2008 Lamborghini Reventon review
Performance
The Lamborghini Reventon has 10 more ponies than the Murcielago, but Lamborghini gives the same performance numbers: 0 - 100 km/h in 3.4 seconds, and a top end over 340 km/h. Not that I went that fast - as noted, this particular car was a development prototype, was speed-restricted to 130 km/h, and the traction control system off-switch had been deactivated. I guess Lamborghini wanted to make sure that the fewer than two dozen journalists who were to drive this car each had their shot, perhaps mindful of the American journo who trashed the very first Diablo during a press preview drive.
No conventional manual transmission will be offered in Lamborghini Reventon, only Lamborghini's Formula One-style eGear automated manual transmission with steering wheel paddles. The Automatic mode is disabled - you do have to shift for yourself. Like all current Lambos, Lamborghini Reventon has full-time four-wheel drive. Out of respect for the car, I asked Moreno Conti, one of Lamborghini's test drivers, to take the first stint behind the wheel, to warm the car up and allow me to get a bit familiar with it from the right seat.
Apart from some impossibly narrow laneways he chose - we did have to back up once for a gigantic farm tractor - the Lamborghini Reventon felt pretty docile. And so it proved to be when I took over. It quite naturally feels a lot like the Murcielago, since underneath, not much has changed. You still sit a bit off-set to the left of the steering wheel - or at least it feels that way. You still try to remember how to best shift the eGear transmission to reduce shift shock. And visibility to just about every direction, but notably to the rear and rear three-quarters, is marginal.
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