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" Carbon fiber isn&amp;#039;t just a fancy accessory on today&amp;#039;s high-end sports cars\u2013it&amp;#039;s the material of the future that&amp;#039;s making cars lighter and stronger than ever. Lamborghini recently opened up a new carbon fiber R&amp;amp;amp;D facility in Seattle, and the tech it&amp;#039;s developing there is potentially game-changing. Lamborghini&amp;#039;s R&amp;amp;amp;D chief Maruzio Reggiani confirmed that the company is developing carbon fiber connecting rods to be used in its next-generation V12, in an interview with Automotive News. These new-age connecting rods are in development at Lamborghini&amp;#039;s new Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory, which opened in Seattle last month. The goal for Lamborghini is to use these carbon fiber connecting rods in the next-generation Aventador, which will arrive in 2020 or 2021. &amp;quot;I [hope] that in one, one-and-a-half years, we are able to finish development and say this can be a part that can be in the future in the engine,&amp;quot; said Reggiani in an interview with Automotive News. &amp;quot;I hope that we are able to have something in production soon.&amp;quot; Lamborghini&amp;#039;s carbon fiber connecting rods are said to be 40- to 50-percent lighter than regular steel units, and this lightness will bring a significant power increase. They&amp;#039;re also made of a forged composite, which consists of a mix of carbon fiber and resin that&amp;#039;s heated and pressurized in a steel mold. It only takes three minutes to make a carbon fiber connecting rod with this process, which is much quicker than it than the hours it would take using conventional methods.  If Lamborghini were to succeed in putting these connecting rods into production, it would undoubtedly be a huge step forward for carbon fiber technology. We&amp;#039;ve seen extensive usage of carbon in a car&amp;#039;s construction, but not nearly as much in the engine bay, so that&amp;#039;s why this possibility is particularly exciting. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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