It’s that time, the predecessor to the Lamborghini Murcielago is finally here…and it’s called the Aventador.  The $370,000 supercar is already reportedly sold out, and for good reason.  The Aventador is 9% more powerful, has 20% better fuel efficiency and is 5% lighter.

As amazing as the car looks on the exterior, it’s really what’s inside that excites us.  Lamborghini used a carbon fiber reinforced polymer monocoque:

The actual monocoque itself only weighs 324.4 pounds, definitely playing a large role in the weight reduction.

That’s cool and all, but this is the picture that really got to us:

It looks like the emblems for the car are made using Forged Composite which we’ve written about in the past.  A picture on the final car makes it hard to tell whether or not the forged composite version made it into production, so if anybody could verify that please comment.

Thanks to Ben Schaffer’s blog, JONSIBAL and Autoblog for all of the info in this post.