RE: Oakley Design Announces RWD Aventador
Tuesday 17th May 2011
Tuning companies are not ordinarily fans of the 'less is more' philosophy, more often than not slapping on all manner of aerodynamic addenda and power in the quest to make some sort of 'statement'. Tuning house Oakley Design, however, is following a more Lotus-like approach in creating this, the Lamborghini Aventador LP760-2.
The body hasn't been entirely left alone, either. The two plastic front bumper and two rear bumper trims will be extended to aid cooling, as will the side air intakes located behind the doors. The new parts will be made from carbon-fibre, as will the new side sills with their slightly larger vents. There's also a Mira wind tunnel-developed Gurney flap to help high-speed stability.
Oakley Design Announces RWD Aventador
Tuning company reveals plans for two-wheel-drive Lamborghini - but is less more?
As the name of its planned Lambo tweak implies, Oakley (which also does tweakery for the likes of the Porsche Panamera and Ferrari 458) has decided that it's going to dump the front differential, driveshaft and other associated gubbins to make the car rear-wheel drive only. Imagine a sort of an Aventador version of the Gallardo Balboni, if you will, or a Lamborghini version of the rear-drive MTM Audi R8 we featured last year.
Making the Aventador proper-wheel drive will shave around 85kg from the Aventador's kerb weight, but Oakley goes a little further; it's going to pop on lightweight forged alloys that save 4kg at each corner, and fit a titanium exhaust system that is said to save around 30kg.
The engine tweaks are perhaps the least extensive; an ECU remap along with that new exhaust and larger air intakes push power up to 760bhp and around 550lb ft of torque - roughly 10 per cent more than the factory car manages.
There's no info on pricing, but Oakley Design says it only plans to make five Aventadors in total, and three of those have already been sold.
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Discussion
j_s14a said:
Save 16kg on wheels and 30kg on the exhaust? That's a significant saving, surely Lamborghini, whos main aim with this car was to make it as light as possible, could have done the same as standard?
Maybe not as standard but certainly an optional "lightweight" package, or perhaps Lamborghini just don't want to show all its cards in one go I.e. future variations of the Aventador, SV etc?.j_s14a said:
Save 16kg on wheels and 30kg on the exhaust? That's a significant saving, surely Lamborghini, whos main aim with this car was to make it as light as possible, could have done the same as standard?
I think they were building in future weight savings...There will be a "Superleggera" or something like that in a couple of years to boost sales...
jt racing said:
hornetrider said:
Does look like forced perspective on the car, but not on the background they have composited in, making it look more 'pointy'
Part of me thinks cool, but then 760bhp and rwd... hmmmm... I'd go for the standard car still. AWD and 700bhp should be ample to get you in trouble, never mind 760bhp and rwd only
Actually, give me an LP640
Dave
j_s14a said:
Save 16kg on wheels and 30kg on the exhaust? That's a significant saving, surely Lamborghini, whos main aim with this car was to make it as light as possible, could have done the same as standard?
I'm not sure about wheels, but the restrictions on aftermarket exhausts is far less stringent than for OEM fitted equipment.shortar53 said:
j_s14a said:
Save 16kg on wheels and 30kg on the exhaust? That's a significant saving, surely Lamborghini, whos main aim with this car was to make it as light as possible, could have done the same as standard?
I'm not sure about wheels, but the restrictions on aftermarket exhausts is far less stringent than for OEM fitted equipment.Iirc, the ones on the SV Murcielago are very very light vs the standard fitment, but also much more expensive too. Where do you stop... they could probably get it down another 300kg with 'special' parts, but the price would probably go up another £50,000...
Dave
Mr Whippy said:
...Where do you stop... they could probably get it down another 300kg with 'special' parts, but the price would probably go up another £50,000...
I would have said a lot more than that. Knocking 300kg off a car like this without having an adverse effect on NVH would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, surely? If they could really cut this to 1200kg for an extra 50k, I think there would be a significant market for it. kambites said:
Mr Whippy said:
...Where do you stop... they could probably get it down another 300kg with 'special' parts, but the price would probably go up another £50,000...
I would have said a lot more than that. Knocking 300kg off a car like this without having an adverse effect on NVH would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, surely? If they could really cut this to 1200kg for an extra 50k, I think there would be a significant market for it. It would probably become a must have option if it was offered for £50k.
Galsia said:
Fingers crossed that this guy gets a career-ending disease before he startss ruining more of these cars...
Wow. From the reaction in the thread so far it seems like you can f
k right off to be quite honest. Tuning company makes classy, non bodykitted, performance oriented modifications and you wish a career-ending disease upon him? You're on the wrong site mate.Obvious troll is obvious.
Tuvra said:
kambites said:
Mr Whippy said:
...Where do you stop... they could probably get it down another 300kg with 'special' parts, but the price would probably go up another £50,000...
I would have said a lot more than that. Knocking 300kg off a car like this without having an adverse effect on NVH would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, surely? If they could really cut this to 1200kg for an extra 50k, I think there would be a significant market for it. It would probably become a must have option if it was offered for £50k.
In either case the point was that it'd get hugely expensive pretty quickly
Titanium exhausts and forged/milled wheels won't be cheap!
Dave
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