If you were to judge by the name alone, Lamborghini Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae, you’d think this is it; this will be the last Aventador we see. Ultimate, being the Italian word for “ultimate” or “final,” as in “this is the ultimate lap of the race.” You’d be right because after this, nada! The Lamborghini Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae represents the final production run of the car’s now-iconic V12 internal combustion engine.

The Final Countdown

“The Aventador LP 780-4 denotes the final, purest, timeless naturally-aspirated production V12 Lamborghini . . . the definitive Aventador concluding an extraordinary era. It is the last of its kind.” Or so says Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini. If you wade through all the gloss and dross and corporate-speak hyperbole, the message is clear: This is not only the last Aventador; this is probably (could be) the last Lambo V12 ever. The press kit is peppered with phrases like, “a celebration of the iconic V12 super sports car and combustion engine in a final production model” and “a perfect finale.”
Lambo, like anyone else who can read a graph, knows that the writing is on the wall. These ICE cars are on the way out. If they, or any other carmaker, digs in their heals and fights, they will be as useful and saleable as a Model T and twice as obsolete. They didn’t come out and explicitly say it. There could b...