Lamborghini

2011-10-22T10:14:00.001-07:00

Fact 1:
Lamborghini is named after the founder of the company Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916-1993). Ferruccio Lamborghini founded the company in 1963 when he was 47 years old. The factory is located in a small Italian village called Sant'Agata Bolognese near Bologna.

Fact 2:

Ferruccio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer before he got interested in sports cars. His interest in sports cars made him buy many different high-performance cars including both Maseratis and Ferraris, but he was never really happy with any of them and therefore decided to built his own, perfect sports car,

Fact 3:
Lamborghini used to be an independent company, but today it is a subsidiary of the German company Audi AG. Audi AG became the owner of Lamborghini in 1998. Lamborghini went bankrupt in 1978 and was sold to Chrysler a long time before Audi AG became the sole owner of the company.

Fact 4:
The fastest Lamborghini is the Le Mans version of the Murcielago R-GT model. It has been reported to have a top speed of 370 km/h. The fastest street model from Lamborghini is the Murcielago LP640 with an estimated top speed of 340 km/h. Both of the models have a V12 engine with more than 6000 cc.

Fact 5:
Several of the newer Lamborghini models feature the familiar Lamborghini scissor doors that rotate up and forward on a hinge near the front of the door. The Countach, the Diablo and the Murcielago all have scissor doors, but the Gallardo does not. Both the Countach and the Diablo are no longer being produced, so the Murcielago is the only current model with scissor doors.

Fact 6:
No Lamborghini have ever been produced with less than a V8 engine. Most of the Lamborghini models throughout the history of the company have come with the legendary Lamborghini V12 engine, but the newest model, Gallardo, only have a V10 engine. No Lamborghini models with a V8 engine have been since production of the Silhouette stopped in 1989.

Fact 7:
The first Lamborghini was the 350GTV from 1963. It was extremely fast for its time with a top speed of 280 km/h. In 1964 a smaller version of the 350GTV appeared. The smaller version was called 350GT and had a top speed of 240 km/h. The Countach from 1974 was the first Lamborghini to go faster than 300 km/h.

Fact 8:
In 1975 did Walter Wolf, a rich Canadian businessman and F1 racing team owner, persuade Lamborghini to produce three super powered Countach models. The Wolf Countach had the same engine as the orginal Countach prototype and were able to reach a top speed of 315 km/h.

My First Blog

2011-10-21T16:24:00.000-07:00

Rock vs. Pop/Hip Pop

Of course there are people with many different tastes in music ranging from classical to opera and many more. But I want to talk about two of the biggest genres today in the 21st century: rock and pop/hip pop. Today, many of people from age 9-16 average listen to pop and hip pop. It can be argued that pop and hip pop are the most listened to genre of this generation, but many people can disagree with that and say millions of people listen to rock, metal, heavy metal, etc. I, being one of those people, agree with that statement. Some popular pop/ hip pop artists are Nicki Minaj, who is famous for singing "Super Bass" and Bruno Mars, who is known for singing, "I wanna be a billionaire" with Travie McCoy and "Grenade." These artists have some talent, but don't have as much skill at song writing as rock artists such as Metallica, Greenday, and Judas Priest. These artists have to write lyrics, write notes and put it all together and see if it fits. In my opinion, rock is requires more skill to write, but has less listeners. Rock will never die, but it did have its time, just like any other type of music. Its time was in the 1970s to 1990s when famous bands like Megadeth, Metallica, Judas Priest, Kiss, and ACDC all formed. These bands are all legends, but that time period wasn't the only time for that kind of music. Rock is dying down now in 2011, but there are still many famous bands forming now that are very talented and do get a lot of attention, but not as much as they deserve. Some of these bands are Disturbed, Greenday, or Three Days Grace.

This was my first blog and I hope I didn't do that bad on it.