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.
Lamborghini devoted 2022 to honoring its V12 engine before the naturally aspirated version ceased production with the final Aventador Ultimae. The company could have centered that tribute on the Aventador, the more recent and more powerful car. Instead, it singled out the Murciélago, and the reasoni
In September 2022, Lamborghini Squadra Corse pulled back the curtain on something genuinely new for Sant’Agata: a prototype endurance racer built around the company’s first purpose-built racing engine, a twin-turbocharged V8 designed entirely in-house. The car would carry Lamborghini into the top ti
Lamborghini brought the Huracán Tecnica in Arancio Xanto to Salon Privé at Blenheim Palace and the Concours d’Elegance at Hampton Court Palace in early September, flanking it with heritage models that read less like a random inventory pull and more like a thesis statement. A 1973 Miura P400 SVJ. A 2
At the San Marino Grand Prix, Ducati rolled a Verde Citrea motorcycle alongside the Huracán STO that inspired it and let the visual argument do the talking. The Streetfighter V4 Lamborghini is limited to 630 numbered units, with an additional 63 reserved exclusively for existing Lamborghini customer
On August 25, 2022, Lamborghini staged a private ceremony at the Lamborghini Lounge Monterey to hand over the first two Countach LPI 800-4 units bound for U.S. customers. CEO Stephan Winkelmann, Head of Design Mitja Borkert, and CTO Rouven Mohr all attended in person, a level of executive presence t
Lamborghini parked the actual Pikes Peak record-breaking Urus Performante on the Concept Lawn of the 71st Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August 2022, still wearing its orange and black camouflage wrap and “KEEP RAISING THE BAR” livery. A roll-caged, six-point-harnessed SUV that conquered 156 be
For the third consecutive year, Lamborghini commandeered a private villa overlooking the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links and turned it into something that looked less like an auto show and more like a weekend at a well-connected friend’s estate. The Lamborghini Lounge Monterey, held August 2
Lamborghini chose The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, one of Monterey Car Week’s most curated events, to pull the cover off the Urus Performante on August 19, 2022. The setting was deliberate. Surrounded by collectors, connoisseurs, and a press corps already primed by a week of blue-chip automotive
On August 8, 2022, Lamborghini gathered its most valued customers and friends of the brand at the Grand Hotel Poltu Quatu, just minutes from the company’s seasonal Lamborghini Lounge in Porto Cervo, for an exclusive summer dinner on Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda. Stephan Winkelmann, Chairman and CEO of
Lamborghini dropped the Countach LPI 800-4 into Gameloft’s Asphalt 9: Legends on August 1, 2022, but this was no routine content update. The launch arrived wrapped in a structured global competition designed to treat the car’s virtual debut with the same ceremony Sant’Agata normally reserves for a p
