Lamborghini has announced its new Lamborghini Academy dates for 2009, and it’s a program that is not just restricted Lamborghini owners. If you can stump up the 3,900 euro entry fee, you can rub shoulders with raging bull owners and Lamborghini professional instructors alike.

The Track Academy course is, according to Lamborghini, a top level program [...]

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We’ve not been able to confirm this information, so this is very much speculation at the moment, but Lamborghini is apparently working on a higher spec V12-powered Murcielago. The moniker LP670-4 SV has been coined by the source of the information who has spilled the beans on the soon-to-be-released Lambo.

A Ferrarichat forum member with the username ghost (apparently [...]

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Over the past week or so, we’ve shared with you the few glimpses we’d been given of the Lamborghini Estoque: a front-engined four-door supercar.  Those things seem to be all the rage right now.

Lamborghini wasn’t intending to show us all the full car until the Paris Motor Show, but a French website has gotten its [...]

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For rather obvious reasons, exotic cars like Lamborghini’s Murcielago have forever been the ride of choice for the rich and famous. But what do you do when an ordinary Murc’ ain’t fancy enough to cart your diamond-encrusted self around? Simple, you order yourself a Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Roadster Versace.

Now I’ve never been the greatest fan [...]

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Most of us would be happy just to have a Lamborghini (even for a day), and the colour of the trim and paint, or the choice of interior highlights would be of no consequence. But, for some, the devil is in the detail and the idea of buying an orange Gallardo with a plain black [...]

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With GM Holden having just announced the start to manufacturing of the Pontiac G8, it came as somewhat of a shock to this writer that Holden were now producing 620 cars a day at their Adelaide based manufacturing plant. Not bad, for a little manufacturer like Holden.

To get that into perspective, Lamborghini have just celebrated [...]

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Well, its finally arrived. The much hyped Corvette ZR1 has been officially announced today by GM along with a full image gallery and specifications. The press release is attached for those want to know everything but if you suffer ADT like myself then here are the major points of interest.

The ZR1 is powered by [...]

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In the spirit of Porsche’s GT2, Lamborghini have plans to send the current model Murcielago out in style with an ultra-lightweight rear-wheel-drive version to be called the Murcielago SV. Weight saving will be at the top of Lamborghini’s priorities and the plan is to strip up to 136 kilograms from the weight of the current [...]

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Only recently unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Lamborghini’s Reventón supercar will be heading ‘down-under’ for a Sydney International Motor show appearance and although we have already covered it a quick recap is probably in order.

Based on the LP640 the Reventón takes styling cues from the Raptor jet fighter and looks for all the world [...]

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What better way to mark the start of the Frankfurt IAA than with an introduction to the Lamborghini Reventón, named after a bull which in 1943 famously killed bullfighter Felix Guzman. As previously reported by Carupdate the design of the Reventón was inspired by the F-22 Raptor Jet Fighter.

Fitted with a 6.5-litre V12 [...]

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The latest addition to the rumour mill is that Porsche are warming up to reveal a smaller hot hatch to contend with the likes of BMW’s 1 Series and Audis S3. Porsche’s stake in Volkswagen, no doubt allows it access to the VW parts bin making development of a car like this possible.

The hot [...]

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Whats red and black has 500kW+ and weighs 165kgs less than a Lamborghini Murcielago LP640…? I’m glad you asked. It’s the Lamborghini Murcielago Superleggera (super-lightweight) of course…what else?

Thanks to the folks at The German Car Blog we can now get a better look at the new svelte and feather-weight Lambo.

Still looks like a big fatty…a [...]

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