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Google Maps has been adding an ever-increasing amount of Street View imagery to its service allowing you to actually see the streets you’ll be driving, biking and walking on when you’re going somewhere. I think most of us probably use Street View imagery more to see our own houses or to see if we were caught on the Street View cameras more than anything else. One of the cool things that Google has been doing is allowing some businesses to offer interior views to prospective customers.

Lamborghini has announced that it has teamed up with Google Maps to offer an exclusive interior view of its museum located in Sant’Agata Bolognese. You may not ever get to travel to Italy and see the museum firsthand, but you can explore both floors and all 1500 square meters virtually from your smartphone, tablet, or web browser.

Inside the museum, Lamborghini has all sorts of famous cars from its street-legal car line, as well as prototypes, limited editions, and racing cars. One of the coolest features is that you can actually check out the interior of some extremely limited edition Lambo models including the Reventon, Estoque, and Sesto Elemento.

Click this link to check out the full 360-degree view.

A Lamborghini Aventador will cost you a whole lot of paper money, but this one just costs paper. And cardboard. It looks just as awesome. You just can’t drive it.

This 8-foot-long Lamborghini Aventador A-E2 police interceptor is all paper. It was made by designer Taras Lesko for a cost of about $1000 and weighs about 25lbs – which means he can carry and park it just about anywhere. Taras is no stranger to paper projects, having built lots of other cars, Gundams, wall art, and 3D busts before.

He was dared by his wife to take on this ambitious project and it is his biggest and heaviest papercraft model yet. Also the most expensive. But well worth it. It looks amazing.

If you’d like to build your own papercraft Lambo, you can download the templates for smaller versions of the car over on Lesko’s website.

You gotta love videogame marketing. First we got, pre-orders, then DLC, then exclusive DLC based on where your pre-order. Now they’re using pre-orders as viral advertisements. If you thought the $190,000 (USD) pre-order bundle for Grid 2 – which included a street legal race car – was ridiculous, get ready to hit your computer with a penetrator bat.

The upcoming balls-to-the-wall insanity simulator that is Saints Row IV has a pre-order bundle exclusive to the UK store Game. It’s called the Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition, and it costs $1,000,000. That number becomes a tad sillier considering only people in England and Wales can buy it. They should’ve just priced it an even £645,000. So what does that obscene amount of money get you? Let’s hit the image above with the Inflator Gun:

A Lamborghini Gallardo? Sweet! A trip to space? Whaaat! Plastic surgery? Yeaiiee- wait what? That bit makes me think that this bundle is either a joke or, well, a joke. On the pre-order page, it says that the person who buys this bundle has to accept that the “content of the ‘Super Dangerous Wad Wad Edition’ must be taken as stated and cannot be deferred.” The buyer’s going to get a plastic surgery whether he likes it or not. And after he’s done getting a new nose, he’ll still have to pay $10 to get the game’s DLC because the Season Pass isn’t included in the bundle. That’s how the 3rd Street Saints do.

[via Game via Joystiq]

Lamborghini has unveiled an update to its somewhat aged Gallardo model, the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Squadro Corse. The model won’t be making its public debut until later this year, but a full roster of its specifications and what enthusiasts can expect has been revealed, among them being a V10 engine and lighter weight than […]

The 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed was jam-packed with all sorts of racing events, including the infamous hill climb that saw two cars crash. However, those weren’t the only accidents to happen over the week. Lamborghini’s latest concept, called the Parcour, was demoed on the track and actually ended up crashing, damaging the rear end of the car.

The Parcour is an off-road vehicle of sorts that sports the supercar styling you see on many exotic cars, combined with larger wheels and higher road clearance that you see on SUVs. The car looks a little weird at first, but it seems to work for the most part, except for when the car loses control and slams into some hay bales, causing damage to a multi-million dollar prototype.

The Parcour seen in the video below is just one of the two models that have been built, and while the company is downplaying the severity of the damage (saying that it would just need minor repairs and would be back on the road in no time), the car needed to be put on flatbed truck and towed away.

The Parcour was originally unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show earlier this year, and it sports a 550-horsepower, mid-mounted V10 engine that can get the car off-roading pretty easily. The tires don’t look to be anything off-road worthy, but it probably doesn’t take long to switch the wheels and tires out for something a bit more rigid and rugged.

Of course, the crowd’s reaction is pretty priceless. You hear them cringing knowing that an expensive prototype is about to run right into a stack of hay bales, but then they start clapping immediately, either for a genuine sigh of relief that the crash wasn’t worse, or a sarcastic applause of “good job, driver!”.

Lamborghini Parcour off-road concept demoed (and crashed) is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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