Murcielago

The Lamborghini Murcielago is 2-seater, 2-door coupe (with the now familiar gull-wing doors) based on the traditional Lamborghini layout: mid-mounted V12 engine, typical Lamborghini transmission with the gearbox mounted in front of the engine and the rear differential integrated into the engine unit, permanent four-wheel drive with central viscous coupler.

Open Source Auto Oscar Murcielago Ben Barren 2006

The Le Mans version Murcielago R-GT is considered to be one of the fastest Lamborghini model which is said to have attained the top speed of 370 km/h, whereas the road version of the same model called Murcielago LP640 can deliver a high speed of 340 km/h.

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The Murcielago was the original successor to the Diablo, which saw a production of 2,900 cars from

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And it took the Boeing Corporation to help Lambo build a carbon-fiber chassis 150% stiffer than the Murcielago weighing a mere 324 pounds.

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In the very situation I'm in at Vallelunga—a transient cornering maneuver with some speed, having to peddle the throttle to bring the nose into line—the Murcielago would be all wound up, its out-of-date stability software and AWD system agonizing between understeer and oversteer.

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The car maker imports and sells the LP 560-4 and Murcielago models in India.

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The Murcielago also was/is, to put it mildly, a handful in the handling department.

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And like the Murcielago, the Aventador is named after a famous retired fighting bull.

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The car the Aventador replaces, the Murcielago, set the modern standard for dysfunctional supercar love: ferocious, belt-high, chthonic, a car so pagan you should use a reindeer cape as a car cover.

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Lamborghini The Aventador replaces the aging Murcielago as Lamborghini's halo car.

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