THE ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF THE ZANY AVENTADOR
Hey there everyone! :)
I am back again with the all new Lamborghini Veneno.
Not all bulls lost bullfights, though that is really the only result the toreador wants. A bull that wins is a career-ending, er, event. Veneno from 1914 was one of the bulls that didn't just have heart, but it won. And that is the name Lamborghini have extracted from their Bull Name Book for this car. What is it? Let us think of it as freedom. The designers of this car were given an Aventador to start work with but were then told that only three were going to be made, your Rs.21.42 crores, before taxes, are no good here- all spoken for. They would all be grey and each wearing one of the colours of the Italian flag as a stripe, and that they could take their beloved carbon fibre and go completely nuts. Success was achieved on all counts.
The engine is the same 6.5-litre V12 as the Aventador but it now makes 750PS through an optimised gearbox. Since the body is all carbon and the car is 125kg lighter than the Aventador, the suspension required only a little bit of tuning. And finally, the electric motor... let us get this straight. There is no electric motor and we will return to this topic in a bit. All told, this car will hit 100kmph in 2.8 seconds, top out at 355kmph. Sweet.
The all carbon bodywork is incredible to look at.
The highlight is extreme downforce and a properly Lamborghini-scale outrageous design down to the giant central fin that blends into the massive wing at the back. But on the other hand, when you see the car in the flesh two things happen.
Once you get past how Mad Max 2350AD it looks, you realise that your eyes pinball from detail to detail over the bodywork and this makes it a tremendously tiring car to stand next to and admire.
But if you stop drinking the Sant'Agata moonshine and think for a minute, a number of things emerge.
First, Lamborghini is likely to be the last of the supercar makes to embrace hybrid powertrains which is why it's show surprise, for once, was far from the most powerful cars on the show.
Second, Lamborghini has traditionally snagged the showstopper car of any show they turned up at. This time the buzz on the sidelines was how bravely over the top the Veneno was rather than how amazing the car looked. Third, the refinement of the 499 LaFerraris stole the aggressive thunder of the three Venenos. Hell, we even that many thought that the Urus and the Sesto Elemento, both mere concepts, were more spectacular in concepts, execution and implication than the Veneno. In all these myriad ways, the Veneno was unprecedented. But not necessarily in a good way. That in, itself, is also unprecedented.
Now that's not all. The design and features in my next post. So, keep reading for Veneno. (; (;
And yes. Do leave comments guys (;
The engine is the same 6.5-litre V12 as the Aventador but it now makes 750PS through an optimised gearbox. Since the body is all carbon and the car is 125kg lighter than the Aventador, the suspension required only a little bit of tuning. And finally, the electric motor... let us get this straight. There is no electric motor and we will return to this topic in a bit. All told, this car will hit 100kmph in 2.8 seconds, top out at 355kmph. Sweet.
The all carbon bodywork is incredible to look at.
The highlight is extreme downforce and a properly Lamborghini-scale outrageous design down to the giant central fin that blends into the massive wing at the back. But on the other hand, when you see the car in the flesh two things happen.
Once you get past how Mad Max 2350AD it looks, you realise that your eyes pinball from detail to detail over the bodywork and this makes it a tremendously tiring car to stand next to and admire.
But if you stop drinking the Sant'Agata moonshine and think for a minute, a number of things emerge.
First, Lamborghini is likely to be the last of the supercar makes to embrace hybrid powertrains which is why it's show surprise, for once, was far from the most powerful cars on the show.
Second, Lamborghini has traditionally snagged the showstopper car of any show they turned up at. This time the buzz on the sidelines was how bravely over the top the Veneno was rather than how amazing the car looked. Third, the refinement of the 499 LaFerraris stole the aggressive thunder of the three Venenos. Hell, we even that many thought that the Urus and the Sesto Elemento, both mere concepts, were more spectacular in concepts, execution and implication than the Veneno. In all these myriad ways, the Veneno was unprecedented. But not necessarily in a good way. That in, itself, is also unprecedented.
Now that's not all. The design and features in my next post. So, keep reading for Veneno. (; (;
And yes. Do leave comments guys (;
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