Lamborghini Aventador J
"It was the 14th of January that Mr Winkelmann asked us to do something for Geneva." "A blank sheet. Do what you want. I drew up this car in a weekend..."
Filippo Perini, designer of the new Aventador J, explains how the lowest ever built was born.
When a story begins in this manner, you cannot avoid being fascinated.
Lamborghini officially says that the appendix J ‘defines the technical specification of race cars in the various classes’- and we say it doesn’t. The J stands for Jota, the most extreme car ever produced by the fighting beull. We won’t even talk about the engine, a 515 kW / 700 hp which reaches top speeds higher than 300 km/h, because it is basically the same technology used on the Aventador LP 700-4. The real ‘thing’ here is the design.
The lines of the J are so extreme and uncompromising that you can’t believe it is a real car. But it is no concept: it is road-legal, homologated in Italy.
The first thing you notice is the roof or, more precisely, the lack of a roof. The big front windshield was replaced by two small wind deflectors. This would be already enough to make it the most aggressive car on the market. Centro Stile Lamborghini provided the design with the signature clear, precise surfaces as well as broken lines. Lines that make the exterior and the interior flow into each other. As usual, Lamborghini is all about details: the periscope-shape rear view mirrors, the carbon X that covers the engine, the doors that open upwards. All in a such an intense red that says: ‘Hey Ferrari, I’m going to eat you up for breakfast.’
Lamborghini (in less than 6 weeks!) did not just "produce" a car. They created one of the finest examples of high-technology engineering. They may have possibly made the most exclusive (it does cost 1.7 millions) motor experience ever seen. But most of all they produced a one-of-a-kind piece of art.
