You’d be forgiven for picturing the worst when thinking of Lamborghini and carbon fibre, but the good folk of Sant’Agata have been pretty pioneering with the black stuff over the years. Then did awful things to Uruses with it. The Aventador was carbon tubbed, don’t forget, and Lamborghini actually patented and used Forged Composites (teeny tiny bits of carbon soaked in resin) as far back as 2008.  

For the 1,015hp LB744, Lamborghini says it has employed carbon fibre in a unique way. With inspiration from the world of aviation, the new car will be underpinned by something called a ‘monofuselage’, a monocoque entirely created from multi-technology carbon fibre. Apparently it’s going to be lighter and more torsionally rigid than the Aventador chassis, to the benefit of driving dynamics. Which is quite some promise, given how spectacular the later SV and SVJs were. With, let’s not forget, around 250hp less.  

Specifically, the monofuselage is said to be 10 per cent lighter than the Aventador’s chassis, with torsional stiffness up 25 per cent to 40,000Nm per degree, ‘guaranteeing best-in-class dynamic capabilities’. The old aluminium front subframe has gone, too, replaced by a carbon item – Lamborghini says this new model is the first super sports car to be fitted with one – which further benefits to weight and rigidity. A CFRP (carbon fibre reinforced plastic) rocker ring ‘encloses and connects the Forged Composite elements’.

Even where aluminium is used (at the back of the car), there’s a focus on less weight and more stiffness. Plain old autoclave, prepreg carbon is going to be employed for the roof; Lamborghini has decades of experience there, of course, but just as importantly the more traditional method ‘gives the customer maximum versatility in roof customisation’. So it’ll still be an old-school Lambo in some regards. 

So significant is the chassis overhaul, in fact, that Lamborghini believes the LB744 represent ‘year zero’ for a new era of carbon in cars – a whole reset. No doubt other supercar manufacturers would have something to say about that, but then it wouldn’t be a new Lamborghini without some swagger.

There’s even a new acronym for the fresh start: AIM, or Automation, Integration, Modularity. The details of which involve lots of complex phrases like ‘preheated polymers’, ‘compression moulding’ and ‘discipline of composites’; stick with it, though, and the interesting stuff comes under Modularity, where Lamborghini talks of more flexible technology ‘to respond to all the product requirements and characteristics’. Which sounds like a lot of the LB744’s clever construction stuff will be used for plenty of future Lamborghinis, presumably including the Huracan’s plug-in replacement. Exciting times ahead, indeed.