"Feast your eyes – Lamborghini has grabbed the bull by the horns and come up with a sensational successor to the Murciélago! And Auto Express has exclusive news about the flagship supercar.

Styled in-house at the firm’s headquarters in Sant’Agata, Italy, it’s the first production model to be penned by design and brand director Manfred Fitzgerald. It borrows heavily from Lamborghini’s fighter jet-inspired Reventón, and features clean, crisp surfaces, trademark aggressive air intakes and sharply sculpted all-LED lights.

It also gets an active rear wing to improve aerodynamic stability. But the big news is under the skin. Thanks to Lambo’s latest joint venture the new car will get a carbon fibre chassis, so it tips the scales at less than 1,500kg, down from the outgoing model’s heftier 1,665kg. Reduced weight and improved aerodynamics are only part of the story, though. A new 7.0-litre V12 engine will produce in excess of 700bhp and 700Nm of torque.

However, fuel economy will also increase to around 23mpg and CO2 will fall from 495g/km to roughly 425g/km, thanks to a clever cylinder deactivation system, which operates under light loads. Top speed will be in the region of 220mph and the 0-62mph time falls from 3.4 to 3.0 seconds, as a result of a new launch control system.

Lamborghini isn’t a fan of the twin-clutch DSG-style gearbox. So, instead, a seven-speed, paddleshift automated manual gearbox will help direct power to the four-wheel-drive system. Despite the weight savings that could be had by returning to a rear-drive layout, Lamborghini confirms that the car will be all-wheel-drive. However, it will be optimised to reduce friction, and feature parent firm Audi’s torque vectoring system for even better handling.

Inside, the new design means the Murciélago’s offset driving position will be consigned to the history books. Trademark scissor doors will remain, the cabin will be trimmed in carbon and Alcantara, while luxuries will include a hi-tech sat-nav and a jet-style head-up display. The new Lambo will debut at the Paris Motor Show in October and will cost in excess of £300,000"

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Not sure if it will look like this rendering. Not sure also about Paris debut also, my bet remains on Geneva 2011. But the rumored specs sounds like a music to my ears. I am really looking forward to see Murcielago successor, it will be a big step forward, this car will be really build from a clean sheet of paper and will use plenty of interesting goodies, also there will be some cool active aerodynamic features on this car, not only active rear spoiler

 

Looks like an Estoque coupe, but in a good way. The specs sound amazing as well. Should be a worthy successor to the LP640.

 

love the front hate the back. and yes it looks like a estoque coupe

 

Well they just change their last rendering:


The back looks better on the silver rendering, the front is better on the orange one. :-)

 

I never pay any attention to those rendering, I have never seen a spot-on when they try to render all-new cars. Guess there are not so much people who really know how Murcie successor will look in reality. And whisper is that it will look simply amazing, not even close to all those rendering, it is rather hard even to imagine complete styling of this model.

 

Well I think, that back lights could be used from Estoque concept, or the front bumper.
But if Lamborghini do completely new design, I will be happy.

 

a softer looking murcielago? i feel like styling is getting less aggressive with each generation of new cars that come out

 

Rendering aside, a 7.0L V12 and 23MPG are amazing engineering feats. Anxiously awaiting this one...

 

All I can say...

Is I STAKE my reputation and contacts on the fact that this IS NOT WHAT the car will end up looking like...not even close..I am bound by secert squirle law to not reveal any further at this time..