Lambo flagship in line for aero tweaks

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Source: AutoCar

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Calm down; although reports circulating the internet would lead you to believe otherwise, you’re not looking at a Lamborghini Murcielago Superleggera. This is, in fact, a mule for the 2008 model year Murcielago LP640; it's in line for a few aerodynamic updates, but no more power, Autocar has discovered, and certainly no weight-saving measures.

Autocar's spy photographers took these photographs of a mysterious bespoilered Murcielago earlier this week at the Nurburgring's Nordschleife – and it seems that they weren't the only ones. Photographs of this car have been flying around on the internet, alongside claims that they are proof that Sant'Agata is working on a lightweight Superleggera version of its 640bhp flagship supercar.

It seems that they're no such thing. Our sources at Lamborghini have advised that the car is a standard Murcielago LP640 in every way barring its aerodynamics. The wing on the back of the car is part of the maker's optional track aero package, and is available on any LP640; and the reason that the doors are unpainted is that they've been retrofitted to the car recently.

The factory has made a few changes to the design of the Murcielago's floorplan in order to better manage the airflow underneath the car, to reduce lift at high speeds, and therefore to improve high-speed stability. "There will be no significant power increase for the 2008 LP640," an insider said, " and there are no plans to produce a stripped-out version."
 
Are people really wishing for a stripped out Murcielago? Take out what you want, but the AWD will keep it super heavy. I'm just glad they are improving the car. They could very easily leave it. I wonder what these improvements will do to performance number-wise.
 
Haha didn't Poverty say there was going to be a wing on the Lambo like 3 months ago, but when he said it everyone called BS?
 
Haha didn't Poverty say there was going to be a wing on the Lambo like 3 months ago, but when he said it everyone called BS?

Does it change the fact 99% of his facts were unsourced? Or that he claimed at the time, that the LP640 in question came with the spoiler as an option?

No.
 
Does it change the fact 99% of his facts were unsourced? Or that he claimed at the time, that the LP640 in question came with the spoiler as an option?

No.

Yes, I suppose if you make enough ludicrous claims, you will eventually be right once. :lol:
 
Yes, I suppose if you make enough ludicrous claims, you will eventually be right once. :lol:

In this case, it would seem that way. But really, all he did was read a little about the German article mentioning the spoiler coming in the future, and then turning it into as if the LP640 came with that spoiler when it did not as an option.

This was just luck on his case.
 
Sounds good to me, as it is another inch towards the 'classic' Lamborghini that I love. Although, I would consider myself to be in the camp that wishes for the stripped-out Murc, and hell, why not a switch to RWD? We may as well build a Murc GT-R for the streets...
 
Haha didn't Poverty say there was going to be a wing on the Lambo like 3 months ago, but when he said it everyone called BS?

Looking back at the history of it's grandfather, the Countach, and its ugly-chops father, the Diablo, any hack of a fortune teller could see this one coming.

I don't like that wing, it's too Diablo-ish.
 
Just when I was getting used to Lamborghini's without wing-like adornments, along come two at once. It works with the Gallardo, but on the Murcielago it just looks tacked on. Very aftermarket. I could just be the angle, but in general I think the Murcielago looks great with it's v1 Diablo-style sleekness. Then again, just about every Lamborghini grows wings over time. What they really should concentrate on is less weight, not downforce.
 
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