{"id":228523,"date":"2010-01-25T21:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=49643"},"modified":"2010-01-25T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:26:14","slug":"lamborghini-shifts-focus-away-from-horsepower-to-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/228523","title":{"rendered":"Lamborghini shifts focus away from horsepower to weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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670 horsepower and a top speed of 211 mph. Those figures may mean a lot to many people but there are few places in the world where you would be able to enjoy a combination of both – and it seems like Lamborghini finally understands that. According to AutoWeek,<\/em> the company will move away from focusing on horsepower ratings and will concentrate more on using lighter materials to reduce a vehicle’s overall weight.<\/p>\n

“It has come to the point where acceleration equals consumption,” said Stephan Winkelmann, CEO of Lamborghini. “More consumption means increased CO2 emissions.”<\/p>\n

Winkelmann said that taking into consideration future government regulations that could restrict engine performance, Lamborghini will concentrate on taking extra weight out of its vehicle to increase acceleration.<\/p>\n

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Maurizio Reggiani, chief of Lamborghini’s R&D department, says that once a vehicle reaches 211 mph, there is a declining rate of return for each additional horsepower needed to push the car to go faster. He also said that there\u00a0are few places in the world where a driver can go that fast, so Lamborghini will now focus on acceleration instead of top speed.<\/p>\n

“The weight-to-power ratio will be the key factor,” Reggiani said. “We will use composite materials in the right place, when it also has the right cost, stiffness and mechanical characteristics.”<\/p>\n

– By: Stephen Calogera<\/em><\/p>\n

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670 horsepower and a top speed of 211 mph. Those figures may mean a lot to many people but there are few places in the world where you would be able to enjoy a combination of both – and it seems like Lamborghini finally understands that. According to AutoWeek, the company will move away from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}