Lamborghini’s 50th anniversary - Veneno (Lambo's fastest car ever!)

[CAMAROBOY69]

 

[Clark]

I can't express how much I hate this car, the original Lamborghini's had so much style while still being super exotic. This is just pure cack.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

I cant express how much I love this car.

 

[RocZX]

Any news yet who owns the cars and pictures of each color?

The only info i could find is this ...............

Two of the buyers -- both Americans -- were in Geneva to get their first look at the car, having signed the contract long ago.

Antoine Dominic, owner of a Lamborghini dealership on Long Island, and Kris Singh II, a Floridian who is the managing director of Tequesta Investments, both have collections of exotic cars and both plan to actually use the car.

http://www.freep.com/article/20130306/BUSINESS01/303060031/A-Lamborghini-built-for-3-owners


No info on the 3rd owner or which color they will be getting

 

[BLJK Ice]

The only info i could find is this ...............

http://www.freep.com/article/20130306/BUSINESS01/303060031/A-Lamborghini-built-for-3-owners

No info on the 3rd owner or which color they will be getting

Awesome info, i really wanna see the different colors though.

Wait a sec, I read only 3 will be made. Will that even qualify it to be a "production car".

I thought a car maker had to produce at least 5 examples of a car to be considered a production car.

Anyway, the fact that only 3 are being made makes me like the car a little less. It doesn't make it more rare, i.e. desirable, imo it makes the entire car seem more like a one-off then anything else. Pretty sad considering that Ferrari and McLaren are making 300+ examples of their cars. oh well.

There's actually 4 if you include the one Lamborghini owns.

 

[Tornado]

Wait a sec, I read only 3 will be made. Will that even qualify it to be a "production car".

I thought a car maker had to produce at least 5 examples of a car to be considered a production car.

There's never been an official definition of production car beyond "was it produced."

 

[Prototyp3]

There's never been an official definition of production car beyond "was it produced."

I swore Ive read something about this in the past and for the life of me I just can't recall from where. Damn...

 

[McLaren]

Any news yet who owns the cars and pictures of each color?

Not yet. Hopefully we get to see the others, at least.

The other 3 haven't been made yet. We may not see the first until later this year. Roc posted who 2 of the owners were, the 3rd is an European owner.

Anyway, the fact that only 3 are being made makes me like the car a little less. It doesn't make it more rare, i.e. desirable, imo it makes the entire car seem more like a one-off then anything else. Pretty sad considering that Ferrari and McLaren are making 300+ examples of their cars. oh well.

Their cars don't sell for $4 million a piece, either.

 

[Tornado]

I swore Ive read something about this in the past and for the life of me I just can't recall from where. Damn...

For the purposes of homologation, certain racing organizations will require certain, different numbers of cars to be produced (for example, 200 for Group B, 2500 for Group A, 1 for FIA GT1); but to be a production car they really just need to build one and have it be street legal somewhere (so it can be registered as one).

 

[Mt. Lynx]

IIRC, in legal terms, a car has to have an assembly line to qualify as a production car.

 

[Crash]

Car sure looks over the top. Personally, not a huge fan of the styling.

I like that you again resort back to pointing out only the Aventador-sourced bits & make no attempt to comment on anything else; materials, tuning differences, wheels, brakes, etc. I suggest taking some time to look into how Boeing & Lamborghini developed the Sesto Elemento. The concept is the same applied to an Aventador base, but with more details involved.

Boeing was not directly involved in the development of the Sesto Elemento or Aventador. The Aventador and the 787 does share the same type of carbon fiber, but that's not because Boeing co-developed or helped with Aventador chassis development.

IIRC, in legal terms, a car has to have an assembly line to qualify as a production car.

That may be true in Sweden, but internationally, there's no such legal definition. A production car is simply a car that has been, well, produced and legal for public road use somewhere.

And if a car must have an assembly line to qualify as production car, wouldn't many low-production old Ferraris, or other very old cars, not be considered as production cars?

 

[Mt. Lynx]

Car sure looks over the top. Personally, not a huge fan of the styling.



Boeing was not directly involved in the development of the Sesto Elemento or Aventador. The Aventador and the 787 does share the same type of carbon fiber, but that's not because Boeing co-developed or helped with Aventador chassis development.



That may be true in Sweden, but internationally, there's no such legal definition. A production car is simply a car that has been, well, produced and legal for public road use somewhere.

And if a car must have an assembly line to qualify as production car, wouldn't many low-production old Ferraris, or other very old cars, not be considered as production cars?

Isn't "assembly line" an extremely loose term though? In my mind lots of cars, like f ex the Subaru rally cars had an assembly line at the Prodrive facility. Indeed, if anyone makes more than one car of the same model, they can be considered to have an assembly line. And even certain one-offs, like some Zondas, are built on the same assembly line as other cars, so they too can be considered as such. Ad they don't even have to be road legal. Look at the Zonda R f ex. It had a production run of 11(iirc) cars. And consider most of the GT3 cars. They are built by the numbers, and as such they do need some sort of assembly line. To me, both "assembly line" and "production car" are very loose terms. Outside the rulemakers of racing series of course.

 

[SuperShouden]

I love it, personally. It looks like a space ship, which is how a Lamborghini should look. Like the Countach with it's sharp edges and the Diablo with it's sleek physic...Even the Aventador had a sort of spacey look to it. The Gallardo and Murci looked like German cars...this...this looks like an MIB agent has pressed the little red button on his Ford POS. And what's even cooler, is that if this was a space ship in a world full of space ships...this would be what all the cool kids would be flying.

 

[Grayfox]

Video is down.

 

[sumbrownkid]

What exactly about this car has that makes it $4 mil? The materials? The tech? The workmanship?

At least the Bugatti is giving me the fastest road production car at a slightly cheaper price. I want to like it, but everything about it just seems wrong for some reason.

 

[SuperShouden]

It's a spaceship. It needs a spaceship price.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

What you're claiming has to be, for me, one of the most annoying 'accepted notions' of the automotive realm; that is that Lamborghinis are supposed to be insane and/or aircraft looking.

The Countach only looked like a spaceship after years of perversion to it's original design. The original car was a beautifully simple, mid-century-modern piece of Italian design. I would argue it has more in common with Italian furniture and architecture of the 1960s then space ships of the period, which look not even remotely similar to the Countach. I see a lot of Carlos Scarpa and even Mies Van Der Rohe influence in the Countach...not Apollo 17...

The Diablo was a softer evolution of the Countach. Again, no space ships. The Murcielago was a clean sheet design that didn't look like a space ship.

Then the Reventon happened, and now suddenly every Lamborghini must look like some sort of Hollywood interpretation of a first generation stealth aircraft. Oddly, Lamborghinis now look like aircraft of the 1980s. How's that for forward thinking? The Veneno is...well worse really. I don't even know where to begin with this monster.

Lamborghini has allowed...no...embraced the caricature that the automotive media has pigeonholed them into, and I think they are worse for it.

 

[SuperShouden]

Whatever. I still love the spaceship look. Then again, I'm a sci-fi lover and writer, so, yeah. Personally, I think the Mucerialgo and Gallardo are the worse looking Lambos. Those two, however, aren't very Italian. They have the Lamborghini name, but everything else is pretty much German. The Aventador, Reventon, the Sesto Elemento and this new Veneno are all what happened when the Italians got a hold of the design pen again. The engines are still German, sure, but the bodies are all Lamborghini.

In an other note....Doesn't this ItalDesign Parcour look like the long lost Lamborghini SUV...or at least a prototype version:

 

[Stotty]

Lamborghini has allowed...no...embraced the caricature that the automotive media has pigeonholed them into, and I think they are worse for it.

Very well said 👍

 

[Stevisiov]

I think I would be more forgiving of its ... erm, eccentric design if it had insane performance figures (not necessarily lap time) to match its rather crazy appearance.

It's very difficult to look at it in any other way than an Aventador with a body kit (even if it makes extensive use of carbon fibre). It seems somewhat disappointing when compared with the Mclaren and Ferrari, which are genuinely impressive cars.

 

[Nessy]

Then the Reventon happened, and now suddenly every Lamborghini must look like some sort of Hollywood interpretation of a first generation stealth aircraft.

This^ 👍

The Aventador, Reventon, the Sesto Elemento and this new Veneno are all what happened when the Italians got a hold of the design pen again.

If this is the case, then please Italy, give the pen back to the Germans.

 

[Ranman20]

This^ 👍

If this is the case, then please Italy, give the pen back to the Germans.

Not all Italian company's suck. Pagani is still the best Italian company to me.

 

[Nessy]

Not all Italy company's suck.

I agree. I really do like a lot of the Italian design houses work, (Bertone, Pininfarina, Gandini, Giugiaro/ItalDesign and Zagato etc etc), but it doesn't mean i like everything that comes out of Italy.. especially Lamborghini's new design direction.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Not all Italy company's suck. Pagani is still the best Italian company to me.

Which is funny when you consider that it's owner and chief designer is from Argentina.

 

[Ranman20]

Which is funny when you consider that it's owner and chief designer is from Argentina.

-_- well

 

[sumbrownkid]

-_- well

Well he did apply his trade in Lamborghini though...if that means anything to the Italian connection.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

And, to be fair, he is of Italian blood.

 

[Ddrizle]

This vid isn't anything special, just the car backing out. Sounds nice though.

 

[AiYuna]

Happy 50th Lamborghini!! ONLY like what 4 are going to be released? All in different colors. Didn't they do the same for the Reventon? (Tries to sound smart). But the Aventador was ok.. Judging from the GT5's Version.

 

[RocZX]

The new car is a quicker, limited edition Aventador.

Just seen the Aventadorspecialedition for50thanniversary:a light yellowcar(lemon color)withbigger front spoiler, bigger rear diffuser, some difference in the upper part of front lid. Black front spoiler,blackrear diffuser, black engine cover. Rims look a bit different too, but here i'm not sure:theyare silverbutlooks a bit different from the standard ones.

A very good looking car, very aggressive: reminds the LP670 SV tuning mods versus the standard LP640, but this 50th Aventatordoes not have a fixed rear wing, looks to have the standard retractilerearwing.

ciao

However, the word about the 2+2 GT is still true as well as a current model with new mechanical bits.

close enough ....

The Aventador LP720-4 50 Anniversario

That's 20 up on the stock Aventador

On the outside, the cars have paint called Giallo Maggio. Maggio is May in Italian, and May is the month that Lambo was founded. Giallo is yellow, and yellow is a color.

There is a ton of carbon fiber aero bits, and they increase aero downforce by 50 percent. The perfect number. Inside, the car is also yellow, because why not?

The special edition Aventador will be unveiled at the Shanghai Motor Show this weekend.

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