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Lamborghini's newest supercar will be officially unveiled in Paris in October, but the factory has released a teaser shot giving a glimpse of the car.
Note: I'm bit surprised by the last comment because a 2WD Gallardo LP560-4 is now soon to be available for the 2011 model year.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/S...s/Lamborghinis-first-Paris-2010-teaser-photo/Those of you with keen memories will recall that two years ago a string of teaser pictures in the lead up to the 2008 Paris motor show eventually revealed the Estoque four-door supersaloon concept. Now Lamborghini is at it again, whetting our appetites with this, the first of a series of six teaser shots before a full unveil in the French capital on September 30 2010.
So just what is Lamborghini planning to show at the 2010 Paris motor show?
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The most obvious guess would be Lamborghini’s all-carbonfibre replacement for the Murcielago, but as we've reported before, our Lambo sources say that the new range-topping V12 supercar won’t be shown until 2011, at next spring’s Geneva motor show. A Murcielago SV Roadster then, or a Gallardo Balboni or Superleggera Spyder? We doubt it, as surely cutting the roof off any one of the above trio is hardly in keeping with their harder, faster, lighter ethos?
A tiny snippet of teaser text also accompanied the solitary picture, and the words are our best clue: ‘Lamborghini. Sound and light. Paris 2010. Discover the way to the future of supersports cars.’ Which means it’s not a follow-up to the four-door Estoque, but is certainly something carbonfibre. The black weave in the picture gives it away, and Lamborghini R&D boss Maurizio Reggiani has told CAR that the company wants to cut its supercars’ CO2 output by 35% from 2008 levels before 2015. ‘One of the most important parts of our CO2 road map is weight reduction. We have opened a laboratory for composite materials at the University of Washington in Seattle and have a partnership with Boeing, who have best-in-class technology on the 787 Dreamliner. We’ve worked with them for a couple of years.
‘We are working on lightweight, intelligent materials. I’ve seen a small deflector made from carbonfibre and other materials, which moves when you apply a voltage – you can open and close it with no need for a motor. It means you can change the shape of a car with different aero for handling mode, and another shape when you want maximum speed. Having something that moves by 90deg without the need a heavy, expensive electric motor is good news for us.
‘Stop-start solutions, mild hybrid systems, biofuel solutions are already in our development pipeline for potential production cars to achieve our 35% CO2 reduction.’
So expect some sort of technical showcase for the future, obviously in the form as a car as the teaser picture previews, and hopefully with all the tech that Reggiani promised us, but still with four-wheel drive: ‘Four-wheel drive is one of our USPs,' Reggian said. 'If you don’t have 4wd with the power we now have – more than 570bhp in the Gallardo, more than 650bhp in the Muricelago – you will just get wheelspin. Wheelspin is inefficient and loses control. It’s not the right engineering solution for us.’
Note: I'm bit surprised by the last comment because a 2WD Gallardo LP560-4 is now soon to be available for the 2011 model year.
