Feast your eyes on this spate of pictures of Lamborghini’s brimstone-respiring Murciélago replacement—which is all but guaranteed to be called the Aventador LP700-4. As you can see, it’s as feral and vulgar as a Lamborghini flagship should be.
The Aventador’s bulging front fender dominates the car’s profile, but it would be impossible to miss the air intake behind the driver’s door—it’s big enough to kick a football through. That intake will be gulping air for the all-new 6.5-liter V-12 (which we described in detail last month). There will be tremendous stoppers at all four corners, a requirement when the brakes have to rein in 700 hp and 509 lb-ft of torque.
Rather than aluminum or steel, the Aventador makes use of a carbon-fiber monocoque, similar in theory if not execution to that of the Sesto Elemento concept, which will help keep weight down. Add the trick, single-clutch transmission that the company says shifts faster than any dual-clutch unit—Lambo hasn’t allowed any instrumented testing on its prototypes yet—and it seems like the Aventador will tick all the boxes on the bleeding-edge-supercar checklist.
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