Aeronautic influence creates lighter, stronger carbon tub for Aventador replacement.
You’d be forgiven for picturing the worst when thinking of Lamborghini and carbon fibre, but the good folk of Sant’Agata have been pretty pioneering with the black stuff over the years. Then did awful things to Uruses with it. The Aventador was carbon tubbed, don’t forget, and Lamborghini actually patented and used Forged Composites as far back as 2008. , Lamborghini says it has employed carbon fibre in a unique way.
Specifically, the monofuselage is said to be 10 per cent lighter than the Aventador’s chassis, with torsional stiffness up 25 per cent to 40,000Nm per degree, ‘guaranteeing best-in-class dynamic capabilities’. The old aluminium front subframe has gone, too, replaced by a carbon item - Lamborghini says this new model is the first super sports car to be fitted with one - which further benefits to weight and rigidity. A CFRP rocker ring ‘encloses and connects the Forged Composite elements’.
Even where aluminium is used , there’s a focus on less weight and more stiffness. Plain old autoclave, prepreg carbon is going to be employed for the roof; Lamborghini has decades of experience there, of course, but just as importantly the more traditional method ‘gives the customer maximum versatility in roof customisation’. So it’ll still be an old-school Lambo in some regards.
So significant is the chassis overhaul, in fact, that Lamborghini believes the LB744 represent ‘year zero’ for a new era of carbon in cars - a whole reset. No doubt other supercar manufacturers would have something to say about that, but then it wouldn’t be a new Lamborghini without some swagger. There’s even a new acronym for the fresh start: AIM, or Automation, Integration, Modularity. The details of which involve lots of complex phrases like ‘preheated polymers’, ‘compression moulding’ and ‘discipline of composites’; stick with it, though, and the interesting stuff comes under Modularity, where Lamborghini talks of more flexible technology ‘to respond to all the product requirements and characteristics’.
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