The Lamborghini Reventon, a supercar, was first shown at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. Today is the most powerful and expensive Lamborghini model of manual assembly. Cars of such a high class are not mass-produced, Reventon has 20 copies for those who managed to order a car, plus one copy under the 0/20 index for the Lamborghini Museum, which is located near the Italian city of Bologna.
Limited edition
Later it became known that the release of Lamborghini Reventon was expanded from 20 to 100 copies, but this number is a “drop in the bucket”, given the number of people who want to have a supercar. The cost of the car is about $ 2 million, but this fact does not affect demand. Nevertheless, the company Lamborghini can not afford the release of Reventon even in a small series, since the model will immediately lose its exclusivity.
origin of name
The name "Reventon" was given to the car by the famous bull nicknamed Reventon, an ominous, fearless animal raised on the farm of the breeder Don Heriberto Rodriguez. May 30, 1943 the bull entered the arena, where he met with the bullfighter Felix Guzman. Reventon killed him, ripping open the horns of the belly and matador's left thigh.
Supercars Lamborghini are traditionally called by the names of famous fighting bulls, one way or another distinguished during the bullfight. The Lamborghini Diablo was named after the Devil Bull, owned by the Spanish Duke of Veragua. Model Murcielago got its name from the nickname of a bull, the owner of which was Vincent Perez de Laborde. Mursielago was invincible, in the end they stopped releasing him into the arena, and he became an elite bull-producer.
The Lamborghini Veneto model was named after the Veneto bull, which is furious. On August 2, 1914, a bull killed Matador Jose Sanchez Rodriguez, breaking his head with a horn.
The Aventador model is named for one of the most ferocious bulls in the history of Spanish bullfighting, Aventador. In his last fight, the bull showed so much courage that when he was killed, he was posthumously awarded a special prize for courage.
Engine
Lamborghini Reventon is equipped with a 6.4-liter LP640 engine, a 12-cylinder engine developing 660 hp. Acceleration to 100 km / h in the car takes 3.4 seconds, and the maximum speed is 340 km / h.
Exterior
The Lamborghini Reventon model, whose photo speaks of extravagance, was developed within the walls of the Lamborghini Design Center. The contours overlap with the contours of the Mursielago model and resemble the lines of the F-117 Nighthawk, an American Lockheed bomber.
Interior
The Lamborghini Reventon body is made entirely of carbon fiber, with the exception of the roof and guillotine-type doors, which are made of alloy steel. The car's interior is futuristic, the interior is trimmed with leather and Alcantra, high-quality fabric resembling suede. In addition, the interior of the car has a lot of polished aluminum. Several aviation-type liquid crystal displays are again evoking associations with a bomber. And the G-Force-Meter sensor installed on the console of the Lamborghini Reventon dashboard, which alerts about critical overloads, is also used on spacecraft launch vehicles.
Dimensional data
Lamborghini Reventon is equipped with a 6-speed manual gearbox, the overall characteristics are as follows:
- 4700 mm - length,
- 2058 mm - width,
- 1135 mm - height,
- 2665 mm - wheelbase,
- 1633 mm - front track,
- 1694 mm - rear track
The curb weight of the vehicle is 1665 kg. The volume of the fuel tank is 100 liters, gas consumption in urban mode is 32 liters per 100 km, outside the city on the highway - 15 liters and in the combined cycle 21.5 liters per 100 km.
Modifications
In 2009, Lamborghini introduced a new version of the Lamborghini Reventon Roadster coupe. The machine, like the base model, all-wheel drive, mid-engined, 4x4 wheel formula, maximum speed 350 km / h, accelerates to 100 km in 3.3 seconds. The cost of the car is 1.7 million dollars.
Odessa version of Reventon
A unique copy of Lamborghini Reventon was created by a craftsman from the Ukrainian city of Odessa, named Alexander. The thirty-year-old enthusiast brilliantly coped with the task, sacrificing his own car Mitsubishi Eclipse to his creative impulse. Lamborghini Reventon turned out to be glorious, in any case, outwardly it can not be distinguished from the original. The power plant of the Mitsubishi Eclipse is twice as inferior in its parameters to the Reventon engine, the number of cylinders is 6 versus 12, the cylinder volume is also half as much - 3.8 liters. Power is about 200 hp, quite enough to give the necessary dynamism to a homemade supercar.
The work took two years, the front end of the car turned out to be the most time-consuming, I had to create a frame in the 3D dimension, adjust the joints, the most complicated process, because the conditions of the home workshop are far from perfect. Nevertheless, when the frame was ready, the master proceeded to plating. Alexander did not have the original material, carbon fiber, so for sheathing I had to use ordinary sheet steel. The car promised to be heavy, but no options were expected. The joints of steel sheets were welded with a dotted line using a welding machine, and this method paid off, the design turned out to be quite rigid. Currently, a homemade supercar Lamborghini Reventon travels through the streets of Odessa.