04-17-2012, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by UNKNOWN_370
Hahahaaa... like the Lamborghini Reventón. Reventón means blowout. So if you buy one will your tires spontaneously combust every trip? 
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Lamborghini names their car after fighting-bulls. It is their tradition, and that's why their company logo is a fighting-bull.
Here is the history of Reventón I copied from Wikipedia:
" The Reventón is named for a fighting bull, in line with Lamborghini tradition. The bull, raised by the Don Heriberto Rodríguez family, was best known for killing famed Mexican bullfighter Félix Guzmán in 1943.[9][10] Reventón means "explosion" or "burst" in Spanish, when used as a noun.[11][12] In the vernacular, it is also used to define a very large party or a night in town. In automotive terms, it means "blowout, flat tire" when used as a noun.[13] When it was used as the name of a bull, however, it was intended to be interpreted as an adjective, a quality or property of that bull in particular. In this last sense, Reventón means "he who seems to be about to burst" "
Since Reventón means "flat tire" in automotive terms, we can call it Lamborghini Flat-Tire.
Last edited by alcheng; 04-17-2012 at 02:24 AM.
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