The Final Lamborghini Murcielago rolled off of the assembly line on May 11 of 2010, ending the cars 9 year spree of production. The final car bore the badge of the 4,099 car built, and it came out of the Sant'Agata Bolognese factory.
The final beauty beast was a LP670-4 SV, the lightest, best handling, fastest production Murcielago ever built. The final one was in "Arancio Atlas" paint, or as I like to say, fire orange. The owner of the car lives in Switzerland.
The Lamborghini Murcielago was truly one of the greatest cars of the decade. It captured minds and lap times equally and as impressively. As the Lamborghini press release stated,
"For almost a decade, the Murcielago was the icon of the Lamborghini brand, and it was enormously successful in the process. The Murcielago embodies the pure unadulterated values of our brand. It is truly extreme, uncompromising, and unmistakably Italian. That already makes it one of the legends of the sports car world. But the Lamborghini story continues. In 2011, we will take a huge step in the future with the successor of the Murcielago- with the most innovative technology and, once again, truly stunning design.
The final one was led out of the factory by a brigade of arguably the most recognizable cars of all time: the 350 GT, the Muira, the Countach, and the Diablo, as a final celebratory last ride out of the gates.
It makes me truly sad to see such an iconic car finally slip to the fate of time and memory, but its spirit will most definitely live on.
The new car that they are producing could be ready as early for an official debue in March at the Geneva auto show. The car is codenamed the Jota, but now it is said to be the LP700-4. Heres an idea what that means: In the case of the LP670-4 SV (Superveloce), the 670 refers to the horse power and the 4 is the tilt degree of the engine. LP is the engine name. So here we can guess that it will have 700 hp from the same type of engine.
Combined with the fact that the most recent concept Lamborghini came out with was the super light Sesto Elemento, we can figure that some design cues will be taken from that and given to the LP700-4. If i were to geuss what they would take, I would say the hood features and the profile of the car seem the most practical. But then again, I dont want to jusde. I'm sure they have something cooking in the lad that will take the worlds breeathe away, as the Murcielago did in 2001.
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