Inside Lamborghini’s State-of-the-Art Factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese

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You don’t understand a car manufacturer until you visit their factory, and that’s especially true for Lamborghini. History, television, and other brands would have you believe that this is some small-time tractor manufacturer in Sant’Agata Bolognese who managed to squeeze a V12 engine into some scaffolding and add wheels to it. However, in reality, this is one of the most impressive factories we’ve ever visited.

They may just have a compromised carbon fiber installation and complex automation, but what inspired us most on our visit to the Lamborghini factory is the way they balance classic with edge-of-point. Array Nonna is still sitting there with the seeding device to cut the leather seats, and has been for over 30 years, while in the other corner of the factory, a master engine builder who treats his paints as if they were Kind of a life or death scenario adds the 6. 5 liter v12 cylinders. to his new $987,000 Aud Lamborghini Revuelto.

Their flagship model might be expensive (and unobtainable) for most, but when you see what goes into making the new Revuelto, and the recently unveiled Temerario, which is yet to be priced in Australia, it’s truly impressive and you begin to justify the cost. Still, you can make your mind up for yourself once you’ve seen everything that we experienced in the Lamborghini Factory. Let’s take a look!

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If you ask Lamborghini, his story in the progression of carbon fiber began in 1983, when Boeing Mavens reached the factory to create the first branch of the compounds in Sant’Agata Bolognese. However, revisionist history tells us that a guy called Horacio Pagani tried to launch this procedure much earlier, but his request refused through the wonderful bosses of Lamborghini because he charges too much. He never gave the keys to a autoclave until it is time to create the devil.

Pagani would create the carbon fiber Lamborghini Countach Evoluzione in 1983 without an autoclave, finding a way to remove the fabrics to produce a lightweight finished product. This would be used to create the Evoluzione, but also cars like the 25th Anniversary Countach. and the Diablo, which marked the first production use of an autoclave and carbon fiber for Lamborghini.

The maximum vital step in the production of carbon fiber for Lamborghini began in 2007 when they collaborated with the University of Washington (UW) to expand the RTM generation outside the autoclave doors.

This process is complex, and you’d need a qualified engineer to explain it in detail, but it uses vacuum, pressure, and heat by means other than an autoclave and manual lamination to create carbon fibre that is without voids. This is a typical failure point, but it also allows the use of carbon fibre moulds, which is a game-changer for manufacturing. Lamborghini first used these moulds to create the Aventador monocoque, and now they’ve repurposed them for the Revuelto and Temerario.

Lamborghini can remain a leader in carbon fibre because few brands can match their manufacturing capability due to this patented RTM-Lambo technology. It’s impressive to witness how Lamborghini is staying ahead of the curve, and they probably need to be considering their shaky start with Pagani.

The logo uses this on its vehicles, including but not limited to the main structural parts, such as the Revuelto monocoque, but also functional parts such as the ALA (active aerodynamic system) and the aesthetic elements of the interior and exterior. Today, due to hybrid technology, this becomes even more important, as cutting the weight of the vehicle is a necessity.

Lamborghini gave us almost unlimited access to their production line as a component of this tour, and our phones were locked in a safe, witnesses to the entire raw carbon fiber procedure in a finished vehicle.

This production of sant’agata bolognesse continues to grow and now extends over a plot of land of more than 160,000 m2.

Production of the Urus SUV takes up a large amount of this space, but we began our two-day tour in the main building housing the assembly line for the new Revuelto and Temerario. This is best described as the place where the cars are screwed together (assembled), and it’s where the monocoque is delivered by AGVs (Automatic Guided Vehicles) after it’s finished being made at Produzione Compositi.

The first step of the procedure is to choose the correct components, and this becomes less difficult through a scan tool and flashing lighting devices that accurately indicate where to reach, what component to remove and where to place it in the corresponding cut. The car. These are procedures such as those that one would not immediately assume that they are decreasing in the factories, but demonstrates that even in the manufacture of low volume, it is important to follow each and every steps of the procedure to guarantee the power.

Once the intelligent parts have been selected, it is time to place the cylinder heads, the distribution chain and the 6. 5 -liter V12 engine hood of the scrambled.

If you realize how to use a torque wrench, think again. This specific tool is ultra-responsive, which is smart news for scrambled buyers, but not smart news for non-professionals who almost stopped the entire line of meetings due to too many mistakes. Still, it’s somewhat satisfying to see an engine come together (even if it’s a dummy) and every step of the build procedure makes you wonder how Lamborghini makes cash from those cars because they’re so involved.

Once the portions were placed on the motor, we walked in line and watched workers meticulously load the electric motor, battery, cable beam, car doors, seats, dashboard, and interior portions into the car before The wings, bumpers and exhaust were connected.

Then, it’s time to get acquainted with a tool that we knew how to use because the rear fender and taillights had to be attached to a reveal.

With a hammer screwdriver in hand, we have painstakingly added the screw to the magnetic tip and controlled to screw the rear fin into the car before getting it into position to access the bolts for the rear clearance. Bolt in the engine compartment of the car would have been a very embarrassing moment.

Finally, our excursion ended at the saddle, where all the leather and upholstery is added to the car. Here (above) you can see us examining leather for defects before it is approved and sent to the next step in the procedure where it is cut, stretched and shaped by hand into the internal components. This is leather in bag form and treated with the amount of care you would expect.

They’re actually exhausting paints (trust us), and we couldn’t wait for Lamborghini’s wheel to vent some steam after a hard morning on the tools. The logo was enough to give us the keys to some new and old products, including:

Without the full factory tour, we would never have learned the time, effort and experience that went into designing those vehicles. You can drive the cars and see the most of them, but you never, really, perceive a logo until you stop at your factory and meet the other people putting those dream cars together. It’s vital not to forget where those cars come from, the generation behind them and, above all, the passion. Everyone who works in the Lamborghini factory lives, breathes and sweats for the logo. It’s not just passion, it’s in their blood.

We have full reviews of each of these cars coming soon, so stay tuned, but for now, check out the Lamborghini Museum below, and plan a trip to Sant’Agata Bolognese.

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