Showing posts with label Lamborghini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lamborghini. Show all posts

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Top 3 Most Expensive Cars in the World

There is probably not one person who does not want to drive an expensive car; because everyone wants to. If you always had the imagination of owning the best car in the world, then here is a list of top 3 exclusively most expensive cars in the world. Get any one of them and you would be envied by the whole world.

Expensive Cars in the World

3. Ferrari Enzo

On the third position we have a Ferrari car named Enzo. It is named after Ferrari's owner. This is a car which doesn't lack even a small bit in terms of styling and at the same time has magnificent performance lurking under the hood. Ferrari Enzo's initial cost was $670,000 and only 399 units were produced for the first time. But as a few cars got crashed and as the demand for the car rose, the manufacturers kept increasing the price of the car. Presently it is estimated to be costing over $1,000,000. It has a V12 engine with 5988 cc capacity which can reach a top speed of 217 mph.


2010 Lamborghini Reventon Roadster
Expensive Cars in the World

2. Lamborghini Reventon

This is a recent car that has taken the top 2nd spot in the most expensive cars list. This car was first showcased in the year 2007 in Frankfurt Auto Show. The press release states that Reventon has been designed around the designs of the "fastest airplanes". Other than the exterior styling, the mechanical elements used for the design of the car as such, seems to be very similar to the Murcielago. Reventon possess the most powerful engine that Lamborghini has ever designed. Only 20 models of this car were made and better yet, they were sold before they ever even made. Reventon has a V12 engine and can hit 60 mph in only 3.3 seconds reaching a top speed of 211 mph.


1. Bugatti Veyron

Bugatti Veyron is developed by Bugatti Automobiles SAS and Volkswagen in collaboration. This happens to be the most expensive car ever made. The car is named after Pierre Veyron who happens to be a French Racing driver, who won Le Mans in 1939. Veyron comprises of 8 liter W16 engine with 16 cylinders in two rows of 8 cylinders. Four turbochargers feed fuel to this gigantic engine. This car is able to produce huge torque, to the range of 1,250 N-m, and this also gives the car the tag of "fastest accelerating car in the world". The car is able to crack 253.8 mph and costs a hopping $1,700,000.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 620 Yarrow

2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 620 Yarrow

2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 620 Yarrow

Ferruccio Lamborghini was a very successful business man who owned various businesses although his main line of business was building and selling tractors. Ferruccio's philosophy was to work hard in the morning and enjoy himself in the afternoon. One day while racing his Ferrari with his close friend Enzo Ferrari he told him that he didn't quite think that his car was good enough! Enzo took it the wrong way and replied "what would you know about building sports cars, you only know how to build tractors"? Ferruccio felt insulted and decided to build himself his own sports cars. At first everybody laughed at his big ideas. But in 1963 he opened his state of the art factory in Sant' Agata in Bolognese about 25km from Bologna.

Ferruccio Lamborghini's love of bulls was so strong that he would often visit Don Eduardo Miura who was the owner of a famous bull ranch in the region of Seville and who bred several species. It was this passion that led him to name several of his cars after various breeds of bull which were reared on this ranch. In 1966 at The Geneva Motor Show an early prototype car called the P400S received so much attention that it went in to production under a different name as the Miura a 4 litre car with 280 bhp which is named after a savage breed of Bull bred by Don Eduardo Miura himself, and several variations followed including the SV Concept, Roadster, SV, and the Jota A replacement for the Miura was to become the Islero 400GT and Islero 400GTS a 2+2 coupe which was built between 1968 and 1969 and was named after the bull that killed the famous matador Manolete in 1947.


2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 620 Yarrow

The Espada which is the Spanish word for Sword appeared in 1968 at the Geneva motor show and was designed by Marcello Gandini of Bertone the famous car designer who designed several cars for Lamborghini Other cars which had names related to bull fighting were the Jalpa which made its debut at the Geneva Auto Show in 1981 and was named after a breed of bull. In 1990 Diablo was named after a famous bull fight in 1869 when the Duke of Veragua's raging bull was in an epic battle with El Chicorro.


2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 620 Yarrow

Some of the more modern supercars of this era include the Muircéilago who was named after the legendary bull in 1879 whose life was spared by Matador El Lagartijo for his amazing performance in the arena and who survived more than 28 strokes from the estoc at this point the matador decided to spare it its life which is very unusual in bull fighting. Gallardo was the name of one of five famous castles of the fighting bull breed, and in 1943 the Reventon was named after the famous bull that took the life of the Mexican torero Félix Guzmán, and finally the 2008 concept car called the Estoque which is named after the estoc or sword in English language which is used to kill the bull in contest.

Although there was one very special Lamborghini supercar which wasn't connected to the name of any bull or bullfighting but could quite possibly be referred to as Madonna herself. This was of course the Countach, this came about when famous car designer Giuseppe Bertone first set eyes on the car. He was almost speechless except for one word which he managed to utter! This word was of course Countach which is often said as an act of astonishment and quite often used by Piedmontese men when they first set eyes on a beautiful woman.

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