Lamborghini Reventon

The Lamborghini Reventon is a mid-engined sports car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show. It is currently the most powerful and expensive Lamborghini road car to date, costing more than $1 million. Only 20 units will be released to the public, with a single car produced for the Lamborghini Museum. Each Lamborghini Reventon is clearly stamped with its number in the sequence of 20 between the drivers and passengers' seats. The Reventon is named after a fighting bull in keeping with Lamborghini tradition. The bull, owned by the Don Rodríguez family, was best known for killing famed bullfighter Felix Guzmán in 1943

Styling

The exterior styling was inspired by "the fastest airplanes." To emphasize this, Lamborghini staged a race between a Lamborghini Reventon and a Panavia Tornado fighter plane. The Lamborghini Reventon is the first Lamborghini to incorporate daylight running lights into the headlamps. Seven Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) at each headlamp flank the Bi-Xenon main beam and they stay lit whenever the car is in movement. Due to the high temperatures in the rear lower part of the car, special heatproof LEDs are used for the indicator and hazard lights, stoplights and rear lights with a triple arrow optical effect.

Mechanics

Although the exterior is all-new, almost all the mechanical elements (including the engine) are taken directly from the Murcielago LP640, such as its 6.5-liter, V-12 engine.

Hitting the Tarmac

Initial reports suggest that the 6.5-liter, V12 may receive a power boost of approximately 10 horsepower, bringing the new output to 650 horsepower. In spite of this, and the car's carbon fiber components, the Reventon accelerates from 0 to 62 mph in the same time as the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 (3.4 seconds). It can reach a maximum speed of more than 210 mph.

Interior

The instrument panel in the Reventon comprises three TFT liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with two different display modes. The instruments are housed in a structure milled from a solid aluminum block, protected by a carbon fiber casing. The G-Force-Meter is completely new. It displays the dynamic drive forces, longitudinal acceleration during acceleration and braking, as well as transversal acceleration around bends. These forces are represented by the movement of an indicator on a graduated 3D grid depending on the direction and intensity of the acceleration. Formula One teams also use a similar device to analyze dynamic forces.