| 09.01.2003 LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO
ROADSTER OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
Automobili Lamborghini officially
opens its Fortieth Anniversary by presenting a ravishing proposal, dedicated
to true Italian supercar fans, at Detroit Motor Show. The Lamborghini Concept
Car was designed by Luc Donckerwolke, Head of Lamborghini Design. It continues
and exalts the Barchetta concept, an open car of Italian tradition. This
Concept Car has a more exclusive, aggressive and extreme design compared
to the Murciélago, from which it derives and compared to which is
lower by 136 mm.
Its muscular design that
interacts with aggressive outlines, makes this Concept Car a total new
proposal that heightens the standards of the Lamborghini Design language.
An uncompromising car – as
in Lamborghini tradition – inspired by the mythical open racing cars of
the Fifties that used to race the Targa Florio or in the Carrera Panamericana.
An extreme and exclusive car also in its upholstery: the streamlined headrests
integrate the mobile air intakes and the asymmetrical leather cladding
– the right hand side being in a different colour and material compared
to the left hand side – thus enhancing the driver oriented cockpit so as
to make it a real “Pilot Oriented Driving Machine”. Another feature worth
noting is that different structural parts of the chassis have been re-designed
to ensure an adequate torsional stiffness even though roofless.
The Lamborghini Concept Car
displayed in Detroit continues the tradition of the famous open 12-cylinder
models of the “House of the Bull”: from the 350 GTS to the Miura Roadster,
up to the Diablo Roadster. |
