berlin, but moved with his family to Rome when he was a baby. Growing up in Italy eventually led him to his formal schooling where he studied political science. After graduating, he spent two years as a paratrooper, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, as a Lieutenant in the German Army.
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Didn’t manage to empty your bank account on one of the 20 Lamborghini Reventon coupes? No worries, as the Italian dream-carmaker is readying another exclusive batch of Reventons, this time in roadster form. The front piece of Lamborghini’s stand at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show gets the same jet-fighter looks as the coupe model which was unveiled two years ago sans the rooftop, of course. There’s nothing official on the car as of yet, but we suspect that the topless Reventon will be powered by Lambo’s particular feisty 6.5-liter V12 producing around 650HP.
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The much-acclaimed Lamborghini Miura Bible by Joe Sackey was first published by Veloce in November 2008. However the entire first print run was sold out in less than four months, leaving a lot of people disappointed. Now reprinted, the book is widely available again.
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