New Lamborghini Aventador
The Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 is a two-door, two-seater sports car publicly unveiled by Lamborghini at the Geneva Motor Show on 28 February, 2011, five months after its initial unveiling in Sant’Agata Bolognese.[2] Internally codenamed LB834,[3] the Aventador was designed to replace the ten-year-old Murciélago as the new flagship model in the Lamborghini line-up starting in 2011.[4] Soon after the Aventador unveiling, Lamborghini announced that it had already sold over 12 months of the production vehicles, with deliveries starting in the second half of 2011.[5]
Like previous Lamborghinis, the Aventador name was chosen for its symbolic connection to the world of fighting bulls, sharing a name with the legendary Aventador, a trophy-winning bull in the world of Spanish bullfighting. Bred by the sons of Don Celestino Cuadri Vides, the bull that bore the number 32 took part in a notably spirited, bloody and violent battle with a torero in the town of Zaragoza, Spain that earned him the “Trofeo de la Peña La Madroñera” in 1993
Engine
The Aventador LP700-4 will be using Lamborghini’s new 690 bhp (510 kW) 6.5 liter 60° V-12 engine. Known internally as the L539,[3] the new engine is Lamborghini’s fourth in-house engine and second V12, replacing the first generation Bizzarrini-designed V-12 that was in use since 1963[citation needed] (the other 2 being the V8 from the Urraco/Silhouette/Jalpa and the V10 in the current Gallardo)
Performance is estimated to be 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.9 seconds with a top speed of around 350 km/h (220 mph).[10]
Its transmission, a single-clutch 7-speed semi-automatic, is built by Graziano Trasmissioni.[11][12] Although being single-clutch, gear-shifts are accomplished significantly faster than a dual clutch, in 50 milliseconds. However, some other gearboxes can achieve gear-shifts in only 8 milliseconds using the pre-select option, like Volkswagen’s DSG gearbox.
Like previous Lamborghinis, the Aventador name was chosen for its symbolic connection to the world of fighting bulls, sharing a name with the legendary Aventador, a trophy-winning bull in the world of Spanish bullfighting. Bred by the sons of Don Celestino Cuadri Vides, the bull that bore the number 32 took part in a notably spirited, bloody and violent battle with a torero in the town of Zaragoza, Spain that earned him the “Trofeo de la Peña La Madroñera” in 1993
Engine
The Aventador LP700-4 will be using Lamborghini’s new 690 bhp (510 kW) 6.5 liter 60° V-12 engine. Known internally as the L539,[3] the new engine is Lamborghini’s fourth in-house engine and second V12, replacing the first generation Bizzarrini-designed V-12 that was in use since 1963[citation needed] (the other 2 being the V8 from the Urraco/Silhouette/Jalpa and the V10 in the current Gallardo)
Performance is estimated to be 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.9 seconds with a top speed of around 350 km/h (220 mph).[10]
Its transmission, a single-clutch 7-speed semi-automatic, is built by Graziano Trasmissioni.[11][12] Although being single-clutch, gear-shifts are accomplished significantly faster than a dual clutch, in 50 milliseconds. However, some other gearboxes can achieve gear-shifts in only 8 milliseconds using the pre-select option, like Volkswagen’s DSG gearbox.
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