Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. has closed the first half of this year (1 January-30 June 2006) with a positive result. Sales increased during the first six months from 655 to 952 vehicles sold, 45% more than in the same period last year. This increase is due to the following facts : the market introduction of the new Gallardo Spyder, the strengthening of our dealer network and increased international clientele. « Lamborghini is on the right track » - stated Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini

The new Lamborghini dealership in New Delhi was officially opened today in India, in the presence of the President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, Stephan Winkelmann. It is the first of two dealerships to be opened in India. Exclusive Motors pvt.Ltd. - with which Automobili Lamborghini signed the partnership contract last year and which has already been operating for several months with a Lamborghini Authorised Service Centre - thus opens its first sales point today, inside the Ashok Hotel, Chanakyapuri, in the south of New Delhi, a second showroom will be opened in Mumbai by the end of 2006.

• The Frecce Tricolori fly over Automobili Lamborghini

Monday 19th June 2006: on their way back from an aeronautic display, the National Acrobatic Arrows Team (Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale) flew over Sant'Agata Bolognese, paying homage to the home of Lamborghini.

"Lamborghini. A tempo furioso" is the lastest book dedicated to the House of the Raging Bull and done with Lamborghini's complete authorisation, now on sale in English, German and Italian. It is a collaboration between Stephan Grühsem, Head of Communications at AUDI AG, and Peter Vann, one of the most famous contemporary photographers in the automotive world: With an original title, the same in all three languages, which highlights the identifiable characteristics of the brand: extreme, uncompromising and Italian.

More than 170 pages, printed on elegant glazed paper, the book tells the history of the brand, from its beginnings with Ferruccio Lamborghini, up to the present day with the new models in the range, and a sneak look at the future.

It includes an abundance of information and plenty of photographs of the models which have helped to create the history of Lamborghini (from the Countach, to the Miura and the 350 GT, from the Espada to the LM), the prototypes never built but worth remembering (as for example Marzal, Bravo, Athon, Calà and Raptor) and the new models in the range : Murciélago, Gallardo, Murciélago Roadster and Gallardo Spyder. Naturally, it wouldn't be complete without the Concept S and the latest prototype Miura Concept 2006. For fans of the models in miniature there is a chapter dedicated to these 1 :43 scale " jewels " all rigorously hand built by Egidio Reali.

How do you get 3 Hollywood stars into a 2-seater Lamborghini? Mission: Impossible? In what is sure to be the blockbuster hit of the summer of 2006, the Lamborghini Gallardo makes a dazzling on-screen appearance in the highly anticipated Mission: Impossible III (Paramount Pictures). Italian moviegoers were treated to an extra performance, when the cast arrived in 10 Lamborghinis at the movie’s spectacular world premiere in Rome.