Premier4509 announced that it will be developing a new line of products that have been created for performance luxury cars. The Premier4509 line launches with the performance based aero enhancement package for the Lamborghini Murcielago. The kit is limited to 300 sets worldwide and will feature a numbered serial plate. The complete package includes a full front bumper with the boxed bumper support system, side pods and a rear bumper with optional adjustable rear spoiler. The total price is an MSRP at $28,000.00.

The Premier4509 collection will expand this year to include more products for Lamborghini, Bentley, Aston Martin, Maserati and more. The Premier4509 line will include limited edition wheels, soft goods and executive class accessories.

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Work on Lamborghini’s upcoming Murcielago SV is progressing as planned. The more powerful, lightweight, rear-wheel-drive LP640 is planned for launch later this year.

Insiders have told AutoCar that the SV will have more power than the Reventon and will be should weight 100kg less than the LP640. How much more powerful than the Reventon? Sources say that the Lamborghini Murcielago will have at least 39 more horsepower than the Reventon coming in at 680.

Weight will be reduced by dropping the front differential and driveshafts, the gadgets that raise and lower the rear spoiler, the multimedia system and with the use of carbon fiber body parts and light alloy wheels. Buyers will be able to opt for a smaller wing or a large wing, both made with carbon fiber.

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CarMagazine wrote a report on what might have benn the fastest Lamborghini to exit the Sant’Agata facility, the Lamborghini Ferruccio. Considering that the article was written yesterday, on April 1, this might be a prank, though we don’t really thinnk so.

CarMagazine reports that the car was designed by Italian coachbuilder Magvisio, and basically, it was a rebodied Murcielago LP640 which also would have gotten a power boost and would’ve been able to go as far as 230 mph. Magvisio is a specialist in customisation jobs for private customers and they named the project after Lamborghini’s founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini.

Though Lamborghini was never involved in the project, rumors say that the Italian officials were monitoring the project and were close to apporving it at some time. But, as designer Pule Magau said: “We have only had three orders, and no one has put down a deposit yet. Let’s just say it’s on ice.”

One of the main reasons why the interest was low, was the price of the Ferruccio. Magvisio planned on creating five coupe and five cabrio versions, each one priced at $1.5 million. Why so high? With its design inspired from past Lamborghinis, such as the rear haunches from the Countach or the light clusters from the Miura, the car would’ve gotten the 630 hp 6.5 liter V12 engine from the LP640 and also the four-wheel drive system. The performance figures are impressive: 0 to 60 mph in 3.0 seconds, 0 to 100 mph in less than 6 seconds and a top speed of over 230 mph. The Ferrucccio’s body and chassis are made from lightweight carbon fibre and on the interior we had carbon fibre seats, carbon dash and carbon doors. doors are carbon.
However, Magau added that they’re currently negotiating with prototyping firm Protoscar, which could cut costs and are really ambitious to create this car. The three customers that placed orders for the cars were supposed to pick up their cars in September but, until they don’t bring in deposits, this won’t happen.

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The Gallardo LP560-4. The 560 stands for the 560ps (552bhp) that’s come courtesy of the all-new 5.2-litre V10 engine (previously 5.0-litre and 520bhp – and 20kg heavier), the 4 relates to the four-wheel drive system that usually splits torque 30/70 front-to-rear.

You’ll struggle to tell the LP560-4 apart from the old Gallardo, but the rear lights are new (inspired by the Reventon and Miura concepts), the rear diffuser is re-styled, the headlights feature Audi-esque LED daytime running lights and the cooling intakes are wider and more dramatically sculpted. It’s not just a styling exercise either; all in the changes mean the new car is 31 percent more aerodynamically efficient than its predecessor.

Lamborghini claims that only the cylinder count is shared with the old V10, while a huge amount of work has been put into reducing friction within the engine and maximising efficiency – an aluminium alloy crankcase and pistons plus wrought steel con-rods are said to be key to this. The suspension, four-wheel drive system and e-gear transmission have also been improved.

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Lamborghini will expand its Ad Personam personalization range at the Detroit Motor Show. The Italian supercar maker claims to have drawn on inspiration from the fashion world in order to create the latest interior and exterior colours.

The Gallardo Spyder (centre) is painted in Marrone Apus, a colour Lambo describes as ‘halfway between brown and black’, but there is a golden reflection due to a special pigment in the paint. It’s Lamborghini’s second matt paint, approved after the success of such a finish on the Reventon.

Of more interest though is the fetching Blu Cepheus hue on the pair of LP640s. Apparently it's inspired by the purity and transparency of polar ice. The interior of the LP640 Roadster features untreated Tuscan leather which changes colour over time with natural wear.

Lamborghini is strongly focusing on the Ad Personam personalization program due to the importance of offering customers the widest range of possibilities for individualizing their cars. This allows them the ability to reflect their own personality and style,

said Stephan Winkelmann, president and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. It's a move to keep Lamborghini's two model range feeling fresh, and the company plans more special cars for the Geneva Motor Show in March 2008.

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A 4am wake-up Espresso has to suffice. The remaining drowsiness disappears as soon as the 6.5 ltr. V12, now with 663 hp, is fired up. Re-torque the wheels once again. After checking the pressure of the new Continental V-max tires the edo competition LP 640 Versione Nardo rolls onto the 12.6 km (7.8 miles) long oval.

Each contestant has 3 laps: The first one as the warm-up lap, the second one as the high-speed lap and the third one as the cool down lap. By now it’s 6am, the sun is rising over the test track. It’s chilly with light winds, but above all - It’s dry. On this Sunday morning the warm-up lap is driven at speeds between 280 and 300 km/h (174-186 mph). Particular attention is paid to vibrations, oil- and water-temperatures. It feels good, the LP 640, and thanks to the newly developed rear wing it’s so fantastically stable, as if the tires were glued to the south-Italian tarmac.

Now it’s on. The second lap counts and the growl of the V12 is turning into an infernal shriek as the revs rise - similar to a chainsaw cutting through a giant sequoia tree. Wide open throttle is the norm now and even at 280 km/h (174 mph) one is still being pushed into the seat. Meanwhile in 6th gear the raging bull comfortably eclipses the 340 km/h (211 mph) mark, but there’s more. 345.7 km/h (214.8 mph) is what TÜV-Rheinland’s meticulously accurate and incorruptible GPS-based measuring system shows.
Cool down lap - Not without pride the engine is brought back into more sedate rev ranges, with the knowledge to have achieved the fastest ever recorded top speed of a Lamborghini!

Even the newly developed rear wing could prove itself in these extreme conditions. No drop in top speed - far from it, and absolutely stable driving behavior even at these high speeds.

With this result Edo competition has clearly proven that even small modifications like an ECU recalibration, new high flow air filters and high performance catalytic converters specifically designed for the LP 640 can have a resounding effect.

Our thanks go to Continental, AutoBildSportscars, TÜV-Rheinland and Mr. Thomas Budde, Prof. M.D., who measured the heart rate of Edo Karabegovic and the other pilots during the runs.
While for some test drivers heart rates equaling those of top athletes were measured, our results were well within the comfort range with a peak of 150 beats per minute.

Driven by this fantastic success the team of edo competition Motorsport will field the Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640 with considerably more power next time. The goal is 700 hp, which should allow for a top speed in excess of 360 km/h (224 mph).

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The race between the Lamborghini Reventon and the Panavia Tornado jet fighter (A200-A) was held at the Ghedi (Brescia) military airport. The race was held on a 3000 meter runaway.

The Reventon was ahead in the first leg of the race, but in the last few meters, the Tornado caught up, taking off and flying over the Reventon which was at the speed of over 340 km/h.

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It’s based on the sensationally proportioned Lamborghini Murcielago LP640, but has been dressed up by Satan’s personal tailor in a military hue. The Reventon is the ultimate limited edition Lamborghini – just 20 will be built, at a cost of €1,000,000 each, and all have already been snapped up. Eleven cars go to America, seven stay in Europe, one will be dispatched to Japan and one to Dubai.

Designed in-house, the sinister Reventon is a breath-taking mix of Star Wars and Hot Wheels. Every edge is chiseled to perfection, each line is carved with total precision, and all the angles fit in a network of long, strong muscular cords.

And it’s beautifully detailed, too. Drink in those piercing LED headlamps, the bright yellow pinhead indicators and the red arrow taillights. Also new are the black alloy rims complete with carbonfibre blades for enhanced cooling – not to mention just looking cool – a machined-from-solid filler cap and air intakes that are both bigger and more geometric than those on the LP.

As with all Lamborghini’s current models, the Reventon is bull-related – it’s the name of a famous black bull, which dominated the Spanish corridas in the late 1930s. The fiercesome beast killed the famous torero Felix Guzman in 1943 before meeting its own grisly end.
Reventon costs €1,000,000, Lamborghini was somewhat reluctant to hand one over to us without some form of insurance cover. Of course, those deep-pocketed buyers will get the full power treatment. And the Reventon has plenty of power. It uses the same bellowing mid-mounted 6.5-litre V12 as the LP640 but power has climbed from 631 to 641bhp.

Lamborghini’s engineers simply checked its LP640 engines for tolerance. Those that ran at the upper bhp limit or beyond were put aside for the Reventon. Still, with a top speed of 212mph and a 3.4 second bolt to 60mph, the Reventon is hardly sluggish.

See pictures of Lamborghini Reventon from 2007 Los Angeles Motor Show.

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According to Autocar, Lamborghini is working on a superlight version of the Murcielago. Seen as a glorious end to its production (the Murcielago is scheduled to get out of production), the Murcielago SV will be about 130 kg lighter than the current LP640 and it seems it will be more powerful than the million Euro Reventon (they talk of about 680 hp for the SV).

So, how the Lmaborghini engineers plan on doing this? Well, the SV will be a RWD model, and the weight difference is made by removing the front differential and driveshaft (40 kilos removed) and more weight will be dropped by using carbon fiber for both the interior and the exterior, new forged alloy wheels, which will also save at least 6 kg. Also, Lamborghini will drop the multimedia system.

Another news is that Lamborghini opened newest Lamborghini dealership in Southern California.

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This is harder, faster and lighter Lamborghini Gallardo, a kind of pre-emptive strike against the Ferrari F430 Challenge Stradale due for launch. Shorn of its hi-fi and fitted with thinner glass and more carbonfibre and less metal, the Superleggera weighs 1330kg, a soild 100kg less than the standard Gallardo.

The carbon is everywhere: on the new engine cover and rear wing, the sill extensions and the door mirrors. Then there's the new multi-spoke 19-inch alloys, bucket seats and four point harnesses.

Sadly the engine's pretty much untouched, but tweaks to the inlet and exhaust system have liberated an extra 10bhp for a 530bhp total, dropping the 0-62mph time from 4.0 to 3.8sec. The 197mph top speed is the same as the standard car's though.

It's also four-wheel drive, just like the standard car. Lamborghini could have chopped another easy 100kg out by making it rear-drive only but according to R&D boss Maurizio Reggiani, four-wheel drive is part of a Lamborghini's DNA.
Lamborghini Gallardo on paper, a 100kg weight saving and a 10bhp increase in power don't sound likely to make an enormously different driving experience. But there is a tangible difference between this and the regular Gallardo - providing you're prepared to spank every last drop of performance form the sticky rubber and 5.0-litre V10.

The sportier dampers are a welcome modification on the track where poise, roadholding and control are instrumental for shaving off tenths here and there. On fresh tyres, the Superleggera must be pure bliss, but even on used rubber the car is flat and amazingly stable. Despite the tail-friendly 30:70 torque split, you experience the full handling spectrum from determined understeer to radical oversteer.

To get the best out of the Superleggera, you hit the sport button for even quicker upshifts from the e-gear transmission and a more lurid ESP calibration. You can turn in late and brutally abruptly, Alonso-style. And you can brake past the point of no return and will still be reeled in unscathed, providing you've left the ESP switched on. Switch it out and there's a different story to be told. You need to be very quick to catch any slide that gets out of hand.

On the road, the Superleggera is noisier and louder than the standard car and only really begins to shine at the sort of speeds most drivers will never see away from the circuit. Added to that it's significantly more expensive, commanding a £22k premium over the £123k needed to secure a regular Gallardo.

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It may look like a boggo Gallardo being hammered around the Nürburgring, but have a close look at the exhaust layout of the Lamborghini and you'll spot some rough and ready bodywork - and four smaller exhausts rather than the traditional two drainpipe-sized tailpipes. That's because this mule is running the all-alloy direct injection V8 from the Audi R8.

In a bid to boost Gallardo sales – and reduce development costs by borrowing from sister company Audi – Lamborghini engineers have dropped the R8's 420bhp eight-cylinder into the Gallardo's midship engine bay to create a new entry level Lamborghini that will sit below the current V10 model but above the Audi R8.

This is a cut-price Gallardo. That's the thinking behind pilfering Audi's powerplant, but it's all relative, remember. The current V10 Gallardo costs £127,000, so expect this new derivative to cost around £105,000 – a decent saving but still enough of a premium over the £76,825 Audi R8 to justify its Raging Bull badge. Expect it to arrive at the Geneva motor show early next year, with a Spyder to follow for the start of 2009, neatly fulfilling Lamborghini's promise of a 'new' model each year.
It may steal the R8's engine, but don't expect the Gallardo to play second fiddle to the Audi. Although the superb V8 will get a mild power hike to around 430bhp, the Gallardo's lighter kerbweight (130kg less than the R8's) will give it a useful – and, from a marketing point of view, absolutely essential – in-gear performance advantage over the R8. Expect it to rip to 60mph in 4.5 seconds and on to a 195mph top speed.

Audi will pull the wraps off a V10-powered R8 within the next 18 months, giving plenty of time to allow sales of the R8 to bed in and warm up buyers to the thought of a V8 Gallardo. The tricky bit will be pricing the hotter 500bhp R8 to distance it far enough from the standard R8 without stepping on the toes of the V8 Gallardo. We reckon on £95,000 for the V10 R8 – a decent premium over the eight-pot R8 but still shy of the entry-level Gallardo.

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What’s this? It looks like a Murcielago auditioning for the Batmobile! It’s actually the Lamborghini Reventon, a €1m special of which only 20 will be built. Named after a particularly feisty bull that killed bullfighter Felix Guzman in 1943, the Reventon features a 6.5-litre V12 producing 650bhp – just 10bhp up on the standard car with which it shares its four-wheel drive mechanicals.

Think of it as Lamborghini’s take on the Ferrari Enzo-based FXX – an extremely low-volume machine for those who find ultimate supercars a little too common. Unlike the FXX, however, the Reventon is built for the road.

• So it’s a Murcielago with a bodykit, then?

Not quite. However, it is the styling that’s most notable here, the Reventon looking something like a high-speed collision between a stealth fighter jet and the Murcielago LP640.
Designed in-house by Lamborghini’s Centro Stile, the Reventon’s body is made, like the LP640, of CFC, a composite carbon material that’s both light and strong. High-tech aviation has been the main inspiration, hence the new, milled-from-aluminum filler cap and a flat green/grey paint scheme that suggests radar-evading properties – though we wouldn’t want to tempt fate.

• The lights look different?

They are. New bi-xenon headlights are accompanied by seven LEDs and a further nine diodes for the indicators. Out back, heatproof LEDs are employed due to potential heat soak from a hard-worked V12. Elsewhere, the wheels are fitted with carbon fins screwed to the aluminium spokes to generate extra cooling for the ceramic brakes.

Despite the Reventon’s radical proportions, Lamborghini claims it remains entirely functional, the new bodywork helping to better cool the engine and brakes while remaining entirely usable in a world of speed bumps and kerbs.

• Is the interior borrowed from the LP640?

The underlying basis of the interior remains the same, though the treatments of carbon, leather, alcantara and aluminum are strikingly new and, typically, exquisitely crafted. Again inspired by fighter jets, the instruments comprise three liquid crystal displays that are housed in a structure milled from solid aluminum and protected by a carbon fibre casing.

Unfortunately, all 20 cars will be built and sold next year to ‘friends and collectors’ of Sant’Agata, according to Lamborghini. Still, with such a premium price and exclusivity, we wouldn’t bet against a few replicas making it onto the road.

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Gallardo Spyder in the UK? Does that mean leaky roof and just too damn unwieldy for our streets? You're way off target. A lot of cars simply don't translate to the UK. You drive them on (smooth, sunny) foreign roads and they make perfect sense, only to fail spectacularly when they arrive on our not so sunny and not very smooth shores. So it's a pleasant surprise that the Gallardo Spyder - £131,000, 520bhp and 197mph - works so brilliantly in the UK.

For a start the new roof is a work of art. To raise it, you press a button beside the gearknob and it sounds like a stairlift has sprung to life behind you. The entire rear deck lifts up to allow a brief glimpse of the engine, as the roof is unfurled from a tiny chubby behind the seats. It then folds down and clicks perfectly in place to create a solid (and watertight) seal with the windows. The movement takes a shade over 20sec which should just beat the traffic lights and save you from a soaking.

With the roof up there's substantially more noise than in the coupe, but that's only to be expected. It may be snug, but the Spyder is by no means uncomfortable. The cabin borrows from the flagship SE version of the Gallardo, which means bright colors and carbon fiber trim. The major controls have been pinched from the Audi A8 which means they all work and the driving position (behind a brilliant suede wheel) is spot on. So it's comfy, leak-proof and semi-practical.

Okay, but that's of little use if you're going to get stuck every time you enter an NCP…
It may have a mighty presence but the Gallardo is 169mm shorter than a Ford Mondeo and only 100mm wider, so it's easy to weave down our narrow roads. Parking is another matter. That wedge profile looks incredibly sexy but makes reversing an almost spiritual experience. The optional parking sensors and rear view camera are essential to avoid a call to the body shop after every spot of parallel parking.

• Come on, what's it like to drive?

Lamborghini has strengthened the Gallardo's space frame chassis around the windscreen pillars and rear bulkhead to boost rigidity. As a result the Gallardo feels very stiff on all but the bumpiest roads, when the body starts flexing a little. It's an impressive feat of engineering, especially when you bear in mind the amount of power (520bhp and 376lb ft of torque) is being channeled through the chassis.
The underpinnings are from the Gallardo SE. This means the Spyder benefits from sharper steering, revised damping, an extra 27bhp over the 'standard' Gallardo and revised gear ratios to sharpen performance. The result is an immensely quick and capable supercar that's easy to exploit on UK roads. The damping can be caught out over a series of bumps but generally it keeps the body firmly planted to the tarmac. The engine is epic, not just in its linear, relentless power delivery but in its soundtrack. When the butterfly opens in the exhaust nothing, absolutely nothing, comes close to the ferocity of its noise. It's shrill, angry and just a little bit scary.
The weak link is the steering. It stops the Gallardo from really coming alive, due to the lack of feel. It doesn't meet the same high standards set by the Gallardo's chassis and engine.

• Anything else?

The manual gearbox looks and feels the business but is a little cumbersome for quick changes. CAR Online recommends opting for the E-Gear semi-automatic gearbox over the manual. It's lightning quick and easy to use and allows you to devote your full attention to the rapidly approaching scenery.

• Verdict

The Gallardo Spyder is not just one of the best looking cars in the UK, it's one of the most beautiful on this planet. Very few cars can match its enormous presence, or the desirable mix of German engineering and Italian style. And its soul – that howling, urgent V10 – is enough to make any man weak at the knees. The Gallardo Spyder is sensational.

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