Where’s not much to say in here, we will just let the photos do all the talking! The girl - no comment, and the car - we sure wish to have it in our garage!
The German aftermarket tuning firm JB Design has just come out with a modified Lamborghini Murcielgo LP 640 that takes the ridiculousness of the Italian super car and pushes it well into the realm of insanity. The carbon fiber bodywork is only the beginning of what the tuners at JB Design can do, for around $41,000 they will upgrade the 640 HP V12 to the tune of 710 HP with their Stage 1 program. However this particular model goes even further, sending a total of 750 HP through the Lamorghini’s all wheel drive system. The added bonus to the engine package is that the LP 640 can now hit a 229 MPH top speed.
Ensuring exclusivity the highly modified Murcielaago is painted in a custom shade called Blood to Black Diamond that is owned by JB and is being limited to only 911 liters. That means you will have to suck up pretty hard to the boss at JB for a few quarts if you want to try and recreate this at home. The car designers make use of lightweight carbon fiber both inside and out. The hood is replaced with the space age wavy stuff as well as a more aggressive aero package. The front wing features a Formula One type center section and a pair of upward flanks on either side. Everything about this car is about the extreme, event the air intakes in the front bumper have a pair of black carbon fiber frames that act as air ducts forcing in more air at speed. Out back there is an over sized carbon fiber wing that wears the shops official JBR logo on the side.
The interior is equally as over the top as the outside making fine use of carbon fiber. Every surface is either covered in fine Italian leather or color complimenting dark red Ultrasuede. Every panel that would be made out of plastic on an ordinary car is made from large blocks of carbon fiber. The JBR is finished by a set of three piece Schmidt Revolution aluminum alloy wheels measuring 20 inches in diameter. The bright polished rims set off the car’s dark tinted windows and blood red paint perfectly, making this a car fit for the devil. The Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640 JBR is certainly not a bad way to spend half a million Euro.
The Japanese tuning house Veilside can be personally held responsible for some of the most unique tuner car creations on the face of the planet, and their new Premier 4509 line of appearance packages promise to do the same thing for a few more high profile vehicles. The Premier 4509 line from Veilside features body kits for the 200 MPH Bentley Continental GT as well as for both the Lamborghini Murcielago and Gallardo super cars.
This particular modified Murcielago sports some new skin that appears to have been inspired by the Reventon. The kit consists of a new front bumper with larger intakes and more angular lines. The 4509 Lambo also gets a pair of redesigned side skirts complete with oversized intakes in front of the rear wheels and a new rear bumper complete with a set of equally impressive vents and a functional diffuser. This particular example also wears the Premier 4509 wing on top of the rear deck lid to ensure that the raging bull is stable when flying at 205 MPH and looks just as good as it rolls by at 5 MPH. Veilside is also offering an oversized twin exhaust tip that fills in the negative space in the middle of the rear bumper quite nicely.
Aside from the limited edition carbon fiber Premier 4509 Lamborghini Murcielago body kit, of which only 300 will be sold, Veilside has also come out with a set of matching shoes to go along with your super car’s new suit. The Premier 4509 PL-V Limited Model rims offer a sleek triple split five spoke design, complete with staggered fitment and one heck of a lip in the back that is available in sizes rangin from 19 to 22 inches in diameter. So if you are feeling a little insecure about your LP640, perhaps the automotive styling specialists from Veilside can help you out with one of their new Premier 4509 body kits.
Ever wonder what goes on behind the creation of a supercar?
Thanks to National Geographic, now you’re going to have your chance. Beginning on October 1st, the National Geographic Channel will feature a new series called “Ultimate Factories”, a show that that gives us an unprecedented look into the world of supercars and takes us behind-the-scenes on how the cars of our dreams are created.
The first episode, which will air this Thursday, will take us inside the Lamborghini factory in SantAgata Bolognese, Italy for an up-close look at the creation of the ultra-exclusive Murcielago SV. Widely considered as the fastest Lamborghini to be built – it can reach speeds of up to 212 mph – the Murcielago SV can clock a 0-60 mph time in a mere 3.2 seconds.
We’ve seen Lamborghini’s crash into barriers, and burst into flames, but never have we seen two people blatantly jump on top of one and dance on it with no regard for the car’s value and price tag.
Apparently, that’s what Steve-O (the Jackass dude) and Tom Green did to a poor Murcielago. We cringe at a lot of things but this video absolutely leaves us mortified. Jumping on a car is one thing – we don’t condone it, by the way – but jumping on a car that’s worth about half a million dollars is just downright stupid. But being stupid is what these two guys do best and the unfortunate Murcielago had to pay a steep price for it.
Fortunately for these two knuckleheads, the owner of this car – at least according to TMZ – is their rap producer so at least we won’t be seeing a good ol’ fashion smackdown. But then again, this is a Murcielago we’re talking about so we won’t be surprised if Mr. Producer puts the stompin’ on his clients.
If we we’re him, we’d be reaching for a baseball bat already.
There may be some of you out there who, like the owner of this Lamborghini Mucielago who feel that the factory rated 571 HP just isn’t enough to qualify this high performance machine as a true super car. So the aftrmarket manufacturer Heffner Performance has equipped the twelve cylinder raging bull with a custom twin turbo kit that develops a maximum output of 1100 HP, almost double that of the stock Murcielago. With the combination of flashy Italian style and quadruple digit power numbers, this Lamborghini is destined to send Bugatti Veyrons running for cover.
This may not be the first time that you have hear the Itlian super car builder, Lamborghini is preparing a successor for the Murcielago. Well today we would like to show you a little more about the future dream machine, although it is still unnamed, we do know that the upcoming sports car will make its official debut sometime in 2012.
The theme of the future Murcielago replacement will be lightweight efficiency. The future 6.0 Liter 700 HP V12 powered Lamborghini will be able to to go from 0 to 60 MPH in just three seconds thanks to a lightweight carbon fiber body shell on top of Audi’s aluminum space frame chassis. The 2010 car keeps the side flanks of the Murcielago, but the front end is clearly inspired by the ultra exclusive Reventon. The car will be be both wider and longer than the current model, and will also feature a completely redesigned rear end made up of a pronounced spoiler and few fresh strips of LEDs to make up the taillights.
This 21st century super car is just the automaker’s first step, because they are expecting to debut their first ever hybrid Lamborghini by the year 2015 following this basic architecture. It doesn’t really matter whether or not this is what the finished product will look like, just knowing that the Italians are heading in the right direction is enough to ensure that the raging bull will live on into the next century.
For every person in the world that hits the lottery, there’s one on the other side of the spectrum that just can’t buy any luck.
Unfortunately, for this poor South Korean man, he’s probably wishing by now that he wasn’t at the wrong place at the wrong time. While driving along the highways of South Korea in his Hyundai Sonata, the man came across a flatbed truck with a 2009 Lamborghini Murcielago LP-670 safely stowed in the back. Rather than keep his distance from the ultra-expensive supercar, he instead crashed his Sonata into it.
To be fair, he probably didn’t mean to do it. Maybe he was mesmerized by the car – who wouldn’t - and forgot that he was about to hit it. In any case, the poor fellow is being ordered to pay for the car, which in South Korea costs at about $750,000. The guy does get some sort of relief because his insurance would pick up $100,000 of the tab. As for the remaining $650,000, that’s coming out of his own pocket.
A few years ago, Lamborghini released a special edition Murcielago LP640, which they dubbed as the Versace Edition. The car was so rare that only 20 models were ever built and those fortunate enough to have acquired were sitting on a true collector’s item.
Recently, one of these rare unicorns propped up on the grid once again. AS it turns out, the LP640 Versace Edition, which is labeled as car no. 12, is now courting prospective buyers at Al&Ed’s, a car dealership in West Hollywood, California.
How the Lamborghini ended up there, we don’t know. What we do know is that this particular Lamborghini is as rare as it gets.
The fruit of a successful collaboration between Lamborghini designers from the Lamborghini Design Centre and Maison Versace’s designers, the said Lamborghini that’s on sale in California has a going price of $318,000.
It may seem like a steep price to pay for a second-hand, but considering that this is one of the rarest cars in the world, the tag might very well be justified.
In a successful attempt to make the rest of the world jealous. The editors of the English automotive journal AutoCar have wrangled up two of the most powerful sports cars of the moment and put them in a head to head competition that they are calling the Clash of the Titans. Representing the good old U.S. of A is the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 with its plexiglass hood showing off all 638 intercooled horsepower while the Lamborghini Murcielago Super Veloce makes an impressive 670 HP, but has to send it to all four wheels and the style of something truly out of this world. So with the journalist Steve Sucliffe behind the wheel of Detroit’s most powerful piece of iron, he will try and see if he can keep up with Max Venturi, Lamborghini’s super handler. So was he successful?
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