Lamborghini Jota: Tease 3

Lamborghini Jota Tease 3

I know, it’s getting boring already.

The first tease we had on the Lamborghini Jota was back in June when Lamborghini sent a photo of the bonnet of a car and the catchy (and let’s not forget, original) tag line ‘Coming Soon…’. That was followed up just over a week ago with another blindingly helpful photo of the Lamborghini Jota – this time of a tail light and a bit of carbon fibre.

And now we get tease three for the Lamborghini Jota. This time it’s a set of holes in carbon fibre with some red paint round them. We’re starting to see a theme developing…

This time Lamborghini has sent us a press release telling us that their cars are going to be made better because they’re going to make them lighter. Guess how they’re going to do that? Clever you – carbon fibre.

So, we’re on tease three of the Lamborghini Jota tease, with a few weeks to go until the Paris Motor Show, and Lamborghini are breaking the news to us that they are going to reduce the weight of their cars to gain performance and reduce CO2 averages.

Which is hardly news. Back in January we wrote:

Lamborghini boss Stephan Winkelmann said, “It has come to the point where acceleration equals consumption. More consumption means increased CO2 emissions.”

And as things stand that means financial costs for Lamborghini. So the future is going to be lighter cars. That means composite materials, aluminium instead of steel in conjunction with improved aerodynamics and even stop-start. There is also a strong possibility – although not for a few years – of a hybrid Lamborghini.

Unless the whole ‘CO2 Kills the Planet’ garbage disappears. Which it could. In the ’70s we were going in to an ice age. In the ’80s acid rain was going to destroy us. In the ’90s the hole in the ozone layer was going to make the human race toast. Those ideas are long gone. Perhaps as the ‘noughties’ was the decade of ‘Global Warming’ and ‘Man-made Co2? we’re due to drop it in favour of some other man-made catastrophe for the new decade.

Despite the feeble tease and the ‘No-News’ press release we are really looking forward to the Jota.

Honestly.

By Cars UK