Re: Pretty simple really. Made me laugh *NM*

A UT truck driver who won a Lamo LP-640 and crashed it the same day: D'oh

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probably his father, who happens to also be his uncle. What's the Italian equivalent to a U-boat?

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This is the german version of the U-Boat Driver:

[video]http://youtu.be/-aRr7XgY2sk[/video]

since there is snow in the picture of this dufus with his new lamb, i will assume that the temps are near freezing. i will also assume that the lambo has nice, wide, high-performance tires. mix those two together and add 631 horsepower. throw in a guy who has probably never driven anything better than a mid-nineties camaro and you have the perfect recipe for a crash.

how can we (society) put "joe schmoe" (read the sign in his photo) into a rocket propelled vehicle without even 5 minutes of education?

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2011 12:19AM by Laz. (view changes)

... the article states: " ... the V-12 powered Italian supercar named for a famed Spanish fighting bull ..."
The Murcielago is named after the bat (as in the flying rat type), not a famed Spanish fighting bull (which is the Miura).
No one fact checks anymore?
Happy Porscheing,
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

Yeah, I recall early articles referring to the moving side intakes that evoke a bat. However, Car and Driver recently referred to a namesake bull. For what it's worth, here's the Wiki entry concerning the car:

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There's also a related entry concerning the bull.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2011 10:19AM by Laz. (view changes)

They also got the price horribly wrong. Isn't it more liked in the mid- to hi-$300s? They had it at $200K.

Murcielago (see wikipedia). I remember reading that when the car was introduced. It's still confusing, why would you name a fearsome fighting bull after a bat, oh well.


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They got the idea from here.

"Bat out of hell," maybe, even though that's likely not an Italian or Spanish colloquialism.



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letting anyone know I was that dumb. Poor Ole Joe or it's it Mo

The car ended up in a field which will no doubt be referred to as... Lambo Field!

... I wanted to know the full story, so I investigated a bit.
After WWII ended Signore Ferruccio Lamborghini returned home to Italy and started a small tractor manufacturing facility which he named after his family: Lamborghini and used a bull as his logo.
Tractor sales grew which prompted Signore Lamborghini to build a larger plant in 1949 and then again to an even larger one in 1969.
But by 1962 Signore Lamborghini decided to start devesting himself fdrom tractors, which he ended up selling a few years later and building the best sports car in the word.
Since his logo was a bull, he decided to name one of his first cars after the most powerful bulls in the world: the Spanish Miura bulls, hence, the Lamborghini Miura.
He started naming many of his cars after bullfighting themes, such as the Espada (sword), Jarama (bullfighting region in Spain), the Jalpa, another line of fighting bulls, as is the Gallardo and the Urraco.
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When he introduced the Murcielago he named it after the strongest and fiercest of all Miura bulls: Murciélago who had survived 28 sword strokes in a 1879 bullfight which prompted the crowd to have the matador spare his life.

I did not know that.
Happy Boxstering,
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

There was a "Jota" racing prototype, built in 1970, I think, and based on the Miura. Jota is a Spanish musical dance form, so it's not inspired by bullfighting, although I wonder if the dance itself has something to do with a matador's moves. By the way, anybody remember "Matador" by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs?

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... Was a one-off prototype based on the Miura and made to conform to FIA's racing appendix "J".
Jota, as you know is the Spanish pronounciation of the letter J.
So apparently it was named for an racing regulation appendix, and not a Spanish dance step.
Happy Boxstering
Pedro

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

just how many other men, aside from the two I now know of, have built tractors and then ended up building terrific sports cars.

Pedro Bonilla
1998 Boxster 986 - 311,000+ miles: [www.PedrosGarage.com]
PCA National Club Racing Scrutineer - PCA National HPDE Instructor - PCA Technical Committee (Boxster/Cayman)

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Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar

"Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting" ... Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney in "LeMans"

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older"... Mario Andretti

"Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose" ... Ayrton Senna

By the way, the car was a "Lambo"... the driver was a "Lamo"