The Bushido

The new Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640 (the fastest Lambo ever built) will be unveiled this week at the Geneva Motor Show. Unlike the new Miura concept car Lambo showed us in Detroit back in January, the new Murciélago LP 640 will be in production by fall of '06.
Engine
LP stands for 'longitudinale posteriore', which refers to the V12 unit mounted lengthways behind the cockpit. Lambo machined deeper and wider bores on the cylinders bumping the previous 6.2-litre V12, to 6.5 juicing the output to an imperious 631bhp at 8,000. If the sounds of the engine doesn't turn heads and get the attention of the skirts you can add a glass engine cover to show the full monty of the 6.5-litreV12. Married to a brand new six-speed gearbox, which can also come with Lambo's e-gear sequential paddle shift. The Murciélago LP640 rockets from 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds - 0.4 seconds quicker than the 6.2-litre model. Lambo is tight-lipped about the top speed, but Top Gear reports the word on the street is a top of 210-mph.



Body
Lambo reshaped both the front and rear bumpers to give the car an aircraft-like aerodynamics to move air more efficiently, with the exhaust incorporated into the rear diffuser to help cancel out aerodynamic lift at high speeds. Of course, it wouldn't be the new Lambo flagship model without the Murciélago's signature scissor-opening doors, so Lambo obliged. The only thing hotter than the body on this machine will be the skirts you get to ride shotgun.



How to buy a Lambo
One of my favorite writers Michael Lewis wrote a column on Bloomberg called "How to buy a Lambo like a Wall-Street Guy. It is definitely worth the read--click here for the article.