Lamborghini Murciélago

This is the catalogue record of the Lamborghini Murciélago, one of 96 models Lamborghini has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2001. 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 Murciélago properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Honda Honda Fit, the Mazda Mazda6, the Citroën Citroën C3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lamborghini Murciélago reads like this: the record lists its engine as 6.2 L–6.5 L Lamborghini V12; quoted output is 427 kW (2001–2005) / 471 kW (2006–2010) / 478 kW (LP 650-4 roadster) / 493 kW (LP 670-4 SV); kerb weight is recorded at 4058 lb / 4100 lb Roadster / 3850 lb LP 640 / 4100 lb LP 640 Roadster / 3850 lb LP 670-4 SV; drive goes through 6-speed manual transmission / manual / 6-speed e-gear Electrohydraulic manual transmission / automated manual; the layout is Longitudinal, mid-engine, all wheel drive. 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. Production is recorded at 4,099 units, which makes it a limited-production machine by any standard.

Its place in the Lamborghini story

Within Lamborghini's own catalogue the Lamborghini Murciélago sits alongside the Lamborghini Calà (1995), the Lamborghini Marco Polo, the Lambo 291, the Lamborghini 350 GT. The record names the Lamborghini Diablo as its predecessor and the Lamborghini Aventador as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Luc Donckerwolke (original design) / Filippo Perini at Lamborghini Style Center (facelift). 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

The catalogue records what the Lamborghini Murciélago was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.