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Pebble Beach 2016: Lamborghini Centenario at Quail
Moderator Patrick_y shares some photos of one of the highlights at Quail - A Motorsports Gathering. While examining the Lamborghini Centenario, he observes a few comparisons of the car to the horological world in this exclusive report for PuristSPro.
The Lamborghini Centenario was seen by about 5000 guests at Quail. The name Centenario celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Lamborghini founder Ferruccio Lamborghini. Happy Birthday Ferruccio!
The sold out carbon fiber bodied supercar is mechanically identical to the Lamborghini Aventador. However, to justify the price tag of this Centenario, it's important to note that the Aventador is skinned in both carbon fiber and aluminum. The Centenario is skinned in virtually all carbon fiber! Both share a similar carbon fiber tub chassis. Even the wheels of the Centenario has partial carbon fiber spokes!
I haven't driven the Centenario, but from Lamborghini test drivers and racers, I'm told it drives even better than the Lamborghini Aventador.
Please read my review of the Lamborghini Aventador here!
www.watchprosite.com
Over the years since I've written the review of the Lamborghini Aventador, I've had the pleasure of driving the Aventador and the Huracan many times and I've also experienced other fine vehicles considered as competitors to Lamborghini's product line. I consistently find the Lamborghinis to be the easiest to drive (both slow and fast), the most intuitive, and the most user friendly. In Silicon Valley, we'd say it has a great UX or user experience!
The car screams design from every angle. And there are a lot of them in this Cubist car. The Centenario's designs are crazy but classic at the same time. Hmm, watch and clock comparisons are going on in my mind...
The beautiful interior is a testament to the team of ladies at Sant'Agata who painstakingly assemble each piece of leather largely by hand. Aventador owners will notice the screen is larger. Unfortunately it's just a basic touch screen, and it's not even half the size of the one in the Tesla car! For Lamborghini, they should've done some weird screen like this...
This is a clock display using nixie tubes. Nixie tubes are the precursor to LED and other numerical displays. It's totally Cold-War era technology and can't be found today anymore. But it's appropriately awesome like the Lamborghini!
This stitching is painstakingly done by free-hand. As this kind of cross stitching cannot be done by machine. The spacing of each stitch needs to be done so precisely that even a deviation of half a millimeter would be noticeable to the human eye.
A long line of stitching, all done perfectly! Kind of like the thick and perfect anglage on a Kari Voutilainen watch and the MB&F Legacy watch!
Three watchmakers; Maximilian Busser, Kari Voutilainen, and Jean-Francois Mojon each take their core strengths and distill it into one of the most special and unusual timepieces ever created!
The engine is visible. I'm kind of expecting to see a Battle Axe swinging in there! It's got a massive 6.75 liter V12 engine in there producing over 700 horsepower! 0-100 km sprints are expected to be under 3 seconds!
This is the engine room of the HM3 Frog! The winding rotor is known as the "Battle Axe" and PuristSPro had a Limited Edition Choco Frog made just for our forum readers!
www.watchprosite.com
Look at those tail lights! Very nice! That rear diffuser is the deepest one I've ever seen! And that trio of afterburners jetpacks the Centenario into the opposite direction at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour!
And speaking of afterburners...
The MB&F Horological Machine Thunderbolt! Or as I like to call it, the Jetpack watch! The afterburners on this watch catapulted itself to win the Design and Concept Award at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, basically the Oscars of the watch world. I want to strap this one on so badly. And I want to strap into a Lamborghini too!
It is important to note that it is also the Miura's 50th Anniversary Celebrations. A collection of skittle colored Miuras were all over the place and I saw the group of them at Quail, Concorso Italiano, and at The Lamborghini Club dinner. Since my favorite Skittle flavor is green, I've decided to share with you a picture of one of the green Miuras. There were at least two Green Miuras present and boy does it look good!
Notice the back of the Lamborghini Miura. Doesn't it remind you of something?
Another timeless design. It's so hard to find things that are made in the 21st century that are going to look good decades from now. It seems that so many consumer products not only are made with planned obselence, or simply not built to a high quality to last longer than their warranty period. But in addition to technological obselence and quality deterioration the design itself is shortly obsolete. The MB&F HM5, like the Lamborghini will likely endure the test of time. And the Miura being 50 years old, still looks darned good!
The dial of this watch also looks like a car's instrument cluster.
This is how the Miura car looks like to my teary eyes. The design is so amazing for its time it actually makes my eyes water!
Watches and cars are definitely enjoyable mediums. And the world of Lamborghini and MB&F are definitely well enjoyed together. I thank the creative geniuses behind both of the brands for making these emotionally stirring vehicles that capture our hearts and captivate our minds.
I had the pleasure of meeting Tonino Lamborghini (son of Ferruccio Lamborghini) twice during my time at Pebble Beach. At Concorso Italiano he told the story of how his father founded Lamborghini after having a disagreement with Enzo Ferrari about clutches. Later that evening, at the Lamborghini Club dinner, he gave a heartfelt and personal speech to the group with a story of the past and the future family museum that will house all the incredible stories surrounding Lamborghini. I hope all PuristSPro readers will have the opportunity to see and experience a Lamborghini and I bet it will make your heart tick at a faster rate!
Please share your thoughts about the Lamborghini Centenario! Happy 100th Birthday to Ferruccio Lamborghini and Happy 50th Birthday to The Miura!
Disclaimers: Photos of autos are property of PuristSPro and Patrick_y, please do not use without written permission. Photos of timepieces credited to www.MBandF.com No payment nor favors were received by any entity.
The Lamborghini Centenario was seen by about 5000 guests at Quail. The name Centenario celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Lamborghini founder Ferruccio Lamborghini. Happy Birthday Ferruccio!
The sold out carbon fiber bodied supercar is mechanically identical to the Lamborghini Aventador. However, to justify the price tag of this Centenario, it's important to note that the Aventador is skinned in both carbon fiber and aluminum. The Centenario is skinned in virtually all carbon fiber! Both share a similar carbon fiber tub chassis. Even the wheels of the Centenario has partial carbon fiber spokes!
I haven't driven the Centenario, but from Lamborghini test drivers and racers, I'm told it drives even better than the Lamborghini Aventador.
Please read my review of the Lamborghini Aventador here!
www.watchprosite.com
Over the years since I've written the review of the Lamborghini Aventador, I've had the pleasure of driving the Aventador and the Huracan many times and I've also experienced other fine vehicles considered as competitors to Lamborghini's product line. I consistently find the Lamborghinis to be the easiest to drive (both slow and fast), the most intuitive, and the most user friendly. In Silicon Valley, we'd say it has a great UX or user experience!
The car screams design from every angle. And there are a lot of them in this Cubist car. The Centenario's designs are crazy but classic at the same time. Hmm, watch and clock comparisons are going on in my mind...
The beautiful interior is a testament to the team of ladies at Sant'Agata who painstakingly assemble each piece of leather largely by hand. Aventador owners will notice the screen is larger. Unfortunately it's just a basic touch screen, and it's not even half the size of the one in the Tesla car! For Lamborghini, they should've done some weird screen like this...
This is a clock display using nixie tubes. Nixie tubes are the precursor to LED and other numerical displays. It's totally Cold-War era technology and can't be found today anymore. But it's appropriately awesome like the Lamborghini!
This stitching is painstakingly done by free-hand. As this kind of cross stitching cannot be done by machine. The spacing of each stitch needs to be done so precisely that even a deviation of half a millimeter would be noticeable to the human eye.
A long line of stitching, all done perfectly! Kind of like the thick and perfect anglage on a Kari Voutilainen watch and the MB&F Legacy watch!
Three watchmakers; Maximilian Busser, Kari Voutilainen, and Jean-Francois Mojon each take their core strengths and distill it into one of the most special and unusual timepieces ever created!
The engine is visible. I'm kind of expecting to see a Battle Axe swinging in there! It's got a massive 6.75 liter V12 engine in there producing over 700 horsepower! 0-100 km sprints are expected to be under 3 seconds!
This is the engine room of the HM3 Frog! The winding rotor is known as the "Battle Axe" and PuristSPro had a Limited Edition Choco Frog made just for our forum readers!
www.watchprosite.com
Look at those tail lights! Very nice! That rear diffuser is the deepest one I've ever seen! And that trio of afterburners jetpacks the Centenario into the opposite direction at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour!
And speaking of afterburners...
The MB&F Horological Machine Thunderbolt! Or as I like to call it, the Jetpack watch! The afterburners on this watch catapulted itself to win the Design and Concept Award at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, basically the Oscars of the watch world. I want to strap this one on so badly. And I want to strap into a Lamborghini too!
It is important to note that it is also the Miura's 50th Anniversary Celebrations. A collection of skittle colored Miuras were all over the place and I saw the group of them at Quail, Concorso Italiano, and at The Lamborghini Club dinner. Since my favorite Skittle flavor is green, I've decided to share with you a picture of one of the green Miuras. There were at least two Green Miuras present and boy does it look good!
Notice the back of the Lamborghini Miura. Doesn't it remind you of something?
Another timeless design. It's so hard to find things that are made in the 21st century that are going to look good decades from now. It seems that so many consumer products not only are made with planned obselence, or simply not built to a high quality to last longer than their warranty period. But in addition to technological obselence and quality deterioration the design itself is shortly obsolete. The MB&F HM5, like the Lamborghini will likely endure the test of time. And the Miura being 50 years old, still looks darned good!
The dial of this watch also looks like a car's instrument cluster.
This is how the Miura car looks like to my teary eyes. The design is so amazing for its time it actually makes my eyes water!
Watches and cars are definitely enjoyable mediums. And the world of Lamborghini and MB&F are definitely well enjoyed together. I thank the creative geniuses behind both of the brands for making these emotionally stirring vehicles that capture our hearts and captivate our minds.
I had the pleasure of meeting Tonino Lamborghini (son of Ferruccio Lamborghini) twice during my time at Pebble Beach. At Concorso Italiano he told the story of how his father founded Lamborghini after having a disagreement with Enzo Ferrari about clutches. Later that evening, at the Lamborghini Club dinner, he gave a heartfelt and personal speech to the group with a story of the past and the future family museum that will house all the incredible stories surrounding Lamborghini. I hope all PuristSPro readers will have the opportunity to see and experience a Lamborghini and I bet it will make your heart tick at a faster rate!
Please share your thoughts about the Lamborghini Centenario! Happy 100th Birthday to Ferruccio Lamborghini and Happy 50th Birthday to The Miura!
Disclaimers: Photos of autos are property of PuristSPro and Patrick_y, please do not use without written permission. Photos of timepieces credited to www.MBandF.com No payment nor favors were received by any entity.
Hmm... My Waring Pro blender only has four spokes.
I bet those spokes will be hard to clean. You've got to clean between the carbon fiber and the silver metal. Then again, I'm probably one of the few people who would actually clean his own Lamborghini if I had one!
It should be easy to clean them with a good high pressure cleaner. I suppose they are resistant ;-)
Best wishes
Alkiro
Alkiro
Nice detail report on this automobile.
There were just too many people when I reached this stand...and it was late afternoon so I'm dead tired already, just ready to finish the tour, and get more food then leave 
Rgds
Raymond
Yup, I experienced that as well!
And in addition to exhaustion, I had the problem of just getting around to everything as I just kept running into people and old friends. 70% of the booths I didn't even get to see. And I only got to eat at one food station. The physical size has gotten bigger too. Still, one of the best events during the Car Week!
A nice....
and appropriately named and marketed supercar however I still prefer the dare I say - classicism - of the Aventador design relative of course to the Lamborghini heritage. The Murcielago and the Aventador are still by far my favorite Lambos despite the plethora of limited edition Reventons, Sesto Elementos, Egoistas, Centenarios etc. Those ones are to my eyes simply all about unnecessary excess. Thanks for posting! Cheers, Filip
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Are you a Lamborghini Lover? What are your favorite cars?
You started young!
I'm admittedly a convert. I was a Ferrari Fan before I became a Lamborghini Lover. Driving Ferraris was always exhilerating, but I found the car difficult to acclimate to. After driving a Lamborghini Aventador, I was quickly acclimated and confident of the car's actions. Since then, I've become a huge fan of Lamborghinis, and the Huracan has impressed me heavily as well.
Great pics of the Lamborghini Centenario!
I could only imagine how packed it must have been at this specific area.
Those are some unique rims. Not sure if I like them but they sure are a looker!
Thanks for these lives pics and report!
Those are some unique rims. Not sure if I like them but they sure are a looker!
Thanks for these lives pics and report!
Cheers,
Anthony
Anthony
You're welcome Anthony!
Yes, this was probably the busiest booth. The star of the show at Quail.