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Lamborghini Posts $47.6 Million Loss, Sales Decline

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Conventional thinking is that in times of economic turbulence, companies of non-essential high-end products like Lamborghini would suffer greatly. For the year of 2008 at least, Lamborghini bucked that, posting both a sales and profit increase. Problems accelerated significantly in 2009 though, and reality set in for everyone – including Lamborghini. Lets take a look [...]

Geneva 2010: Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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Geneva 2010: Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera

Lamborghini’s Gallardo range is seemingly evergreen. Just as we get used to how face-bashingly awesome the latest variant is (in this case the hardcore, rear-wheel-drive LP550-2 Valentino Balboni), Lamborghini drops a new version in our laps that starts the drooling all over again. The latest long-name Gallardo derivative is arguably the best yet, and it [...]

Lamborghini LP 570-4 SuperVeloce Images Appear

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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Lamborghini LP 570-4 SuperVeloce Images Appear

We know that the March is a way off (the North American International Auto Show hasn’t even started yet) but who would turn down the chance to see a new Lamborghini early? We thought so. Rumors of a SuperVeloce based on the Gallardo have been swirling, and new images leaked on the web seemingly add a [...]

Italian Police Lamborghini Crashes

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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The exotic and high-end car destruction rampage continues! Those who enjoy seeing machinery destroyed have got quite their fill over the past few weeks, seeing the Bugatti Veyron crash into a lake, a Ferrari California crash into construction equipment, an Aston Martin crash into a tree (cracking it in half), and an Audi R8 get [...]

More Pictures of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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More Pictures of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder

The news has been coming hard and fast out of Sant A’gata lately. Lamborghini’s been one busy company, what with the new Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni (from earlier today) as well as the recent release of the absolutely astonishing Murcielago LP670-4 SV. They announced the availability of a convertible version of the new Gallardo LP560-4 [...]

Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni

To the Lamborghini faithful, the nameValentino Balboni holds a lot of meaning. Valentino was Lamborghini’s official test driver and product refinement guru going as far back as 1973, and he’s recently retired. To celebrate Balboni’s work at the raging bull, they’ve come out with a new model commemorating him in the best way possible – [...]

Lamborghini Doesn’t See Recovery Until 2011; Sales Down 30%

Friday, June 12, 2009

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Lamborghini Doesn’t See Recovery Until 2011; Sales Down 30%

Most people are pretty confident that the U.S market and global economy will begin to finally rebound and show some signs of life at the end of this year. Economists, auto makers, even the U.S government are forecasting that. Not that their record has been particularly good. But, I digress. Unlike the others though, Lamborghini [...]

Lamborghini Profits, Sales Up In 2008

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Looks like another high-end sports car manufacturer had a good year in 2008, despite the strong headwinds. Lamborghini has come out of 2008 in excellent shape considering. There was a similar situation with Rolls-Royce and it’s 2008 report. Surprising, but true! Overall sales, profits, etc are all up. The United States saw a drop of 20.3% to 741 [...]