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  3. Huracan Superleggera camo pics

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    Some new info:

     

    "Maurizio Reggiani, Lambo’s chief engineer, says that downforce is boosted from just 40 kilograms at 300 kilometres an hour to over 350 kg"

     

    "Reggiani says that in standard trim, a Performante can generate as much as 1.3 g’s of cornering force; up its tire game to PZero Trofeos and the number approaches the magical one-and-a-half g’s mark."

     

    "Does it (ALA) actually work?

     

    Fantastically well, thank you very much. Even compared with the advanced 720S McLaren unleashed a couple of weeks ago (and the GT that Ford won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with last year), the Performante is a veritable track weapon, a car that literally puts the “super” in sticking to the road like glue."

     

    http://driving.ca/lamborghini/huracan/revi...can-performante

  13. Aventador SV goes under 7 minutes at Nurburgring

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    I personally dislike hybrid sports cars, IMO they are pointless, it's like going to McDonalds and ordering some greasy, fatty meal and washing it down with Diet Coke as part of your being healthy initiative, really?? You know you went there for the grease a bit less sugar won't make any difference.

     

    I have an idea for how Lambo can comply with the emissions rules that is causing this hybrid adoption in supercars yet stay awesome. Lambo should put the hybrid battery and motor in a removable module that snaps into the trunk of the car for emissions/fuel efficiency certification. When owners take home the new car, they can just snap the module out so the car returns to its pure form without the excess weight and complexity of hybrids. The hybrid module can be built cheap. A disposable item to be put away after the car is purchased. The rules are stupid, but we comply.

     

  14. Aventador SV goes under 7 minutes at Nurburgring

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    To the real Lambo owners, these N ring laptimes may be irrelevant. In fact, in practical terms its a pointless bragging contest for 99.9999% of humanity. For an arm chair racer like me however (a lambo fan with no lambo), the SV ring record drew a palpable change in attitude from Lambo fans and none fans alike. If you read other forums, everyone is saying they did not expect Lambo could go that fast. Attitudes are changing and the SV is smashing the Lambo stereotype. The best part is the SV is gaining all this new cred without loosing any of its essential lambo qualities - it still looks great, sounds great and 100% lambo DNA.

  16. Aventador SV goes under 7 minutes at Nurburgring

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    CAR article:

     

    Lambo’s own computations estimated it would do a 7min 10sec run and they were pretty pleased with that, so the eventual 6.59.73 sent them crazy. Exclusive time at the ’Ring is so expensive that the actual time was achieved with just one flying lap. R&D boss Reggiani reckons that you can see the test driver making a couple of errors during the lap and that a clean run could cleave another three or four seconds off the total. That would make it quicker than a 918 Spyder, and I can't see that going down well at sister company Porsche.

     

    http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/l...sv-2015-review/

     

  17. Aventador SV goes under 7 minutes at Nurburgring

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    Evo article:

     

    That scary Nürburgring lap was done in a 15-minute window – a one shot deal. The driver ran the car in the lowest downforce setting in Corsa mode and with ESC on. He’s a Pirelli test driver called Marco Mapelli. It’s possible that the car could go quicker in the other downforce settings… the factory just don’t know as they haven’t set back-to-back laps. To be continued, then.

     

     

     

  18. Aventador SV goes under 7 minutes at Nurburgring

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    Autocar's article said:

     

    ... Forgive me, but I’m going to mention the Nürburgring Nordschleife for a moment. Lamborghini, with only a 15-minute window, decided it would have a crack at a Nordschleife lap time; with little notice, a Pirelli test driver set a time of 6min 59sec in this car.

     

    You must watch the video of the lap: there are some massively hairy moments, which Lamborghini’s Reggiani reckons were worth three or four dropped seconds. Now bear in mind that Porsche, after quite a lot of trying, made its 918 Spyder hybrid hypercar go only two seconds faster than that and you have an idea of the Superveloce’s latent pace.

     

    The fact that Porsche and Lamborghini are both part of the Volkswagen Group probably means Lamborghini won’t take the opportunity to go faster and reveal what might be an awkward truth: that this is the fastest car in the group's portfolio. And at £320,000, it's one you might – might - almost consider a bargain."

     

     

  24. R8 more power than Huracan?

    in Automobili Lamborghini

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    The Huracan is rated in metric as 610ps, which translates to 602hp. The R8 is probably the same but mistakenly listed by Car and Driver. Previously, Audi listed the R8 with a slightly lower hp compared to the Gallardo, but perhaps they have dropped that policy. Lamborghini did the same with the 2 wheel drive Gallardos, the LP550-2 vs the LP560-4. I have no idea if the lower hp rating of R8 and lp550 was real or just a branding exercise. The heavier weight of the R8 however should give the Huracan a slight edge.

  25. How would you like Lamborgini to react to F488 and McLaren 675LT

    in Archived Content

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    Just my thoughts:

     

    Twin turbo of current V10 will make the car too powerful, it will too easily reach 700hp. That is good for consumers, but Lamborghini will have a problem of how to top it next when the Huracan replacement after the update finally gets a low displacement possibly V8 twin turbo. In other words the update might be more powerful or at least easily modable to eclipse the next generation car.

     

    Larger V10 with cylinder deactivation or other fuel saving measure is perhaps the purest upgrade, but gaining 50 plus horsepower to equal or get near the competition may be difficult unless there is still so much untapped power in the current V10 design.

     

    Adding an electric motor is difficult as there is no hybrid mid engine Audi/VW/Porsche in production yet except for the limited production 918. Also going hybrid for the mid life upgrade might not be consistent if your next generation car will not be a hybrid.

     

    So my choice is to add a supercharger to current engine. It will be a stop gap to give the mid life car competitive power but not so much that so the next generation car can be even more powerful even if displacement is reduced (twin turbo though).

     

     

     

     

     

     

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