Updates
23rd April 2010
Exclusively for the Chinese market, only 10 examples of the Murciélago LP670-4 SuperVeloce China Limited Edition will be produced.
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2nd March 2010
Lamborghini have released photos of a ravishingly green Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera, the latest evolution of the popular Gallardo model. It will be presented at the ongoing Geneva Motor Show.
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14th September 2009
The dramatic Reventón Roadster will be presented at this year's Frankfurt Show. A strictly limited production ensures that this will remain a rarity.
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27th June 2009
Photos of the upcoming Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni have been uploaded.
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13th March 2009
The first photos of the Murciélago LP650-4 Roadster, of which only 50 will be produced, were released by Lamborghini.
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2nd March 2009
Lamborghini presents the Murciélago LP670-4 SuperVeloce, the most powerful Murciélago ever.
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8th December 2008
Several new photos uploaded, both cars and persons.
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20th November 2008
The Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder was presented at the Los Angeles Motor Show yesterday to replace the Gallardo Spyder.
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25th October 2008
Lamborghini announced "The Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo - the world’s fastest one-make series" today, a race series where the purpose built Gallardo LP560-4 Super Trofeo will be used. In addition to this new model, several new photos of the Gallardo LP560-4 and the Estoque were added. Enjoy!
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1st October 2008
The Lamborghini Estoque will be presented at the Paris Motor Show over the next few days. Being the first 4-seater Lamborghini since the LM 002, this car is destined to cause a great stir. Several engine options are mentioned, amongst them a TDI engine.
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19th September 2008
Lamborghini presented an interesting photo 3 days ago, showing the rear of the new model which is to be presented at this year's Paris Motor Show. Today, another photo of this model was released, showing the area around the front left wheel. A tyre size of 295/30 ZR 19 and a low bonnet indicates a sporty car (no wonder).
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4th August 2008
Added 3 photos of the Islero 400 GTS.
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11th June 2008
The Literature section has been extended with the 1968 range brochure, the first Countach LP400 brochure and a Diablo 6.0 brochure.
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26th March 2008
Several new photos of the Reventón were added.
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4th March 2008
Gallardo LP560-4, the new and updated Gallardo, will be launched at this year's Geneva Motor Show. With a revised design, upgraded engine and several updates, this will be a tough contender for the competition.
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11th September 2007
The new Reventón was presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show yesterday. Only 20 Reventón is to be produced, making it the rarest production Lamborghini.
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31st August 2007
After finally having obtained the 350 GTV brochure, a short presentation of it has been added to the Literature section.
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9th May 2007
Moved most of the Espada S1 images to Espada S2 after having been notified they were in fact showing an Espada S2. Added a new Espada S1 image as well.
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1st March 2007
At this year's Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini is to unveil the Gallardo Superleggera, a light-weight version of the Gallardo.
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11th February 2007
Uploaded some photos of the new Murciélago LP640 Roadster Versace.
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30th November 2006
Added the Gallardo Nera, the Murciélago LP640 Versace and the brand new Murciélago LP640 Roadster.
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29th August 2006
Did a minor change in the CSS to make the menu work in Internet Explorer 7. An error in IE 7 will make the menu look bad in some cases, though.
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6th July 2006
Added 35 images of the Murciélago LP640.
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28th April 2006
I added some code to show a pictoral celebration of Ferruccio Lamborghini's birthday every 28th April.
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17th March 2006
The page code was slightly modified and I added my own counter, since my new web hotel facilitates this. My new counter counts on every page visited, whereas the old counter would only count visitors to the front page. The new counter counts only once in a session, which times out after 10 minutes of browsing inactivity.
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22nd February 2006
The upgraded Murciélago, the LP640, will be presented at this year's Geneva Motor Show, and will continue Lamborghini's V12 legacy.
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6th January 2006
The new Miura Concept, which is to be presented at the Detroit Motor Show, is now to be found on timpelen.com.
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22nd December 2005
Some new future plans added to the Future section.
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17th October 2005
Updated some information about a few models after Paolo Stanzani told me some interesting facts.
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12th September 2005
The new Gallardo Spyder has been added to the ever growing list of Lamborghini cars.
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14th August 2005
Added 10 images of the Murciélago R-GT.
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20th July 2005
Information and photos about the new Gallardo SE are online: The cars > Production models > Current models > Gallardo > Gallardo SE.
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21st May 2005
Minor update to the Future section.
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23rd April 2005
A Lamborghini see-through kit was added to the Literature section.
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28th March 2005
The counter code was altered according to yesterday's code change.
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27th March 2005
The code was altered to become XHTML 1.1 Strict compliant. There is an issue with the counter on the home page which needs to be sorted out.
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20th February 2005
290 new images have been uploaded. An advanced CSS technique is used to make a pleasant image gallery for each car with multiple images. This technique is derived from my CSS Zen Garden submission "Revealed". Sadly, Microsoft Internet Explorer doesn't support this. I strongly recommend Opera for browsing.
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18th February 2005
The new Concept S can be seen on www.timpelen.com: The cars > Prototypes > The 2000s > Concept S.
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31st January 2005
I added photos of Stanzani and Greco.
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30th January 2005
A new section was added about Lamborghini literature, where I plan to display different sorts of Lamborghini literature and documents. You can find it under The heritage > Literature.
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14th December 2004
Updated information about upcoming models in the "future" section.
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6th November 2004
Valentino Balboni finally got his section on www.timpelen.com. See The heritage > Persons > Balboni. Also, images of Luc Donckerwolke, Sandro Munari and the Miura chassis of November 1965 have been added.
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20th October 2004
Changed a few images of cars and also the home page image, which now will show several different images. In addition, an image of Ferruccio Lamborghini himself has been added to the page about him. See The heritage > Persons > Lamborghini.
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11th October 2004
Added a link to latest update on the home page.
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10th October 2004
Minor changes to the source code for better handling.
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9th October 2004
The "future" section has been restructured and updated with new information about upcoming models.
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31st May 2004
I restructured the entire site once again. The information is now stored in a database. Added 9 prototypes and information about Luc Donckerwolke. All the images have been modified.
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25th March 2004
I added a version of the site for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer, available from the "About this site" section.
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24th March 2004
I rewrote some of the code for the site, making it look OK in Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, MSIE still does not support the CSS level 2 that I have implemented in the site.
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20th March 2004
The recently unveiled Murciélago Roadster has got it's place on timpelen.com.
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3rd February 2004
Uploaded new image of Lamborghini Faena along with some more information about it, thanks to Registro Pietro Frua. See link under Related links.
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23rd January 2004
Managed to retrieve most of the older update information.
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21st January 2004
I recreated the source code, removing unnecessary code and altering large parts of it.
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17th January 2004
I made some minor changes to the design.
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22nd December 2003
A section about the new Murciélago 40 was added.
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16th December 2003
A new version of the site is online. I stripped the code and removed around 70% of the code without removing any functionality. The new menu is made with CSS.
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30th September 2003
Information about the Murciélago R-GT added.
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18th May 2003
Two days ago, on timpelen.com's one year anniversary, my visitor counter passed 10000! Thank you to all of you who visit timpelen.com! I've altered the layout a bit and made the background image a random decision.
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30th April 2003
The brochure special was removed. Please notify me if you'll miss it.
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4th April 2003
The brochure special is now showing the Urraco P250 brochure, after having shown the 350 GT 2+1 brochure for some days. I will try to change the contents of the brochure special every second week or so.
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23rd March 2003
I added a new feature to timpelen.com: The brochure special. It is to be found under The cars.
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18th March 2003
I reconstructed the entire site. Once the front page is loaded, the entire site is loaded, except the images.
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10th March 2003
Following the recent launch of the Gallardo, all info on the Gallardo is now to be found under The cars > Production models > Mid-engined or Current models.
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13th January 2003
A section about the Murcielago Barchetta Concept Car was added. See The cars > Prototypes > Murcielago Barchetta.
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11th January 2003
I added photos of the Murcielago Roadster and the Gallardo engine. The final programme for the 40th anniversary celebration was entered.
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7th December 2002
Added the proposed program for the Lamborghini Day, Automobili Lamborghini's 40th anniversary celebration. See The heritage > Moments > The future > Lamborghini Day.
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30th November 2002
I created and published a guestbook, hoping that my visitors will send me some comments.
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2nd November 2002
I published an entirely new look of the site. The Flash- and frames-versions were abandoned.
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10th July 2002
I replaced the photo of the Espada Series 2.
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9th July 2002
New photos of the Marco Polo, Laraki Fulgura, Cizeta V16T and Bugatti 18/4 Veyron were added.
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5th July 2002
New photo of the Gallardo added.
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4th July 2002
New information about Automobili Lamborghini's 40th anniversary celebration - see The heritage > Moments > The future > Lamborghini Day. Also, a new image of the 350 GT was uploaded.
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29th June 2002
The home page was altered again.
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28th June 2002
The images of the 350 GT and the Islero S have been replaced. I added a short explanation of the domain name in the "About" section. The page layout has been altered and visitors will now have the possibility to choose between Flash and HTML on the home page.
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25th May 2002
I added some images of the L140.
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19th May 2002
I replaced the Espada S3 image.
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18th May 2002
An HTML-version of timpelen.com was published. A section about MCA Centenaire was added.
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17th May 2002
I've made an alternative "full screen" mode, enabling the visitors to see all of the content and still being able to navigate.
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17th May 2002
The Jarama images have been corrected. I also found out that the full screen effect didn't have the positive effect I wanted. So I cut it out. Some of my visitors experienced not being able to open the pages - sorry, my fault. I hope it's fixed. I also removed the "home" and "exit" links. Some of you don't like Flash. Well, I like it.
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16th May 2002
www.timpelen.com was published.