The Lamborghini Murcielago is a high-performance two-door, two-seat sports car, the Italian car manufacturer Lamborghini produced. It is often referred to as a super sports car, it is driven by a more recent development of the Lamborghini V12 engine and is the flagship of the automotive manufacturer’s lineup. TheLamborghini Murcielago was introduced in 2001 as a coupe for the 2002 model year, as the successor of the famous Lamborghini Diablo sports car lineup.

The car was the first automotive manufacturer, redesigned in eleven years and the first in the possession of the German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen. The Lamborghini Murcielago was of the Peruvian-born Belgian Luc Donckerwolke designed Lamborghini’s chief designer of 1998 to 2005. A roadster version of the car was introduced in 2004, followed by the updated LP 640 Coupe and Roadster and LP 650-4 Roadster. The recent development of the model is the SuperVeloce LP 670-4, a highly tuned version is expected to be the last iteration of the Murcielago plate before the model is replaced in early 2012.

Following the tradition of Lamborghini cars give their names from the world of bullfighting, the Murcielago, after a bull that survived 28 sword strokes in an 1879 battle against Rafael “El Lagartijo” Molina Sanchez, Coso de los Califas named arena in Cordoba, Spain. Murcielago fought with such passion and spirit that the matador, for his life, wanted to live to save a rare honor. The bull, who came from the farm of Joaquin del Val di Navarra and later as a gift to Don Antonio Miura, a well known local farmer put so began the famous Miura line of fighting bulls, the name of one of the first view of the great Lamborghini cars .

Lamborghini Murcielago is the Spanish name for the bat. The word is pronounced [murθielaɣo], a voiceless dental fricative (as in English) is spoken in Castilian Spanish in most of Spain. But the Italian car manufacturers often use the south of Spain and Latin American Spanish pronunciation [mursjelaɣo], a sound.

The standard Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 has been a rocket. With a monstrous 6.5-liter V-12 produces 632 horsepower, we clocked the 4060-LB-coupe at 3.2 seconds to 60 mph in a recent comparison test. At that time, trails only the 2.5-second sprint of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 between the cars we’ve recently tested, and the LP670-4 SV, this gap. Besides weight loss, the power has pushed to 661 hp. Lamborghini says that the SV will catapult to 62 km / h in 3.2 seconds, a 0-to-60 mph in 3.0 seconds may be within reach.

The V-12′s max power at 8,000 rpm reached when all 487 pounds-feet of torque at 6500 rpm available. The increased power comes from a modified intake manifold, valve train, and optimization of the increased valve lift, “said the Italian carmaker. Customers will be its six-speed manual transmission or automated e-gear gearbox choose.

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