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Last Auto account – Lambo’s new Murcielago Lighter, faster supercar uses latest carbon fibre technology as cleaner 7.0-litre V12 admiral £300,000 model

Feast your eyes – Lamborghini has affective the balderdash by the horns and appear up with a amazing almsman to the Murciélago! And Auto Express has absolute account about the flagship supercar.

Styled centralized at the firm’s address in Sant’Agata, Italy, it’s the aboriginal assembly archetypal to be bound by architecture and cast administrator Manfred Fitzgerald.

It borrows heavily from Lamborghini’s fighter jet-inspired Reventón, and appearance clean, brittle surfaces, brand advancing air intakes and acutely sculpted all-LED lights.

It aswell gets an alive rear addition to advance aerodynamic stability.

But the big account is beneath the skin. Acknowledgment to Lambo’s latest collective adventure the new car will get a carbon fibre chassis, so it tips the scales at beneath than 1,500kg, down from the approachable model’s heftier 1,665kg.

Reduced weight and bigger aerodynamics are alone allotment of the story, though. A new 7.0-litre V12 engine will aftermath in balance of 700bhp and 700Nm of torque.

However, ammunition abridgement will aswell access to about 23mpg and CO2 will abatement from 495g/km to almost 425g/km, acknowledgment to a able butt deactivation system, which operates beneath ablaze loads. Top acceleration will be in the arena of 220mph and the 0-62mph time avalanche from 3.4 to 3.0 seconds, as a aftereffect of a new barrage ascendancy system.

Lamborghini isn’t a fan of the twin-clutch DSG-style gearbox. So, instead, a seven-speed, paddleshift automatic chiral gearbox will advice absolute ability to the four-wheel-drive system.

Despite the weight accumulation that could be had by abiding to a rear-drive layout, Lamborghini confirms that the car will be all-wheel-drive. However, it will be optimised to abate friction, and affection ancestor close Audi’s torque vectoring arrangement for even bigger handling.

Inside, the new architecture agency the Murciélago’s account active position will be boarded to the history books. Brand scissor doors will remain, the berth will be akin in carbon and Alcantara, while luxuries will cover a hi-tech sat-nav and a jet-style head-up display. The new Lambo will admission at the Paris Motor Show in October and will amount in balance of £300,000.

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