Lamborghini Sales Booming

Italian supercar manufacturer Lamborghini is enjoying a spectacular year, with January-June sales up 45% on last year. Part of the reason for this is that there are simply more Lamborghinis to buy. The Gallardo Spyder convertible (pictured below) was introduced a few months ago, and there's a 12-month waiting list for the Murciélago LP640 which made its debut at this year's Geneva Show.

In addition, there are many more places to buy Lamborghinis from. At the beginning of this year there were 65 Lamborghini dealers in the world. Now there are 88, and by the end of 2006 there will be 100. New dealerships have opened in India and Russia, extending the geoegraphical spread.

"The increased awareness of our brand through a growing dealer network makes the Lamborghini image more visible to our customers, who are evermore expectant, and who today enjoy the possibility of personally experiencing our new models with relative logistical ease," says Lamborghini's President and CEO Stephan Winkelmann.

The big growth area for Lamborghini is the US, where first-half sales are up 68% on 2005. Deliveries in the UK have improved by 41.4%, above the company's European growth average of 29.3%.

Source: http://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/2006/august/09/11005.asp