Frankfurt Motor Show 2007

And just take a look at the photos! (As if we need to tell you to)

What the hell is that?! Some kind of bastard child of the Lamborghini Murcielago and the Batmobile from Batman begins?

Hey, don’t take that to mean I am all negative about the Lamborghini Reventon, just launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2007. In fact I love it. Or I would not upload so many photos in one blog post! There are some who are making noises about how it is just a rehashed Countach and all, but most of them drive Honda Accords, and give them a real chance of owning a Lambo, any Lambo, and their drool all the way from home to Frankfurt.

Now that we have got that out of the way, let’s look at the newest Lamborgini again. The Lamborghini Reventon is a V12 engined 650 bhp beast, and the company says the design inspiration is the F-22 fighter. To my eyes, yes, but the father is still the Batmobile, dammit.

Under all the flat panel work - all Carbon fiber, mind you - it has a Murcielago LP460 heart. Only the doors and roof are aluminum.

No chance for you to ever lay your grimy hands - unless you are George Clooney (on second thoughts, no - he’s a greenie) or Richard Branson - the Reventon is not for you. See, there are only 20 being made, and all 20 are already sold. And it would cost you a nice one-million euros.

Look at the design of the Reventon again. There are those two large almost-square grills on either side of the bumper. Looks good to me.

The Lamborghini Reventon - the name is based on a bull killed a matador - is typically low and sharp, with a carbonfibre body, and the only connection to the LP640 from the outside are the mirrors.

But the interior is all F-22 fighter jet alright. A bank of LCD displays greet the lucky driver, and there is a very aircraft-ish lighting display instead of the traditional speedo and tacho. AutoCar UK describes it best:

In a radical departure from the automotive norm, the alternate display has no tacho or speedo needles. Instead, it uses a pair of converging lines to make a digitized landing strip (not dissimilar in shape to the indicator lines on a Lexus’s reversing camera) to mark out the tacho and speedo numbers. Then there’s a wing-style indicator in each path that moves up and down with revs and speed.

More on the Reventon interior from the Automobile Magazine:

Inside, the driver faces a bank of three LCD readouts in place of the standard gauge cluster. The driver can choose among various display modes for the speedometer and tachometer; in addition, a g-force meter relays acceleration, braking, and lateral forces. The cabin itself is trimmed in copious amounts of suede and carbon fiber.

So there. Feast your eyes on the Reventon photo gallery we have got for you on this page. Sure; you and I, and all those who are covering the launch at the Frankfurt Show, can easily come up with niggles and objections to the design of the latest Lamborghini - but in the end, its a Lamborghini, its some kinda military green in colour, and what more do we need? Sad thing that only fat millionnaires will get to drive it.