Inside The Mind Of An Automotive Geek

Lamborghini: an Italian manufacturer of high performance sports cars. And when I say high performance, it means super fast cars with looks that can wow almost everyone. For years, the Diablo has been the most popular Lamborghini. Even when it was replaced by the Murcielago in the automaker's lineup, the Diablo is, for me, still the most popular Lambo and the best looking one too. But that was before Lamborghini's newest road rocket, the Lamborghini Reventón, came into being.

The said car is so expensive that I'd end up being a slave myself for the rest of my life and still be paying for it in the afterlife. The price tag on the Reventón is a million euros. And that's before taxes. What makes it more special other than the price is that only 20 units of the Reventón will be made. And all of them are already pre-sold to customers around the world.

Words alone cannot describe how the Reventón looks so good. You can just imagine the air flowing up and over the car easily. And in reality, that's how air reacts to the car. That's because 0the Reventón is designed to be the most aerodynamic Lambo ever.

We know that Lamborghini cars are designed to be so extreme that it borders on the extraordinary. Stephan Winkelmann, President and the Chief Executive Officer of Lamborghini describe the Reventón saying: "However, the Reventón is the most extreme of all, a true automotive superlative. Our designers at the Lamborghini Style Centre took the technical base of the Murcielago LP640 and compressed and intensified its DNA, its genetic code."

Although the Murcielago is the canvas for the Reventón, the interior of the new sports car is also new with nothing taken from the Murcielago. On the outside, the new super car is made out of a composite carbon fiber metal. I'm sure you have heard of this stuff. The same material used on aircrafts and Formula One cars as well as the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster. It is light, yet very durable and very stable. The material alone can set you back hundreds of thousands already that's why the 1 million euro price tag is not a surprise anymore.

Just like the Countach, the predecessor of the Diablo and the Murcielago, the Reventón's doors open upwards. It is also equipped with a twelve-cylinder engine. This is the same unit used on the Murcielago LP640. For the Reventón though, the engine was given more oomph. It produces as much as 650 horsepower at 8,000 revs per minute. That power pushes the Reventón from a standstill to a hundred kilometers per hour in just 3.4 seconds.

Wow, huh?