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Lamborghini has announced its new Lamborghini Academy dates for 2009. With courses open to all sports car enthusiasts as well as Lamborghini owners, the track driving schools provide an extraordinary opportunity to experience the full potential of Lamborghini cars, alongside the Italian super sports car manufacturer?s professional instructors.
The Track Academy course provides an entry into the Lamborghini Academy world. Held at various European race tracks from Spring 2009 onwards, participants? driving skills are improved alongside a professional driver instructor, while exploring the full potential of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4.




The Advanced Academy is the top level programme, and concentrates on optimum control and performance on the race track, fully supported by a professional in-vehicle telemetry system. Driving is undertaken in the Gallardo LP 560-4 and the Murciélago LP 640: the fastest and most extreme super sports car in its class.
All classes include technical and safety briefings, followed by handling and performance exercises, with instruction on how to get the ?ultimate kick? from race track driving! Participants improve their handling and feel of Lamborghini?s permanent four-wheel drive cars, learn to manage understeer and oversteer; practice manoeuvres with and without ABS and ESP; master ?controlled drifting? and, of course, find the ideal ?racing line? on track.




As a reminiscence of this experience each individual participant gets his own in-car-video with footage of the whole driving day as well as a photo CD of all the action of the day on the race track.
Lamborghini Academy courses start from 3,900.00 euro, including accommodation, cars at the race track and all driving instruction, but excluding travel. For full details, go to www.lamborghiniacademy.com, or contact your local Lamborghini dealer.

The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo took to the track in Adria, Italy for its latest official testing session this week. The new Super Trofeo race car had extensive tests of braking components and tyres, to ensure the car?s speed and reliability for the forthcoming season.

Over 270 kilometres of full-bore testing went smoothly during the day at Adria International Raceway, further proof that the Super Trofeo will be the racing series to beat in 2009.

Lamborghini?s official test driver Giorgio Sanna completed more than 100 laps on the drying circuit during the day, initially optimising the car for wet weather conditions in the morning, before driving an entire race distance in the afternoon. This was a real simulation of the stresses the cars will experience when the season kicks off at Silverstone in May.

The Lamborghini development team was pleased to report that the day went well. ?We came to Adria to primarily test the performance of the brakes and tyres, as well as component reliability in a full race simulation,? said Sanna. ?Adria is ideal for this kind of testing, as there?s lots of continual up-and-downshifting through the gears, especially second, third and fourth. It?s also really hard on the brakes of all cars that visit, because of the tight corners, so we?ve learnt a lot.?

?We?ve got lots of data to look at ahead of the May race weekend, and there?s even more to come from the car in terms of performance,? he added. ?We?ll be testing at Barcelona next, a very different circuit with very different conditions.?

?The test at Adria went very well indeed, so I?m confident of the car?s reliability and performance when the start lights go green at Silverstone in only a few months? time,? said Manfred Fitzgerald, Director of Brand and Design for Lamborghini. ?We?re well on track to achieve the speed and performance expected of a
Lamborghini race car, so we can address any potential issues well before the season opener to ensure a great spectacle for fans, as well as great racing for our drivers.?




The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo will debut in May 2009 featuring the Lamborghini Super Trofeo: a lightweight version of the Gallardo LP 560-4. The Super Trofeo will come with a reworked chassis and a power output of 419 kW (570 hp) from its V10, ?Iniezione Diretta Stratificata? engine. The race car will feature Lamborghini?s permanent four-wheel drive, making the Super Trofeo the only one-make, all-wheel-drive motorsport series.

Luxury Swiss watchmaker Blancpain is title sponsor. The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo will run over 6 European race weekends, alongside other prestigious series such as the FIA GT Championship and DTM. Either one or two drivers per car can register for the series, comprising of free practice and a qualifying session, and three 40-minute races during the race weekend.

The first race weekend of the 2009 provisional calendar will run on 02-03 May at the Silverstone circuit in the UK, followed by Adria in Italy on 15-16 May; Nuremburg?s Norisring in Germany on 26-28 June; Spa in Belgium on 23-25 July; Barcelona?s Circuit de Catalunya in Spain on 19-20 September; and culminating on 03-04 October at Paul Ricard, France.

The museum and flagship store of Automobili Lamborghini is featured in the new Wallpaper* City Guide: Bologna (Phaidon Press, EUR 8.95), one in a series of pocket-sized insider guides for the design-conscious traveller. The Wallpaper* City Guide: Bologna describes the Northern Italian city close to Lamborghini?s home town as a fascinating mix of great tradition and vibrant modernism.

The Wallpaper* City Guide: Bologna is bound in black, which happens to be a classic Lamborghini colour, ? more than any other, of course, the Lamborghini brand represents uncompromising design and extreme sportiness. The City Guide features the ultimate places to enjoy art and architecture and to sleep, eat, drink, shop, exercise and relax in the city.




The guide takes the reader through Bologna and praises it as a ?city with its heart in the south? with a ?laid-back lifestyle? and a vibrant economy. The guide highlights must-see aspects of one of Europe?s most fascinating cities, from historical and modern architecture such as Piazza Maggiore, new ?design-led hotels? including Art Hotel Corona D?Oro, and ?cutting-edge cultural venues? such as MAMBo. In the ?Sports and Spas? section of the guide, there is a recommendation to visit Automobili Lamborghini in neighbouring Sant?Agata Bolognese.

WALLPAPER* CITY GUIDES are compiled by the travel experts at Wallpaper*, the international design, fashion and lifestyle magazine, and published by Phaidon Press, the world's leading publisher of books on the visual arts (www.phaidon.com).

The Wallpaper* City Guide: Bologna is now available in all good book stores, in the Collezione Automobili Lamborghini flagship store in Sant?Agata Bolognese, priced at EUR 8.95 / USD 9.95 / GBP 4.95 and on-line: www.lamborghinistore.com.

Alongside the new Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder, Lamborghini will present two exclusive, highly individualized super sports cars at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show. With a unique, matt-luster paint finish in matt blue and all available special equipment options, this Murciélago LP 640 and Gallardo LP 560-4 demonstrate the virtually limitless possibilities and expert craftsmanship presented through the Ad Personam individualization program by the specialists in Sant?Agata Bolognese.

"Ad Personam offers every Lamborghini customer the opportunity to acquire a completely exclusive vehicle from a unique brand ? one that is perfectly in tune with their own lifestyle,? says Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. ?A super sports car from Lamborghini is always a fundamental expression of the buyer?s personality. And that is why the highest levels of exclusivity are possible, right through to absolute one-of-a-kind Lamborghini vehicles.?

?Think the impossible? is the motto of the Lamborghini individualization program. Ad Personam offers a host of possibilities to bring a highly individual style to the exterior and the interior of a Lamborghini ? all the way through to a Lamborghini like no other.

A unique color for a unique design

Both super sports cars presented in Detroit are such highly individualized examples? painted in matt blue, an all-new, powerful blue tone with a matt-luster finish. Dressed like this, the Murciélago and the Gallardo are elegant and refined, yet extremely powerful and dynamic. This is a unique color that fits perfectly to the unique design of a Lamborghini.





The super sports car brand from Sant?Agata Bolognese is the only auto maker to have mastered the difficult and complex craftsmanship required to work with the matt-luster paint finish. Alongside the new matt blue three more colors are permanently available in the Ad Personam program: Nero Nemesis is a matt-luster black, while the matt white is called Bianco Canopus; and Marrone Apus refers to the particularly elegant matt brown finish. In addition, Lamborghini Ad Personam offers its customers complete freedom to choose any color imaginable.

Luxuriously sporty or classically powerful

In their interiors, too, the highly individualized super sports cars presented in Detroit provide a clear example of the possibilities offered by the Ad Personam program. The base color applied to the upholstery of both vehicles is black, with color contrast supplied by fine diamond stitching in the blue of the exterior paintwork. This is applied to the seats, door trim, headliner and the steering wheel. The leather upholstery lends a luxuriously sporty look and feel to the Gallardo LP 560-4.

Furthermore, the Gallardo LP560-4 shows the finest in Nappa leather in color Nero Perseus which clads not only the seats, cockpit and door trim, but also the pillars and headliners. Further accents are provided courtesy of individual elements crafted in carbon fiber. The Callisto wheels are painted in high-gloss black, providing a contrast to the matt blue paint finish.

The Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640 is one of the most fascinating super sports cars of all time, and underscores this in Detroit with a purist interior finished in Alcantara ® with diamond stitching. Not only are the sports seats upholstered in Alcantara ®, but also the entire interior, including doors and headliner. The cockpit surround is finished in carbon fiber. The steering wheel features stitched suede and carbon fiber inlays. The high-gloss black of the Murciélago?s wheels ? in Hermera design ? also delivers the perfect contrast to the matt blue exterior paintwork.

An inexhaustible range

Ad Personam offers an inexhaustible range possibilities for bringing a completely unique style to the interior and exterior of every Lamborghini. The color and trim designers from Sant?Agata Bolognese have also created exceptionally exclusive equipment offerings for the entire product range. The extended leather finish, for example, enables the allure of the first-class natural product to be raised even further. Only the very finest quality leathers are used. The seats alone offer infinite possibilities through a vast range of color options for leather and Alcantara ®, two-tone contrasts, material mixes, stitching and piping in contrasting colors, as well as the diamond-stitched pattern of the seat squabs, known as Q-citura.

The exceptionally hi-tech carbon fiber material provides a hint of the racetrack, with elements such as the control panel for the air conditioning and the hand brake boasting a carbon fiber finish. Further finishing touches for personalizing the exterior include an extended range of wheel options and brake calipers in yellow and silver.

Within applicable vehicles, Lamborghini can comply with virtually any customer?s desire in vehicle individualization. The boundaries are set, however, by Lamborghini?s own quality demands, which apply to all modifications carried out. When a new Lamborghini exactly meets personal expectations in terms of colors, materials and trim, then aesthetic perfection has been achieved.