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We're quickly learning more and more about Lamborghini's Murciélago successor as the days go by. Take the suspension for example. Today, we learned that Lamborghini's V-12 powered, carbon chassis will ride on a pushrod suspension setup, just like formula cars.

All four corners will get unequal length upper and lower control arms and transversely mounted coil-over dampers. The benefits of such a system include the separation of drive and cornering loads from the damper itself, and the ability to finely tune the motion ratios from the rocker itself. These advantages are generally not considered big enough to pursue on a street applications, especially when you factor cost and packaging requirements, but Lamborghini thought otherwise in order to finely control the LP700-4's 255/35-19's up front and 335/30-20 rear tires.

As is available on current Lambo models, the LP700-4 will be offered with a nose lift function that will hydraulically raise the nose of the car by 40 millimeters to cover steep driveways and speed bumps. Carbon ceramic composite brakes will haul this thing down, with 400 millimeter rotors and six-piston calipers up front and 380 millimeter rotors and four-piston calipers out back.

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