Lamborghini posts record sales in 2015, best year ever PerformanceDrive

Lamborghini posts record sales in 2015, best year ever  PerformanceDrive

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is definitely an Italian brand name and manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs situated in Sant'Agata Bolognese and tractors Lamborghini Trattori in Pieve di Cento, Italy. The company is of the Volkswagen Group through its subsidiary Audi.Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturing magnate, founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. in 1963 to take on established marques, including Ferrari. The company gained wide acclaim in 1966 to the Miura sports coupé, which established rear mid-engine, rear wheel drive because standard layout for high-performance cars with the era. Lamborghini grew rapidly during its first decade, but sales plunged inside wake in the 1973 worldwide financial downturn plus the oil crisis. The firm's ownership changed 3 x after 1973, including a bankruptcy in 1978. American Chrysler Corporation took charge of Lamborghini in 1987 and sold it to Malaysian investment group Mycom Setdco and Indonesian group V'Power Corporation in 1994. In 1998, Mycom Setdco and V'Power sold Lamborghini on the Volkswagen Group where it turned out placed under the control in the group's Audi division.New products and model lines were introduced for the brand's portfolio and brought towards the market and saw an elevated productivity for your brand. In the late 2000s, throughout the worldwide financial crisis along with the subsequent financial crisis, Lamborghini's sales saw a drop of nearly 50 %.Lamborghini produces sports cars and V12 engines for offshore powerboat racing. Lamborghini currently produces the V12-powered Aventador plus the V10-powered Huracán combined with the Urus SUV powered by way of a twin-turbo V8 engine.Throughout its history, Lamborghini has envisioned and presented various concept cars, starting in 1963 with all the very first Lamborghini prototype, the 350GTV. Other famous models include Bertone's 1967 Marzal, 1974 Bravo, and 1980 Athon, Chrysler's 1987 Portofino, the Italdesign-styled Cala from 1995, the Zagato-built Raptor from 1996.A retro-styled Lamborghini Miura concept car, the very first creation of chief designer Walter de'Silva, was presented in 2006. President and CEO Stephan Winkelmann denied how the concept will be put into production, saying which the Miura concept was "a celebration in our history, but Lamborghini is about the future. Retro design will not be what we are to put. So we won’t perform the [new] Miura.”At the 2008 Paris Motor Show, Lamborghini revealed the Estoque, a four-door sedan concept. Although there ended up much speculation about the Estoque's eventual production, Lamborghini management has never made a decision regarding creation of what might be the primary four-door car to roll out in the Sant'Agata factory.The Estoque, a 2008 sedan conceptAt this years Paris Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled the Sesto Elemento. The concept car is created almost entirely of carbon fibre which makes it extremely light, weighing only 999 kg. The Sesto Elemento shares the identical V10 engine found inside Lamborghini Gallardo. Lamborghini hopes to signal a shift within the company's direction from making super cars dedicated to top speed to producing more agile, track focused cars together with the Sesto Elemento. The concept car can reach 0–62 by 50 %.5 seconds which enable it to reach a high speed of more than 180 mph.At the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled the Aventador J – a roofless, windowless version on the Lamborghini Aventador. The Aventador J uses the identical 700 hp engine and seven-speed transmission since the standard Aventador.At the 2012 Beijing Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled the Urus SUV. This is the 1st SUV built by Lamborghini since LM002.As part from the celebration of fifty years of Lamborghini, the corporation created the Egoista. Egoista is made for one person's driving and just one Egoista will be made.At the 2014 Paris Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled the Asterion LPI910-4 hybrid concept car. Named following the half-man, half-bull hybrid (Minotaur) of Greek legend, it is the very first hybrid Lamborghini within the history with the company. Utilizing the Huracán's 5.2 litre V10 producing 607 horsepower, together with one electric motor installed on the transaxle plus an additional two around the front axle, developing an extra 300 horsepower. This puts the ability at a combined figure of 907 horsepower. The 0–100 km/h time is claimed being just above three seconds, using a claimed top speed of 185 mph.

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