Writes about grand tourers, luxury flagships, and the finer side of automotive life. Believes a great GT should be as comfortable crossing continents as it is crossing the speed limit.
Forty-seven Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo cars lined up at Monza for the opening round of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe season. That number alone deserves attention. The series, which began in 2009, opened its latest chapter with the largest grid in its history, a figure that woul
Forty-seven Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo cars will line up at Monza this weekend for the opening round of the 2016 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe. That figure represents the largest grid in the series’ eight-year history, with 22 teams fielding 70 drivers across two 50-minute races shari
Twelve months after the Grasser Racing Team rolled two Huracán GT3s onto a Monza grid for the car’s competitive debut, Lamborghini’s customer racing operation looked almost unrecognizable. By the start of the 2016 European season, the program spanned more than 20 customer teams running 40 cars acros
For most automakers, a 50th anniversary means a special edition or a heritage rally. Lamborghini chose abstract painting. The company opened its museum in Sant’Agata Bolognese to Alfonso Borghi, a self-taught artist from Campegine near Reggio Emilia, for an exhibit titled Velocità e Colore (Speed an
In March 2016, Lamborghini introduced Track and Play, an official accessory that gave Aventador and Huracán owners something previously reserved for race teams or cobbled together from aftermarket parts: integrated telemetry synchronized with video, developed by the factory itself. A dedicated contr
When the Piero Taruffi racetrack in Vallelunga hosted the first official pre-season test days for the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe series on March 22 and 23, 2016, the story was not written in lap times. It was written in the sheer number of Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo cars crowding t
Five Lamborghini Squadra Corse customer teams rolled eight Huracán GT3s onto the 5.7 km Circuit Paul Ricard layout for the official Blancpain GT Series test days in March 2016, and the results told a clear story before the season even started. Barwell Motorsport’s N. 78 car, with official test drive
In fiscal year 2015, Lamborghini crossed a threshold it had never reached before: 3,245 cars delivered worldwide, a 28% jump over the 2,530 units sold in 2014 and the first time the company broke through 3,000 annual sales. Turnover climbed even faster, rising 39% from €629 million to €872 million,
Lamborghini pulled the cover off the Huracán LP 610-4 Avio at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, where it shared the stage with the $1.9-million Centenario, a 40-unit hypercar celebrating Ferruccio Lamborghini’s 100th birthday. The Centenario grabbed the headlines. The Avio, limited to 250 examples, was th
Lamborghini unveiled the Centenario at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show as a centenary tribute to founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, born April 28, 1916, in Renazzo di Cento. All 40 units, split evenly between 20 coupes and 20 roadsters, were already sold before the car was officially revealed. At an original
