We’ve all been trembling with anticipation for a while. By the honour of being Lambos ourselves, we get quite excited about a new raging bull in the family (Are they raging calves when they’re born?). And if that happens to be the Murciélago replacement, well, all of us develop nervous tics, rhythmically wring our fingers and start muttering under our collective breaths. The good news is, our misery will end in a few weeks’ time.
Yes, boys and girls, the Lamborghini Aventador (what a name!) will be launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
The Aventador’s exact appearance is still somewhat of a mystery, but from the spy-shots that we’ve seen, the latest Lambo seems to brandish edges that have more than a passing resemblance to the fighter jet-inspired and ultra-exclusive Reventón. No, it’s not the exact same thing, but you can see the similarities. Not a bad thing, really; it’s all in the family, eh? We’re sure once all the camouflage comes off, the Aventador will be strikingly different than its predecessors, yet maintaining a visual link to past models.
What won’t maintain a link to the past, is the the Aventador’s mighty new heart - a 6.5-litre V12 that whips out 700 stampeding bhp at 8,250 rpm and 70.36 kgm at 5,500 rpm. We think that’s enough to scare prancing horses silly, especially when you consider that a single Lambo horsepower is equal to about 10 red ones. In any case, it appears that the Aventador will hit 100 kph in 2.9 seconds and if you persist, it will take you to a mind-blowing 347 kph! Lamborghini says that the ‘exhaust system delivers that unmistakable, spine-tingling Lamborghini sound – from a moderate rumble when cruising through the city at low revs to the howling crescendo of gears at their limits’. Oh lord.
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