Lamborghini Aventador

Among the 96 Lamborghini entries in the MotorJury library, the Lamborghini Aventador holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2011. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Lamborghini Aventador properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lexus Lexus LFA, the Mazda Mazda CX-5, the Tesla Tesla Model X — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lamborghini Aventador reads like this: the record lists its engine as 6.5 L L539 V12; quoted output is 700 PS (Aventador) / 740 PS (Aventador S) / 750 PS (Aventador SV) / 770 PS (Aventador SVJ) / 780 PS (Aventador Ultimae); kerb weight is recorded at 1575 kg LP 700-4, LP 740-4 S (dry) / 4085 lb LP 700-4 (with fluids, US) / 1769 kg LP 750-4 SV (with fluids, US) / 1819 kg LP 750-4 SV Roadster (with fluids, US) / 1525 kg LP 750-4 ; top speed is given as 351 km/h; drive goes through 7-speed Graziano ISR automated manual; the layout is Mid-engine, all-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 444 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Lamborghini story

Within Lamborghini's own catalogue the Lamborghini Aventador sits alongside the Lamborghini Calà (1995), the Lamborghini Marco Polo, the Lambo 291, the Lamborghini 350 GT. The record names the Lamborghini Murciélago as its predecessor and the Lamborghini Revuelto as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Filippo Perini (original) / Mitja Borkert (Aventador S). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Sant'Agata Bolognese.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Lamborghini Aventador was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.