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New Murcielago Replacement called Aventador?

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    Source: http://jalopnik.com/5689092/lamborghini-aventador-is-the-new-jota

     

    Lamborghini's filed a claim with the U.S. trademark office on the name "Aventador." Some believe it's the new name for the Italian automaker's Murcielago-replacing supercar. Below, what the name means and specifications we expect for this new raging bull. According to a select group of customers who saw the new bull-fighter at a special event this week, we're told the Lamborghini Aventador will look like a replica of the Lamborghini Reventón. It'll even use the Reventón's massive 6.5-liter V12 engine and produce a Reventón-besting 700 HP with a redline of 8,250 RPM. Also, we're told that amazing engine will be mated to a seven-speed single clutch gearbox.

    And oh, yes, it'll be light. Thanks to Lamborghini CEO Stephen Winkelmann's clarion call for weight loss, the new bullish beast will feature a carbon fiber monocoque chassis that'll cut the weight 500 lbs. from the Murcielago while upping rigidity by a whopping 70%.

    All of this should translate into some seriously mind-blowing performance — it'll supposedly make a 0-to-62 time in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 217 MPH.

    But now, to the name. For a while Lamborghini fan-boys have been confused about what to call the new replacement to the Murcielago. Some have called it the Jota. The Jota nameplate finds its roots in one of the most storied Lamborghinis to have ever existed, the Miura. The Lamborghini Miura was produced between 1966 and 1972, and represented what many today believe to be the birth of the two-seater, high-performance, mid-engine sports car. In 1970, a Lamborghini test driver named Bob Wallace used a special test mule that was named Lamborghini Miura Jota. The mule was eventually sold, and was tragically later burned to the ground after crashing on the ring road around Brescia. The name was later revived for a short period of time on the Diablo SE30 limited edition as a power upgrade. Others have merely called it the LP 700-4 — due to the 700 horses under the hood and the all-wheel drive powertrain.

    While the numerical designation may be retained, we're hearing now, thanks to folks who attended this week's event at Lamborghini's Italian home, that the name will be Aventador.

    Sure, that name sounds cool, but what in the name of Sant'Agata does it mean? It doesn't appear to mean anything in Italian, but in Spanish the word could mean everything from "fan used to blow a fire" to "a wooden fork with three or four prongs, used for winnowing corn." It also means, if we believe Babelfish, "a scourer."

     

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    Not too sure what to think about the looks of this one...

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      Haha at you guys looking at a rendering as the actual thing. Haven't you seen the spyshots of this thing in the wild? The talk about it looking rather like the Reventon is much closer to that rendering with the donated body of a Gallardo.

       

      As for the name there will be something to do with the typical tradition that Lamborghini has followed since it's early days. One thing's for sure it rolls off the tongue but no doubt saying it as it looks will be wrong.

       

      Aa-Ben-Fah-door or something.

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        That Photoshop is hilarious. Prospective customers have already viewed the car. Lucky ba....

         

        Indeed. I know a couple of guys who've gone to see the car. Any kind of camera is strictly prohibited as one would expect so no pictures of it unfortunately.

         

        Should've taken some secret spy glasses with an inbuilt camera. ^^

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