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More details on Lamborghini Egoista – Walter De Silva’s homage for Lamborghini’s 50th anniversary

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Regulars here would remember that we recently reported that Italian supecar maker Lamborghini is celebrated its 50th anniversary in Sant’Agata Bolognese on Saturday 11 May. The highlight of this celebration was the unveiling of  Walter De Silva’s new Egoista. Speaking about the new Lambo, the Head of Design for the Volkswagen Group said: “I am very attached to this Italian brand, being an Italian myself. I wanted to pay homage to and think up a vehicle to underline the fact that Lamborghinis have always been made with passion, and with the heart more than the head.”

“This is a car made for one person only, to allow them to have fun and express their personality to the maximum. It is designed purely for hyper-sophisticated people who want only the most extreme and special things in the world. It represents hedonism taken to the extreme, it is a car without compromises, in a word: egoista (selfish),” De Silva further explained.

Here we have all the details of the latest car from Lamborghini–

Concept and technology

Powered by a 5.2-liter V10 engine supplying it with 600 horsepower, the Lamborghini Egoista is an intentionally unusual vehicle created by the Volkswagen Group’s De Silva led design team – Alessandro Dambrosio responsible for the exterior and Stefan Sielaff for the interior. Inspiration for the design of the new car , as per Lamborghini tradition, comes from the world of aviation, and in particular the Apache helicopter, where the cockpit can be ejected in an emergency.

“The cockpit, made completely of carbon fiber and aluminum, represents a sort of survival cell, allowing the driver to isolate and protect themselves from external elements,” De Silva explained.“We kept an eye on the future when designing the Egoista, with the idea that its cockpit could have been taken from a jet aircraft and integrated into a road vehicle, to provide a different travel option.”

The philosophy

The Egoista contains, in Walter De Silva’s opinion, all the product criteria which are part of Lamborghini’s make-up. “It’s as if Ferruccio Lamborghini were saying: I’m going to put the engine in the back, I don’t want a passenger. I want it for myself, and I want it as I imagine it to be. It is a fanatical vehicle, Egoista fits it well.”

Lamborgini’s press release reads: “If Lamborghinis are cars for the few, this one goes further. It is a car for itself, a gift from Lamborghini to Lamborghini, resplendent in its solitude. The Egoista is pure emotion, Never Never Land, which no one can ever possess, and which will always remain a dream, for everyone.”

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