Lamborghini announces hybrid vehicle development

Hybrid system part of plan to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions by 35 percent by 2015

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sideskraper

i am eagerly awaiting the comments of the 14 year olds crying about how lamborghini should not be doing this.

June 8, 2009 10:16 am

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N20_Purge

I'm 14, so count me in for crying. NOO!!! Lambo, what are you DOING?! I bet the average MPG for a lambo is going up from like 8mpg to 10mpg when it is a hybrid.

June 8, 2009 4:44 pm

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Renegade

Yeah right, and pigs fly.

June 8, 2009 10:29 am

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bman49

Yeah I know! This is will happen when pigs fly and the US has a black president who ruins the auto business! Oh wait......

June 9, 2009 12:07 am

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HEMI426

Led lamborghini make their factory more green, but just leave it their and not in the casrs. It's fine by me if Lamborghini makes their cars more economical with things such as direct injection and lighter materials, but no electric motor. Elektric motors are bad for every car, but especially for sportscars. Imagine starting a murcielago and hearing nothing. I can't believe that anyone thinks this is a good idea, If they do this it will get even worse by making an all electric lamborghini. When Lamborgini makes a hybrid or an electric car, the destroy they brand!

June 8, 2009 10:37 am

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Prince_Ash

imagine they substitute that silent start in an electric engin with an artifical sound of a sports car lol.

June 8, 2009 11:07 am

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Prince_Ash

wow, really ? lamborghini would really make a hybrid ? i thaught super cars were all about power and no remorce for the environment and to hell with co2 emissions. but still its good to see atleast one big name in the supercar world take the first step to a hybrid version of their most likely best selling car.

June 8, 2009 11:06 am

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Renegade

The car will become the must have for hypocrite environmentalist, wonder how much a 96ft houseboat pollutes. 2 or 3 Lambos will do mr. Al Gore?

June 8, 2009 11:31 am

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motorjedi

The key word should be 'variant'. As in you can still get the rip-snorting, full-bull V12 and V10 (themselves direct-injected so you don't feel tooo bad), but if you want to show the world you have heaps of cash, but still care, there is a Hybrid available. This will do wonders for Lamborghini. The posers will buy the hybrid (at a premium over the standard car, hopefully), be as smug as their ego allows, and the purists and actual drivers (which are the minority) can have the 'filthy' internal combustion engines.

June 8, 2009 12:00 pm

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Vlad

Well said motor jedi. As for Prince Ash, better way to describe what you said about the lack of sound is to call that version, 'The Castrated Bull' in Italian....

June 8, 2009 12:58 pm

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awhk

This is gay!

June 8, 2009 1:01 pm

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Rapid

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June 8, 2009 1:30 pm

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Imasa

Lambo has no choice but to start developping these types of engines. This is the future. They have to think about where the auto industry will be 10 years from now and not wait til it's too late.

June 8, 2009 1:27 pm

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Bremen_Koenigsegg

On a related note, the picture of the Murcielago hooked up to the emissions hardware is really, really suggestive. Dodge Rams with truck-nuts have nothing on a Murcie, apparently.

June 8, 2009 2:27 pm

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radmeister

If i am not mistaken what makes a super car a super car is not what fuel it uses or how much it pollutes..What makes a super car is performance, styling and price. If they can keep their same styling ideals, quality/price but increase performance with some new hybrid system does it really matter?? As long as its an improvement who cares if it doesn't use gasoline?

June 8, 2009 3:33 pm

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theporscheguy

Sooo, you're going to blame Obama for ruining the automotive industry? Not the big three for building inferior vehicles and the unions and CEO's for their disgusting speditures? Yes, blame the guy that has to clean up the pathetic mess. Let them go bankrupt, serves them right. Hopefully the European automakers will buy them all up and tech them how to run business the proper way. They should hire Dr. Wiedeking to fix the mess, he's certainly helped a little company called Porsche make a few bucks...

June 9, 2009 3:40 pm

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