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.
On October 13, 2014, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann stood in a conference room at the Italian Public Security Department in Rome and formalized something that sounds, at first glance, like a misprint: a supercar manufacturer becoming the official outfitter for Italy’s State Police sports divisio
At the 2014 Paris Mondial de l’Automobile, Lamborghini rolled out a concept car that confused nearly everyone in the room. The Asterion LPI 910-4, finished in electric blue and sitting on a rotating platform, was the company’s first plug-in hybrid. It was also, unmistakably, a grand tourer: lower-sl
During the 2014 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe season, an 18-year-old Italian named Alberto Di Folco, racing under the Autocarrozzeria Imperiale banner, clinched the PRO-AM Class championship with a round still remaining. The title arrived in the same year the road-going Huracán debuted a
Championship fights in single-make series live or die on margins, and the Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe PRO Class heading into the Nürburgring round offers one of the tightest battles Lamborghini’s customer racing program has produced. Bonaldi Motorsport’s Milos Pavlovic and Edoardo Piscopo hold the
On August 30, 2014, the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia series arrived at Fuji International Speedway for its third round of the season, and the weather did its best to upstage the cars. Morning rains soaked the circuit and wrapped Japan’s most famous volcano in a thick veil of cloud, turnin
On July 4, 2014, Lamborghini formally planted its flag in Poland. The occasion was the grand opening of Lamborghini Warsaw, a new showroom in the Polish capital, and the centerpiece was the official debut of the Huracán LP 610-4 for the Polish market. Automobili Lamborghini’s then-President and CEO,
Milos Pavlovic, representing Bonaldi Motorsport alongside co-driver Edoardo Piscopo, secured pole position at the Paul Ricard circuit for the third round of the 2014 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe. It was the Serbian driver’s first pole of the season, placing the Bonaldi car at the head o
Microsoft put a yellow Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 on the biggest screen at E3 in Los Angeles and declared it the hero car for Forza Horizon 2, the open-world racer set across the Mediterranean coast of Southern Europe. That alone would qualify as a solid marketing win for Sant’Agata. But Lamborghi
Lamborghini chose the Flame Towers, Baku’s most recognizable modern landmark, to stage its formal arrival in Azerbaijan. The event took place at the new Lamborghini Baku showroom situated inside the complex, and the guest list read like a cross-section of the country’s influence: politicians, athlet
When the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia Series rolled onto the tarmac at Indonesia’s Sentul International Circuit in 2014, it was not just another calendar date. The second round of the season, following the opener at Malaysia’s Sepang, represented a calculated move into one of Southeast As
