Lamborghini Murcielago

By the time the company became the owner of Audi "Lamborghini", was already almost ready successor to the Lamborghini Diablo, which is engaged in design firm "Zagato". The car was planned to be called Canto, but the project has not been approved by Ferdinand Pihom, the new manager of the company, and he demanded alterations. Piech is also invited to participate in the project design department of Audi and the Italian company "Bertone".

The design company Zagato was rejected again, a similar fate befell the project company Bertone. Thus, for the new model was chosen design proposed by a designer Audi, Luke Donkervolke. Compared with Lamborghini Diablo, decreased length of the car, but the passenger increased to 40 mm in height and 25 mm in width.

The car used Lamborghini V12 engine capacity of 6.2 liters. Engine power - 580 hp. s. (426 kW) at 7500 rev / min. Such power has been achieved thanks to a new electronic control system length intake tract and adjustable phase timing. For the first time in the history of the company in the basic model has been included 6-speed gearbox.The car went on sale in 2001 at a cost of about 205,000 dollars.