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Lamborghini is an impressive automobile manufacturing company producing high performance automobiles most commonly two door, two seats sports car. Lamborghini the Italian automaker are known for their fascinating designs and more powerful, Lighter and faster structure.

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Many people consider the Ferrari 458 to be the pinnacle of automotive excellence.  It is the ultimate in high performance, vehicular perfection.  With its combination of active aerodynamics, lightweight exotic materials, a horsepower dense power plant, and lightning fast transmission, this car sits at the top of the evolutionary charts.  Although for the everyday enthusiast like myself, it marks the end of an era that many people never really got to appreciate...

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Turning sixteen (in most parts of the country) is the biggest day in a young enthusiasts' life.  The world is full of new possibilities all thanks to one little card with your picture on it, your driver's license.  For me, this meant the ever increasing challenge of perfecting my driving abilities.  It didn't matter if it was learning how to negotiate a blizzard in order to get to the grocery store or clipping a late apex on a decreasing radius on-ramp to find my gap in the flow of traffic.  One of the easiest tasks to accomplish but hardest to master for any driver is the manual transmission.  For every perfectly smooth take-off from a light, there are a handful of smoky burnouts and a single glorious sounding rev-matched downshift for every half dozen jerky gear changes.  Those are the times that inspire us to stick with it (no pun intended).

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I know being an enthusiast in America who loves to drive a manual transmission means that I'm in the minority.  I'm OK with that!  In fact, I embrace it.  It's like meeting another member of a secret society when you discover someone else drives a stick too.  I've been lucky to meet people and they've been gracious enough to let me drive their cars.  The next generation won't be able to feel the thrill of that perfect gear change or the camaraderie of fellow manual drivers.

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The Ferrari is the first step in this backwards evolution.  Yes, the dual clutch transmission can shift faster than any human could possibly achieve.  Yes, it will improve everyone's lap times.  But, honestly, how often are we on racetracks where we get to see those results listed in tenths of a second?  One of the biggest thrills to me is finding a beautifully sinewy piece of asphalt, dropping and rev-matching a gear or two, and following the ribbons at about a 7/10th pace.  Every step of the clutch, blip of the throttle, and "snick" of the gear lever is on purpose and for a reason.  For just a short time, everything is right in the world as man and machine conquer that road.

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Some would say that I'm being hard on Ferrari.  Granted, they are a company built on racing.  It's only right that they push the development envelope to produce the fastest cars on the track.  However, they are also the most revered company in the automotive world.  Their decision to not offer the 458 with a manual transmission is having a domino effect on its main competitors.  McLaren will not make a MP4-12C with a manual and Lamborghini will do away with the archaic device altogether once it releases its Murcielago replacement.  It can only be assumed that companies like BMW, Porsche, and Audi are watching the sales of these cars very carefully.  The majority of their performance cars still offer the option of a manual for the most part.  It's only a matter of time before they realize that profit margins can be improved by only having to tool their production plant for one transmission at the expense of alienating a small community of enthusiasts.

Whether we like it or not, dual clutch transmissions are here to stay.  I just hope that automakers can see that they will lose a percentage of enthusiasts to competing marques if they don't offer proper manuals.  If this isn't the case, the next generation of drivers might as well be born without opposable thumbs.

In the late 1950s, Ferruccio Lamborghini made a fortune manufacturing tractors in Northern Italy. His new found wealth gave him the opportunity to at one point own a Ferrari 250GT. An "aha" moment occured. Rather than simply fitting repurposed racing engines into a grand touring coupe, Lamborghini believed he could do "GT" even better.


The example you see all the way at the top, with the blond hanging out from the window, is the Lamborghini 400GT (this was before Lamborghini began naming his special vehicles after Spanish fighting bulls). The tuned 3.9-liter Bizzarrini V12 made 320 bhp at a considerably relaxed 6,500 rpm. Essentially, although Ferruccio Lamborghini was fond of Ferraris, he considered their engines too loud and too manic to be proper road cars. One would assume then, that while Ferrari sports cars were engine-centric, Lamborghini was concerned about overall real-life packaging.

Throughout the years, the companies have changed significantly yet their ground has stayed the same. Ferrari continues to focus on their racing development but now creates a certain finesse in their cars-- a balanced chassis for driving pleasure. Lamborghini has taken the role of the engine-centric manufacturer, successively creating iconic and dramatic beasts from the Miura, to the Countach, the Diablo, until finally the current Murcielago as well as the expecting Jota/Aventador. When you take a step back, Ferrari is still a race bred mark while Lamborghini is still a street machine that is not concerned with sporting pedigree.

This has led me to a thought. There is room in Lamborghini's line up still, and they deserve to have a GT like their 400GT, Espada and Islero again. I can guarantee that it will sell. When considering a front engine, rear wheel drive sports grand tourer, there's less to worry about in terms of satisfying those that believe an MR is supposed to handle. We all know that the big Lambos have all been pigs, and it's not even like Lamborghini ever cared. If they did, a V10 wouldn't have been their smallest engine.

There is a real opportunity here to just pen out whatever it is Lamborghini believes an Italian Aston Martin should look like. Straight up front engined V12 Italian sex.


Lamborghini, you got the platform.

Do the damn thing. People will lust for it.

I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only enthusiast who saves old magazines.  While cleaning out some old junk, I came across the January 2000 edition of Road & Track.  The cover story is 100 Best Cars of 100 Years.  I assume this is like the Wikipedia of its day to an impressionable fourteen year old. Having said that, the most striking thing about the issue is the Ampersand column which has a short blurb about the Bugatti Veyron Concept.

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Now, we all know that the Bugatti Veyron in production form sports a 8.0 liter quad-turbo W16 which is mated to a 7-speed dual clutch transmission.  The 1001 horsepower from that massive power plant gets to the ground through all four contact patches.  This allows for some tenacious grip and a 0-60 time of 2.5 seconds.  However, this was not the original vision for the mightiest of supercars.

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Having pictures of both the production car and the concept for comparison shows that the production car seems to have gone through the gestation period pretty much intact.  Repeated reports of crashed test mules with bad aerodynamics tell a different story though.  Minute details like a more upright grill and a more bulbous front end seem to be the minor changes.  However,without the aid of a wind tunnel and an aerodynamicist, I'd be hard-pressed to tell any other differences.

Taking a peak under the hood would reveal a major difference.  The Volkswagen group had originally planned on using a 6.3 liter W18 for motivation.  This sounds like an extraordinary bit of engineering.  That is, until that 20/20 hindsight thing kicks in.  That W18 would push out around 555 horsepower.  This doesn't sound like much now considering the 6.3 liter V8 from the boys over at AMG develops 518 horsepower and a spleen-rupturing amount of torque which can be had at a tenth of the price of the Veyron.  It can be assumed that the Vee-dub planners saw the writing on the wall when the Lamborghini Murcielago (also under the VW umbrella) came out in 2001 with a 572 horsepower 6.2 liter V12.

It's refreshing to see that concept cars can make it to production with little change to the jaw-dropping sheet metal that originally made us wade through the car show crowds.  In addition, the ability to be fluid with engineering ideas and execution has allowed the Veyron to rewrite every performance record.  I hope my grandchildren will have the same kind of wonder that made me keep that issue of Road & Track because they'll probably be reading about the Veyron in that January 3000 issue of the 100 Best Cars of 100 Years.



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The Lamborghini Gallardo (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaˈʎarðo]) is a sports car built by Lamborghini. The Gallardo is Lamborghini's most-produced model to date, with over 5000 built in its first three years of production.[3] Each car costs about $180,000 to $210,000. The car is named after a famous breed of fighting bull. The Spanish word gallardo translates into "gallant," and from Italian into "striking".

The Gallardo offers two choices of transmissions, a conventional (H-Box) six-speed manual transmission, and an advanced six-speed electro-hydraulically controlled semi-automatic robotized manual, which Lamborghini abbreviates to "E-gear". The "E-gear" allows the driver to make shifts much faster than a manual transmission would. The driver shifts up and down via paddles behind the steering wheel, and does not and cannot manually actuate the clutch.

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The Lamborghini Diablo was a high-performance mid-engined sports car built by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1990 and 2001. It was the first Lamborghini capable of attaining a top speed in excess of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h). After the end of its production run in 2001, the Diablo was replaced by the Lamborghini Murciélago.

Development

At a time when the company was financed by the Swiss-based Mimram brothers, Lamborghini began development of what was codenamed Project 132 in June 1985 as a replacement for the Countach model. The brief stated that its top speed had to be at least 315 km/h.

The design of the car was contracted to Marcello Gandini, who had designed its two predecessors. When Chrysler bought the company in 1987, providing money to complete its development, its management was unimpressed with Gandini’s designs and commissioned its design team in Detroit to execute a third extensive redesign, smoothing out the trademark sharp edges and corners of Gandini's original design, and leaving him famously unimpressed.

The Lamborghini Reventón (Spanish pronunciation:is a mid-engined sports car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. It ranks as one of the most powerful and expensive Lamborghini road cars to date, costing one million euros (US$1.5 million, or £858,000). The official press release stated that only 20 vehicles would be released to the public, with one additional car (marked as 0/20) produced for the Lamborghini Museum.[3] Although early rumours indicated the total number would actually be 100, each Reventón is clearly stamped with its number in the sequence of 20 between the driver's and passenger's seats.

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