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Old 10-09-2007, 09:16 AM   #1
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ALCOA, Inc.

Release date: September 12, 2007

Alcoa Wheels Selected as Exclusive Wheel Supplier to Super-Exotic Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon

CLEVELAND -Alcoa Wheel Products, a Cleveland, Ohio-based business unit of Alcoa, today announced an exclusive supplier agreement to provide all wheels for the super-exotic Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon.

Lamborghini looked to Alcoa Wheels to provide specialty wheels with quick to market processes for this truly exotic vehicle. With a limited production run for worldwide consumption, Lamborghini required flexibility of manufacturing expertise to develop a unique wheel to compliment the unique appearance and performance of the ultra-exclusive Murcielago Reventon.

Alcoa will supply directional-specific 18"x9" front and 18"x13" rear wheels forged from one piece of 6061-T6 aluminum. Each wheel undergoes extensive machining and finishing resulting in unique styling, lightweight construction and unmatched strength and durability. The wheel is also engraved with "Alcoa Forged" to identify the wheel manufacturer and production method.

All wheels are finish coated in Lamborghini Bright Black and fitted with carbon fiber "winglets" adding to the design of the wheel and complementing the overall appearance of the vehicle.

The special edition Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon launched at the 2007 IAA Frankfurt Auto Show on September 11, 2007, and is scheduled to later appear at the Tokyo Auto Show in October.

"The new Lamborghini Murcielago Reventon is anticipated to be one of the most exclusive performance vehicles ever produced," stated David Yates, Marketing Manager - Europe, Alcoa Wheel Products. "This is Alcoa's first wheel program with Lamborghini. The Alcoa Wheels team worked closely with Lamborghini to provide our premium wheel production system and methods and is proud to supply an optimal wheel for such an exclusive vehicle."

About Alcoa Wheel Products

Alcoa Wheel Products is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and employs more than 3,000 associates in seven locations globally. The Alcoa business unit manufactures cast and forged aluminum wheels for the heavy truck, automotive, and motorcycle industries.

About Alcoa

Alcoa is the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components including flat-rolled products, hard alloy extrusions, and forgings, Alcoa also markets Alcoa® wheels, fastening systems, precision and investment castings, structures and building systems. The company has 116,000 employees in 44 countries and has been named one of the top most sustainable corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. More information can be found at www.alcoa.com

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Old 10-10-2007, 12:27 AM   #2
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The latter Lamborghini Reventon searches for owner in spite of the communications, that all super-penalties Lamborghini Reventon are already sold off, this not thus. 19 machines actually are located in the use, but one more searches for its owner. Everything which is necessary it to acquire, this to appear on Innovation Cars into Ribchester (Great Britain) and to propose for it the appropriate price. Reventon, created on base Lamborghini Murcielago, left by the limited party into 20 copies; it is equipped with the 6,5- liter engine V12 with a power of 650 LS and is capable to be accelerated to 100 km/h in 3,4 seconds. Its maximum speed of 340 km/h. In actuality, "remained" of super-penalties at the present moment already belongs to the former professional football player new Makoleyu (Hugh McAuley), but it presented it in sale for the price, which is not refined. It is assumed that the owner not will call cost, but ultra-exclusive automobile will be reached to that, who actually will be able to itself it to allow. So that if you worshipper Lamborghini Reventon, in you still are chances to acquire him into the property (that, let us recall, it occurs similar type automobiles often they complex, indeed buy up already at the stage of predzakaza).
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Old 10-16-2007, 12:19 AM   #3
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The latter Lamborghini Reventon will leave from the hammer you do remember, we somehow did write about the show- stopper of the Frankfort auto-salon of 2007 - exclusive super-square Lamborghini Reventon? Automobile is released by the limited series in a quantity only of twenty copies. Many rich fans of legendary Italian stamp and simply well-off admirers of speed for sure were upset, after learning, that all two ten machines were bought up in the schitannye hours. We want to gladden those, who already took leave with the thought about the acquisition of this "betmobilya": to the tradings is advanced the latter, the twentieth Reventon. How so it did come out? The fact is that one of the buyers (eks- football player of Hugh makoli) decided to advance its of super-penalties on sale. Automobile is located in the official dealer, in the English city Of ribchester, county lancashire. The thus far starting mark, with which will begin the tradings, they hold in the strictest secret. The primary cost of Italian bolide composed one million Euro-. But it is completely obvious that the auction price of this Reventon will be much higher. So that prepare for denezhki!..
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Old 10-18-2007, 02:36 PM   #4
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Lamborghini Reventón
With an all-new body inspired by a jet fighter, the LP640-based Reventón is Lamborghini’s most extreme – and expensive – supercar ever


How do you turn a Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 into something more extreme? The temptingly glib answer is you can’t. Or possibly a counter-question: why would you want to? After all, you might think, the Murciélago wrote the book on ‘extreme’. It has one of the most dramatic shapes in supercar history. And, ramming home the point, it’s a well- known fact that old women and children still hobble/run away or faint when they see one coming towards them.

But is the Murciélago really that extreme, or is it just stunningly beautiful? I’d go with the latter. Yes, it has presence. And yes, its size and shape generate plenty of drama, but it’s actually a remarkably restrained piece of work, unsullied by any stick-on bits that might be calculated to top up its already ample testosterone levels.

You might remember that, many years ago, the same ‘clean ‘n’ simple’ descriptions were applied to the original Countach and Diablo. But there’s a grand tradition at Lamborghini – and one that owner Audi is clearly keen to keep alive – that once a design reaches a certain age, its aesthetic envelope gets pushed. Hard. But never quite this hard.

Called the Reventón, this new variation on the Murciélago takes its name, in the Lamborghini tradition, from a fighting bull (and one with a reputation, having killed the famed Mexican bullfighter Felix Guzman in 1943). It is being billed as the company’s most expensive and extreme supercar ever, and for the 20 ‘friends and collectors’ who’ve placed deposits on the entire limited production run, life with a Murciélago will never be the same again.

Or maybe it will. According to Manfred Fitzgerald, marketing manager at Lamborghini for the past nine years, now head of design, and the man directly responsible for the million-euro (plus taxes) Reventón, the decision to makeover a Murciélago was entirely design-led. So despite the identical price, it’s not a Veyron chaser. It hasn’t been made to set a new land speed record either, and it won’t accelerate any quicker than the standard LP640 or go round corners any faster.

Not intentionally, anyway, though the liberal use of carbonfibre composites and the fact that each one of the 6.5-litre V12 engines will be blueprinted (liberating a minimum 10 extra bhp, bringing the total to a guaranteed 641bhp at 8000rpm) may exert subtle influences in these areas. Still, you could argue that the LP640 is fast enough already…

Tempting as it might be to dream, this most certainly isn’t the Murciélago equivalent of the Gallardo Superleggera. No, Lamborghini describes the Reventón as ‘haute couture’, ‘a symbol of extreme exclusivity’, which is refreshingly candid at least. A bigger clue to the thinking behind it is given by Stephan Winkelmann, Lamborghini’s chairman and CEO, who explains, ‘Our designers at the Lamborghini Style Centre based in Sant’Agata took the technical base of the Murciélago LP640 and compressed and intensified its DNA, its genetic code.’

But only after a trip to the local American airbase to introduce a degree of stealth fighter loading to their collective inspiration. The dispenser of shock and awe that really caught their eye, relates Fitzgerald, was the F-22 Raptor, with its simple, angular shape, sharp edges and distinctive nose-forward canopy.

Exported to the four-wheeled realm, this translates into a more technical and edgy-looking Murciélago with interrupted lines and contorted surfaces to create a more dynamic play of light across its surfaces. The aerospace overtones account for the paint finish as well; also called Reventón, the new hue is described as a mid-opaque green/grey ‘without the usual shine’. Very Top Gun.
As with the LP640, the Reventón’s exterior is carbonfibre, glued and riveted to a carbon and steel structure. The overall dimensions and proportions remain similar to the Murciélago’s but, panel for panel, the bodywork is all new.

The heavily revised, pointed nose section features gaping jet-fighter-like ducts that cool the carbon brake discs and six-pot callipers. Further back, the doors still scissor upwards, just as on the regular Murciélago (and the Diablo and Countach before that), but the sill spoilers beneath them are functionally asymmetric – the one on the driver’s side is larger to allow an increased flow of air to the radiator; on the other side the spoiler is flat as it only has to contain the airflow below the floor.

The downforce-generating flat underbody now terminates with a highly visible rear diffuser, which, along with the adjustable rear wing, enhances stability when approaching the car’s claimed top speed of ‘over 340kph’ – that’s 211mph, unchanged from the LP640.

The airflow and section of the variable-geometry air intakes for the engine have also been modified, while the engine cover is made of glass laminate (with open ventilation slits) – all the better to show off the V12 beneath. And for lovers of tactile petrol caps, the Reventón’s is nothing short of a work of art, being milled from a solid aluminium block.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the lighting jewellery seen on the latest Audis gets an outing here, too, with the restyled bi-xenon headlight units gaining sparkling LED daytime running lights and indicators. There are LEDs at the back for the tail-lights, brake lights and indicators, too, arranged in three arrowhead shapes to mimic the theme seen throughout the rest of the new design. Being located near the exhaust and just above the engine cooling ducts, these particular LEDs have been specially developed to be heatproof.

Completing the external makeover is a striking new wheel design that sees a carbonfibre fin screwed to each aluminium spoke. The fins aren’t there just for show, either, they’re there to create a turbine effect to further aid the cooling of the massive 380mm brake discs.

Inside, Lamborghini’s favoured blend of Alcantara, carbon, aluminium and leather is stunningly resolved and, massaging the cutting-edge strike-fighter theme, the dash has no dials, only three TFT liquid crystal displays set in a housing milled from solid aluminium billet and shrouded in a carbonfibre casing. The driver can choose from three vehicle information settings and, at the press of a button, switch from a digital to a quasi-analogical display with classic circular instruments. There’s even a g-force meter that represents dynamic driving forces by the movement of a sphere on a 3D grid, depending on the direction and intensity of the acceleration. An instrument along the same lines can be found in high-performance aeroplanes, and Formula 1 teams also use a similar device to analyse dynamic forces.

At over a million euros, it would be hard to say who might be tempted to buy the Reventón – if they hadn’t already all been sold. As ever, ‘extreme exclusivity’ is a sought-after commodity. It’s something of a collectors’ item. But you’ll be glad to hear that orders have been spread fairly evenly around the globe, with only a slight clumping in the USA. One is even destined for the UK. A very rare Lambo indeed.












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Looking at that dash I feel like I would only want one if it said stuff like "Adam! Don't go this way! There's a traffic jam! Would you like me to initiate ultra jump and turbo boost?"

In the same voice as KITT from Knight Rider
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That dash stands for "buckle up Dorithy cause Kansas is going bye bye"


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