Writes about grand tourers, luxury flagships, and the finer side of automotive life. Believes a great GT should be as comfortable crossing continents as it is crossing the speed limit.
When Lamborghini pulled the sheet off the Urus in late 2017, the company faced a problem no amount of horsepower could solve. It needed to convince enthusiasts, collectors, and skeptics that a vehicle tall enough to accommodate child seats and ski bags was a legitimate Lamborghini. The answer, as Mi
Four races, eight different winners, and a championship decided as much by nerve as by outright speed. The fifth edition of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola was the kind of weekend that justifies the entire customer racing enterprise: unpredictab
On November 15, 2017, in front of the Casa Santa Marta residence at the Vatican, Pope Francis did something no pontiff had done before: he blessed and personally signed the hood of a Lamborghini Huracán RWD. The car, finished in Bianco Monocerus white with Giallo Tiberino gold stripes mirroring the
Vallelunga, Sepang, Sebring, Valencia. For four consecutive years the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final traveled the globe. In November 2017, the fifth edition came home to the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari at Imola, a 4.9-kilometer ribbon of tarmac steeped in Formula One history,
On October 27, 2017, Lamborghini confirmed that its Aventador had reached 7,000 units produced, six years after the V12 flagship entered production. The car wearing chassis number 7,000 is an Aventador S Roadster finished in Grigio Adamas, destined for the United States. That variant debuted at the
When a carmaker wants to honor its second-largest global market, it can unveil a plaque, deliver a speech, or do what Lamborghini did at The Prince Hotel in Tokyo on October 20, 2017: present five Aventador S Roadsters that could only exist for Japanese collectors. Each one-off creation drew from a
On back-to-back evenings in early October 2017, Lamborghini staged grand opening celebrations for two redesigned dealerships: Lamborghini Uptown Toronto on October 5 and Lamborghini Sterling, located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, on October 6. Both events drew VIP guests and the persona
Weeks before the Urus was scheduled to debut on December 4, 2017, in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Lamborghini rolled out a detailed historical retrospective on the LM002. The timing was anything but coincidental. By spotlighting its freshly restored museum example, chassis #12231, brought back to factory c
Michele Beretta and Alex Frassineti arrived at the Mugello circuit trailing Ferrari’s Stefano Gai by eight points in the Super GT3 PRO class of the Italian GT Championship. One race remained. According to Lamborghini, the Ombra Racing pair erased that deficit in the season’s final round, winning the
When the #63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 crossed the line in third place at the Barcelona season finale, the Austrian Grasser Racing team and its three Lamborghini Squadra Corse factory drivers secured something far more valuable than a single podium. Mirko Bortolotti, Christian Engelhart, and Andrea Ca
