Lamborghini Sesto Elemento

The Lamborghini Sesto Elemento was originally revealed as only a technological showcase concept at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. Apparently some extremely wealthy people who are bored of their Enzos and McLarens pushed on Lamborghini to put the Sesto Elemento into production. The buzz generated was so great that Google Trends, a Google product that tracks search trends, had a 60x spike in Lamborghini Sesto Elemento searches in September of 2010, right after the initial presentation at the Paris Motor Show.

After the Paris Motor show all of our oil tycoon, ponzi scammer, and Hollywood friends thought it would be wise to help stimulate the global economy by turning their attention to Lamborghini and pushing them to make what will become the most expensive production car in the world. Lamborghini recently announced at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September that they will produce only 20 versions of this car. So unless you plan to get a capital infusion from Warren Buffet, I would scratch this one off your list.

The Sesto Elemento was originally designed around the Gallardo but built differently by being placed on a new all carbon technology that Lamborghini was itching to try out. The technology enhancements consist of a number of resin jellies, carbon composite materials, special hi-tech fabrics and a bunch of other new things that are interesting only if you have a degree in chemistry, but what’s truly spectacular to me is that the resulting car weighs in at exactly 999kg. That’s less than the weight of a Ford Focus, 40% lighter than the 1650kg Lamborghini Murcielago and 25% lighter than the Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera, an already light, stripped out, Gallardo that weighs a cool 1340kg. To put the weight into perspective from the other side, the Sesto Elemento weighs only twice as much as the Ariel Atom, which is essentially just a glorified go-kart.

Vehicle weight is not the best measure of anticipated head explosions, that is, until you factor in the power plant that will be propelling this beast. The Sesto Elemento will share a tuned version of the Gallardo’s mid-mounted V10, producing 570 horsepower and 398 ft-lb of torque that breaks your neck by going 0-60 in 2.5 seconds. With that power and low weight, the Sesto Elemento has an extremely low power to weight ratio of 1.75kg per hp. The Toyota Prius isn’t far behind (ha!) by yielding a 14.08 kg per hp, a BMW 760Li yields 5.13kg per hp, and the world renowned McLaren F1 yields 1.95kg per hp.

Not impressed yet? Have I mentioned that on top of being obscenely quick and anorexialy light that Lamborghini has also

Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Interior

installed a permanent all-wheel drive system? That’s right. Even with an AWD system, the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento still weighs less than most competing vehicles and can keep the power and traction steady as all 570 horses are put to the road.

Aside from all of the fancy numbers on paper, I would have to say that this is probably one of my favorite car designs that I’ve seen in years. Traditionally, I am usually wooed by the curves of Aston’s artwork, the finesse of Ferrari’s ingenuity or the elegance of Rolls Royce but Lamborghini’s taken a totally different route with the Sesto Elemento and Aventador. Both of these cars feature sharp edges and clean lines that are so stunning you need to buy life insurance just to look at it. I believe that Lamborghini took a huge risk to step away from the industry design norms by making their latest creations look futuristic and menacing, but I really like it. I don’t see James Bond driving a Sesto Elemento any day, but I could totally see Chuck Norris eating one for breakfast.

There has been talk over the past few years that ever since Audi took over Lamborghini that they’re nothing but tamed bulls with R8 engines, but I think that Lamborghini’s decided to make a statement with the Sesto Elemento. Lamborghini wants to be known as anything but tame; upon entering their website you’re stopped with a warning: “Red evokes sin, guilt, pain, anger but also passion, courage, loyalty, honor, success and fortune. Do you Dare?” I would echo that question: do you dare? Do you dare purchase and drive a Sesto Elemento? Lamborghini might as well provide a letter of condolences already written for each of the 20 future Sesto Elemento owners. I’m betting that after they spend the $3+ million on the Sesto Elemento that the only thing that will remain is the tire marks of the legend that was.

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But everything changed when he met Enzo Ferrari. It was the moment when his desire to build high-speed supercars with luxurious interiors revealed itself. Ferrucio complained to Enzo about a clutch problem that the Ferrari he owned had. Enzo told him that “the problem is not with the car but with the driver…” and that he was asked to take care of his tractors and leave the issue for those who get sound advice.

A 1969 Lamborghini Espada

Disappointed through the answer received, Ferrucio dismounted the transmission of his car and found out that his car used exactly the same transmission as his tractors. Because of this discovery, he asked some talented men who worked for Enzo Ferrari including Franco Scaglione, Giotto Bizzarini and Gian Paolo Dallara to provide him help. As a result, the team created the perfect competitor for that Ferrari cars, the Automobili Lamborghini.

Ferrucio was inspired by its birth sign, Taurus, and started using it as an emblem for his cars. In fact, even nowadays the Lamborghini cars are named after bulls. The Italian company also recruited Giotto Bizzarrini, a worker who used to work for Ferrari and asked him to create and manufacture a V12 engine for Lamborghini. This engine was soon built and was able to produce 400 horsepower. But because Ferrucio wanted a GT car and never a racing car, the ability was reduced to 280 horsepower.

The very first car manufactured by Lamborghini was the GTV prototype as the first production car was the Lamborghini 350GT manufactured in 1964. After the Lamborghini 350GT, the history of Lamborghini continued using the manufacture and release of the Miura, a genuine supercar named after a well-known bull race. However the success didn’t stop here. In 1968 Lamborghini manufactured the Lamborghini Espada 400GT which was a large hit, a lot more than 1,200 cars being built at Sant’Agata.

In 1970, the race driver Bob Wallace worked to rework his Miura S right into a race car. He redesigned the suspension, reduced the weight and placed new spoilers receiving a fast race car that could range from zero to 62 mph in 3.6 seconds. But Ferrucio wasn’t thinking about the race proposal of Wallace and chose to sell the prototype from the Lamborghini Miura Jota to an Italian enthusiast. In the 1970s, an italian man, company suffered due to the economic crunch and Ferrucio sold his shares to some Swiss car lover, George-Henri Rosseti. But the company continued without its founder.

1990 Lamborghini Diablo

After some dark days and only one car produced (the Coutach 400S in 1980), Lamborghini was sold towards the French brothers Patrick and Jean-Claude Mimran who produced the off-road LMA series and the Coutach Quattrovalvole. Later, another page from the Lamborghini history was written when Lee Iaccoca bought the organization for $33 millions.

Throughout the Iaccoca era, in 1990 the Lamborghini Diablo was launched. However in 1998 Audi bought Lamborghini and things began to change for that better. Because of a large infusion of cash and technologies, the company built the Murcielago in 2001. Its success was followed by the 2003 Gallardo, which proved this was a company focused on fast, luxurious supercars designed for modern drivers. In 2010, the Gallardo was considered probably the most successful car with 10,000 units produced.

Joel Dammann writes about History of Lamborghini at his Car blog.

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I suppose the Italians tend to spell Lamborghini correctly but the rest of the world do not. Having seen the search terms that are used to find Lamborghini Diablos on the internet most people should stick to Lambos.

Here are some of the most common misspellings: lambogini, lambroghini, lambourgini, lamburgini, lamberghini, lamborgine and of course the well known Lamborghini Deablo.