Lamborghini has created another beautiful masterpiece for a concept car. The name “Sesto Elemento” comes from the Italian words for “Sixth Element”. Because they must meet a 35% CO2 reduction by 2015, they named the car for carbon. Sounds pretty fancy, but why name a car after literally the sixth element?
The name is important because of the CO2 reduction they must meet. While Porsche and other supercars makes such as Ferrari are tinkering with hybridization and other ideas, Lambo is going to go with extreme anorexia to cut their outputs.
The weight to power ratio of the car is impressively high at 3.9 lbs per hp. The weight is expected to be conservatively 2200 pounds, and with 750 hp. The cars powertrain is the V-10 all-wheel-drivetrain, unchanged from the Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera. Almost everything that could be made out of carbon fiber on the car is, and all this points to a computer predicted 2.5 second 0-62 time.
I’m going to assume that some people will say this car is too much, too flashy, impractical for a 35% reduction in CO2. But I think that part of what Lamborghini is. When they came out with the Murchiélago, Top Gear it said it didn’t embody the flashy hypercar that Lamborghini was associated with (Diablo and others). I think this is another one of those turning points that if the car goes right, super performance on the streets will down to who has the lightest car.
More details at: Motor Trend
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