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2010 Paris Auto Show: Lamborghini Forged Composite

While announcing their formalized partnership at the 2010 Paris Auto Show these days, Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. and Callaway Golf Company have also debuted a groundbreaking new material called Forged Composite.

Encompassing more than 500,000 intertwined turbostratic fibers per square inch, this revolutionary material features an incredibly high threshold. Forged Composite is one-third the density of titanium, yet features a greater load carrying capacity per unit mass in bending.

The implementation of a new, proprietary isothermal forging process enables Callaway and Lamborghini engineers to incorporate Forged Composite into their designs with a level of precision that was previously unachievable.

Coming as the lightest, strongest, most precise material ever used by either Lamborghini or Callaway, Forged Composite is also featured in the Sesto Elemento (Sixth Element) technology demonstrator.

“The introduction of the Forged Composite technology allowed Lamborghini to realize the monocoque and the suspension arms of the Sesto Elemento with groundbreaking quality and costs levels,” said Maurizio Reggiani, Director Research and Development of Automobili Lamborghini. “Our next challenge is to make this technology a standard for low volume productions.”

Callaway will introduce a line of premium golf equipment featuring this groundbreaking material in the coming weeks and throughout 2011.

“Forged Composite provides us with the ability to engineer performance enhancements like never before, and we’ve only just begun to tap the potential of this material,” added Alan Hocknell, Sr. Vice President, Research and Development, Callaway Golf. “We’re looking forward to collaborating on future applications that push our designs beyond any preconceptions.”

Whether the Sesto Elemento concept will make it into production or not is yet unknown, but Lamborghini says the technology featured on it will be found on the company’s future cars.

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