Lamborghini Murcielago

In one of my previous posts, I featured the police of some country using luxury cars and crashing them.  Here it is no better....OUCH!!! Someone crashed his Lamborghini Murcielago! What a waste of money! Or is money nothing to them?

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Expensive crash
A Lamborghini Murcielago (right) lying totally wrecked after a high-speed accident with a BMW M5 near KM27.6 of the Elite Highway. According to a tweet, the two cars had been speeding through traffic shortly after leaving the Sepang International Circuit where the Japan GT was being held yesterday evening. 'The Lamborghini was chasing the NMW before it hit it from behind,' said ERICMAXMAN. - Pictures courtesy of ERICMAXMAN and BRYAN HOO.

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Name

In a continuation of Lamborghini's tradition of naming its cars after stars from the world of bullfighting, the Murciélago was named for a fighting bull that survived 28 sword strokes in an 1879 fight against Rafael "El Lagartijo" Molina Sanchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain. Murciélago fought with such passion and spirit that the matador chose to spare its life, a rare honor. The bull, which came from Joaquin del Val di Navarra's farm, was later presented as a gift to Don Antonio Miura, a noted local breeder; thus began the famed Miura line of fighting bulls, and the name for one of Lamborghini's greatest designs.
Murciélago is the Spanish name for the bat. The word is pronounced [murθiˈelaɣo], with a voiceless dental fricative [θ] (as in English thing), in the Castilian Spanish spoken in most of Spain. However, the Italian automaker often uses the Southern Spain and Latin American Spanish pronunciation, [murˈsjelaɣo], with an [s] sound.

[edit] First generation

The 6.2-liter V12 from a first-generation Murciélago

The Murciélago is an all-wheel-drive, mid-engined super sports car. With an angular design and an exceptionally low slung body, the highest point of the roof is just under 4 feet above the ground. One of the vehicle's most distinguishing features are its scissor doors. which lends to the extreme image. First-generation Murciélagos, produced between 2001 and 2010, were powered by a Lamborghini V12 which traces its roots back to the company's beginnings in the 1960s. The rear differential is integrated to the engine itself, with a viscous coupling center differential providing drive to the front wheels. Power delivered through a six-speed manual. The Murciélago suspension uses an independent double-wishbone design, and bodywork features carbon fibre, steel and aluminum parts. The rear spoiler and the active air intakes integrated into the car's shoulders are electromechanically controlled, deploying automatically only at high speeds in an effort to maximize both aerodynamic and cooling efficiency.

Lamborghini Murciélago 40th Anniversary Edition

The first generation cars were produced between 2001 and 2006, and known simply as Murcielago, sometimes Murcielago VT. Their V12 engines produced just under 580 PS, or pferdestärke (German: horse strength), a European unit to measure horsepower, and powered the car to 60 mph (97 km/h)

A Murciélago LP640 coupe

A Murciélago LP640 roadster