Named after a famous breed of fighting bull, the V-10 Gallardo has been Lamborghini's sales leader and stable-mate to a succession of V-12 flagship models — first to the Lamborghini Murciélago ( 4, 099 built between 2001 and 2011 ), then to the current flagship Lamborghini Aventador.

The Miura was originally conceived by Lamborghini's engineering team, who designed the car in their spare time against the wishes of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini, who showed a preference towards producing powerful yet sedate grand touring cars, rather than the racecar-derived machines produced by local rival Ferrari.

During 1965, Lamborghini's three top engineers, Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani, and Bob Wallace put their own time into the development of a prototype car known as the P400.

Based on the Marzal show car, displayed at the 1967 Geneva Auto Show, and the Bertone Pirana, a radically rebodied Jaguar E-type, it was to fill the spot of a true four seat car in Lamborghini's lineup, which already included the 400GT and Miura.

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.

Gandini designed Lamborghini's Miura and Countach and many practical cars as well, including the Citroën BX, the first-generation BMW 5-series, the Innocenti Mini, and the Renault Supercinq.

The first 350 GT frame was fabricated by Neri and Bonacini, who continued to act as Lamborghini's chassis supplier until production of the 350 GT was underway, when the job was turned over to Marchesi.

It was styled by Peruvian-born Belgian Luc Donckerwolke, Lamborghini's head of design from 1998 to 2005.

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 Sánchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain.

Although the standard V12 engine was used, stylists from the Versace fashion house, and Lamborghini's Ad Personam program, collaborated to design custom interiors finished in two-toned Versace leather.

It was later confirmed by Stefan Reil of Audi's quattro GmbH subsidiary that the new 5. 2 litre Lamborghini V10 does share technologes with the Audi 5. 2 V10 engine, as is evident by Lamborghini's usage of Audi's Fuel Stratified Injection, and 90 mm cylinder spacing.

Since Carrozzeria Touring, the company that designed Lamborghini's chassis, was bankrupt, Carrozzeria Marazzi was the next logical choice as it was funded by Mario Marazzi, an old employee of Touring.

Originally, BMW commissioned Lamborghini to work out the details of the car's chassis, assemble prototypes and manufacture the vehicles, but Lamborghini's financial position meant that BMW reassumed control over the project in April 1978, after seven prototypes were built.

1991 would be a very difficult year for the team, as aside from the drivers regularly failing to qualify their cars, finances quickly become an issue after Lamborghini's once off investment in the team had dried up.

Lamborghini's all-new 6. 5 litre engine for their 2011 Aventador produces.

The Singapore Limited Edition is a limited ( 10 units ) version of Gallardo LP 550-2 in Singapore, celebrating 10 years of Lamborghini's presence in Singapore.

Horacio Pagani, who formerly managed Lamborghini's composites, founded Pagani Composite Research in 1988.

The 924 was originally intended to be Volkswagen's flagship coupé sports car and was dubbed " Project 425 " during its development.

The police station, bus station, Ford garage and multi-storey car park will be demolished to make way for 22, 000m < sup > 2 </ sup > of retail space and 2, 000m < sup > 2 </ sup > of leisure facilities, consisting of a flagship department store, six-screen cinema, hotel, 37 individual shops and 56 apartments.

Auto companies usually have a flagship in the form of their leading, highest-priced car.

The term " halo car " is often used in automotive marketing and journalism to refer to the flagship vehicle.

As a road car, superseding the Delta HF Turbo as the flagship of the Delta range — S4 excepted — the HF 4WD had a lot to live up to.

In 1942, with passenger car production much diminished on account of the war, he took over as Production Director at the company's flagship truck plant at Brandenburg.

Bonneville would continue its flagship duties on the downsized big car line that was introduced for 1977.

The Toyota Avalon is a full-size car produced by Toyota in the United States, and is the flagship sedan of Toyota in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Middle East.

It was billed as the flagship of the Mercedes-Benz car line, and the successor to Mercedes-Benz's original high-performance sedan, the 300SEL 6. 3.

Built at a cost of A $ 12 million, this facility consists of seven huge sheds, including one the size of an aircraft hangar, within which are housed such recently-rediscovered artifacts as a section of the mast of HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, and the spare wheel from Bluebird, the car Donald Campbell drove to break the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in the 1960s.

** Lightning GT, the flagship vehicle of the aforementioned car company

The car was launched in North America in 1995 as the Mazda Millenia, and replaced the 929 as Mazda's flagship sedan offering there.

It was BMW's flagship car and had an electronically limited top speed of 155 mph ( 250 km / h ).

Were executed hundreds of drawings, sketches and scale models started as early as 1980, was eventually selected and developed the design of the Fiat Style Centre that best responded to the theme given to investigate a car destined to a particular user, " select and elite " a real flagship miniature desired by women as much as a handbag and signed by the men as their favorite perfume.

Honda originally created this plant to exclusively build its flagship car, the NSX, but added the S2000 and Insight to the production line-up at the beginning of the 21st century to maximize production output necessitated by NSX's waning sales.

Intended to be Cadillac's flagship sports car, the XLR was based on the Chevrolet Corvette's Y platform.

Their first flagship car, the Toyopet Crown, was unsuccessful in the US market, and was withdrawn, leaving only a single vehicle, the Land Cruiser.

The company's flagship car is the Ariel Atom, an extremely light, high performance car.

Above the Royale range was added in 1989 the Daewoo Imperial flagship luxury car, which styling was reminiscent of the contemporary Chrysler Imperial and New Yorker, but also luxury Japanese sedans.

The Q45 was no longer imported from Japan after the 2006 model year, making the M45 the flagship car of the Infiniti marque.

The Škoda Superb is a large family car primarily built by the Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto as its flagship car.

The first company to do this was Saks Fifth Avenue which received the zip code of 10022-SHOE for the eighth floor shoe department in its flagship Fifth Avenue store.

The flagship received no less than eighty-two cannon blows and was repaired in the same war zone.

The Italian battleship Roma, flagship of the Italian fleet, received two hits and one near miss, and sank after her magazines exploded.

At the age of thirteen he joined the flagship of Admiral Cornwallis in the Channel fleet as a first-class volunteer, in 1806 became a midshipman, and in 1810 received promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the frigate Alexander, which spent the next three years in the protection of the Spitsbergen whale fishery.

A year later, on 20 November 1811, he received a significant elevation to Flag Lieutenant on HMS Arethusa, the flagship of his uncle, now Vice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.

The flagship store is located in the Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne and received a $ 300 million dollar redevelopment which officially opened in April 2011.

More rounded styling cues marked all 1967 Olds 88 models which received longer hoods and shorter decks and more sweeping fastback rooflines on 88 Holiday coupes to emulate the styling of Olds ' front-wheel-drive flagship, the Toronado.

In 1999, Audi's flagship received new colours, and restructuring of option packages.

Over the next several years, the company became much smaller, replaced most of its staff and board, relocated to San Mateo, California, received new venture capital investments, and, in 2004, changed its name to Levanta ( the name of its flagship software product ).

Nissan sought to elevate the status of the DR30 Skyline as their new flagship model in light of this success, and it received a generous amount of changes to distinguish it from lesser Skyline models in August 1983.

Management believed that the network's flagship station, CFTO-TV in Toronto, received favouritism in the production of CTV's Canadian programming in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Before the departure of that first mission in December 1775, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Navy, Commodore Esek Hopkins, received the yellow rattlesnake flag from Gadsden to serve as the distinctive personal standard of his flagship.

However, on the outbreak of World War I some months before that, when Callaghan was at sea on his flagship, the battleship HMS Iron Duke, his successor-designate Sir John Jellicoe received orders to immediately relieve the aging Callaghan of command of the fleet.

In 1755 he became lieutenant in Admiral Sir Edward Hawke's flagship St George and he soon received a small command, which led gradually to higher posts.

The flagship H3-45 received some further enhancements in 2006 with GPS and destination sign options.

** Weatherscan Local has been simplified to " Weatherscan " and has received entirely new graphics, using Frutiger as the flagship typeface.

WAMI-TV, or " Wami " as it was called, in its 2½ year run as the flagship station of USA Broadcasting, received 18 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards and 22 Promax Awards.

Well into the 1960s, many viewers northeast of Hartford used outdoor VHF antennas to watch NBC programming via WBZ-TV in Boston, while viewers southwest of Hartford with outdoor TV antennas received NBC via network flagship WRCA-TV ( now WNBC ) in New York City ; reception was often spotty.

He was on detachment with Prince Rupert's Green squadron, when on 11 June 1666 the great Four Days ' Battle began, but returned to the main fleet in time to take part on the final day, and in this action when his flotilla was surrounded by that of Vice-Admiral Johan de Liefde he received a wound — being hit first through the cheek and then in the left shoulder by musket balls fired by a sharpshooter when his Victory was challenged by De Liefde's flagship, the Ridderschap van Holland — of which he died shortly after returning to London.

With the prospect of war with the Dutch looming in 1787 he received an appointment to, which was being prepared as the flagship of Admiral Hugh Pigot.

He finally received his long-awaited commission as lieutenant on 21 September 1790, and an appointment to Jervis's flagship.