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.
When Lamborghini’s Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia series rolls into the Buriram United International Circuit later this month for the third leg of the 2016 championship, it will mark the first time the one-make Huracán LP 620-2 grid has raced on Thai soil. For a brand that treats its customer racing pr
In June 2016, Lamborghini Squadra Corse gathered 34 aspiring racing drivers at the Autodromo di Imola for the opening training sessions of its Young Drivers Program and GT3 Junior Program. The intake comprised 14 members in the Young Drivers Program, aimed at competitors in the Lamborghini Blancpain
When more than half the cars rolling off your production line already carry bespoke specifications, customization is no longer a boutique add-on. It is the business. Lamborghini acknowledged that reality in July 2016 by opening a permanent Ad Personam Studio inside its Sant’Agata Bolognese headquart
Lamborghini delivered 2,013 cars globally in the first half of 2016, crossing 2,000 units in a six-month period for the first time in the company’s history. That figure represented a 7% increase over the 1,882 units shipped in H1 2015, and June 2016 alone set a single-month record of 416 deliveries
In May 2016, Lamborghini loaded two museum Miuras and a fleet of current Aventador variants onto a multi-day road trip from Sant’Agata Bolognese through the Pianura Padana, with stopovers in Vigevano and Aosta, before climbing the hairpin curves of state road 27 on the Grand St. Bernard Pass. The de
In the summer of 2016, Lamborghini did something quietly ambitious with its bi-annual customer magazine. Issue 18 of Lamborghini Magazine shipped with augmented reality content baked into its pages, accessible through a free companion app called “Lamborghini AR” available on Apple’s App Store and Go
When the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America series arrived at Watkins Glen International for Rounds 3 and 4 in the summer of 2016, it brought a formula that had been sharpening itself since the series launched in 2009 under the Squadra Corse banner: two 50-minute sprint races, a paddoc
A Lamborghini Miura SV, restored by the company’s PoloStorico heritage division, was named overall winner at the Cartier Style et Luxe Concours d’Elegance during the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The timing was anything but accidental. Lamborghini chose the Miura’s 50th anniversary year to put it
Lamborghini limited the Aventador Miura Homage to exactly 50 units worldwide, one for each year since the original Miura first redefined what a sports car could be in 1966. By the time the car made its public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 23, 2016, the majority of those 50 examples
Suzuka separates serious racers from tourists. Its figure-eight layout, elevation changes, and the infamous 130R corner demand commitment that few tracks in Asia can match, so when the 2016 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia series brought its grid here for the first time on June 12, the circui
