JB Car Design Gives The Murcielago LP 640 The Once Over

Since everything is turning Japanese this week with the Tokyo Motor Show, I've decided to be contrarian and focus on just how to badly screw up the Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640. I'm not the biggest fan of aftermarket tuners for a bunch of reasons, but the guys from JB Car Design seem to be a text book example as to why.

Normally if you put on the clear-coated carbon fiber hood and the J.C. Whitney look wheels on your Civic. It's because you want to make it LOOK more like a Lambo or something. Likewise if you want to screw on turbos and big brakes and whatnot.

Sure, a Murcielago's looks might be a bit over the top for some, but performance wise, there's not much improvement to be found. So you and I might look at a Murcielago LP-640 and say, "Gimme the keys!!" But not they people at JB Car Design. Oh no, they saw ways they could "improve" things.

Out back where the engine lives, the German aftermarket firm gives you two tuning options. The first package will cost you €28,000 (lazy Americans can go do your own conversions) and will get you a V 12 that is now cranking out 710 HP. Engine option two bumps the plants output to an even healthier 750 HP. Although they didn't say how much option two will set you back, they did mention that the Lambos top speed will now be 230 mph.

Exterior-wise JB Car Design first paints the Murcielago a color they call "Blood to Black Diamond" (sound of your humble writer banging his head against desk). Naturally, there's the totally off the hook body kit too. You got yer front and rear spoilers, rear diffuser, side skirts with big honkin' air inlets, and the straight off of the Civic carbon fiber hood as well as a new cover for the engine bay.

Hey, wait a second ... "Blood to Black Diamond"? Wasn't there a Kiss song called " Black Diamond"? Why yes there was!

Anyway, the whole shootin' match sits on three-piece 20-inch Schmidt Revolution alloy wheels wrapped with Michelin boss meats; 265/30 R20 up front and 335/30 R20 out back. Honestly guys, the last time I saw wheels like that were in a Cheech & Chong movie. The inside? The usual; carbon fiber trim here, suede and leather materials there.

The whole thing will set you back €500,000 or around $740,000 at today's exchange rates (there I did it for you), but on the upside, that does include the cost of a new Murcielago LP 640.

Source: CarScoop