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2013 Lamborghini Reventon

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The Lamborghini Reventon is a mid-engine sports car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. It is the most expensive Lamborghini road car to date, costing one million euros. Its top recorded speed was recorded in Dubai, UAE at 356 kilo meters per hour. The official press release stated that only 20 vehicles would be sold to the public, with one additional car produced for the Lamborghini Museum. Although early rumors indicated the total number would actually be 100, each Reventon is clearly stamped with its number in the sequence of 20 between the driver's and passenger's seats.

Despite the exterior being new, almost all the mechanical elements are sourced directly from the Murcielago LP640. According to the official press release, the Reventon exterior styling was inspired by the fastest airplanes. To emphasize this, Lamborghini staged a race between a Reventon and a Panavia Tornado fighter plane on a 3 kilo meters long runway. The Reventon was in the lead for most of the race, but the Tornado caught up "in the last few feet" of the race.

The Reventon is named for a fighting bull, in line with Lamborghini tradition. The bull, raised by the Don Heriberto Rodriguez family, was best known for killing famed Mexican bullfighter Felix Guzman in 1943. Reventon means "explosion" or "burst" in Spanish, when used as a noun. In the vernacular, it is also used to define a very large party or a night in town. In automotive terms, it means blowout, flat tire when used as a noun. When it was used as the name of a bull, however, it was intended to be interpreted as an adjective, a quality or property of that bull in particular. In this last sense, Reventon means he who seems to be about to burst.
The instrument panel in the Reventon comprises three TFT liquid crystal displays with two different display modes. The instruments are housed in a structure milled from a solid aluminium block, protected by a carbon fiber casing. The car's instrumentation includes a "G-Force-Meter" which displays the magnitude and direction of the g-forces acting upon the car. The seats of the Reventon are black leather and brown Alcantara

Lamborghini has also picked up some of parent company Audi's design language. It is the first Lamborghini to incorporate daylight running lights into the headlamps. Seven light-emitting diodes at each headlamp flank the bi-Xenon main beam and stay lit whenever the car is in movement. Due to the high temperatures in the rear lower part of the car, special heatproof LEDs are used for the indicator and hazard lights, stoplights and rear lights with a triple arrow optical effect.

The first car went to Lamborghini of Las Vegas, and was allegedly sold to someone in Bahrain. On November 21, 2008, Lamborghini announced the delivery of the last Lamborghini Reventon to a British customer of the official Midlands dealer, Lamborghini Birmingham. However, Cars UK's later report disputed the official claim, and revealed that the car was delivered to Lamborghini Houston, as were two other cars.