UK-based Prindiville Prestige is joining the revival of the traditional art of exclusive coachbuilding and complementing it with modern materials and technologies and to demonstrate its skills its has handcrafted the 'Murciélago by Prindiville'.

Towcester, UK-based Prindiville Prestige is joining the revival of the traditional art of exclusive coachbuilding and complementing it with modern materials and technologies, allowing clients to create a car that is unique. And to demonstrate its talents in three-dimensional form, Prindiville Prestige has painstakingly handcrafted the ‘Murciélago by Prindiville’.

Although retaining the central core of the donor Lamborghini, in terms of its bodywork ‘Murciélago by Prindiville’ shares only the front compartment lid; all the other panels, including the roof, have been replaced and restyled. There’s a bolder, more aggressive front valance, eye-catching sills, a more dynamic rear valance through which exits a specially designed titanium sports exhaust system, ‘handle-less’ doors with remote electric opening, and a restyled engine bay cover with transparent cooling louvers. All of the body panels are in exquisitely finished carbonfibre.

Inside the Murciélago features a £10,000 (GBP) ‘jewellery pack’ with a bespoke interior, enhanced by the use of rich leather and precision-milled aluminium accents. There are also ‘little touches’ that reveal the depth of the company’s attention to detail – precision engineered aluminium air vents, for instance.

‘The standard plastic air vents aren’t worthy of the rest of the interior,’ explains company founder, Alex Prindiville, ‘so although it was a complex and therefore costly procedure, we decided to manufacture replacements from aluminium. On their own these vents represent a significant proportion of the £10,000 cost of our interior ‘jewellery pack’, but it’s all part of the price of doing the job properly.’

Clients can specify whatever on-board entertainment and communications systems they desire. An extra that they may consider is the door mirror camera system fitted to the ‘Murciélago by Prindiville.’ Installed in each of the door mirrors, miniature cameras feed images to a monitor in the cabin, helping owners to protect the sills and alloy wheels of the car when parking next to high kerbs; a rear valance-mounted camera is also part of the system.

At the very high end of the car market, exclusivity is crucial. ‘And that’s where we come in,’ explains Alex Prindiville. ‘A client can either commission us to generate and execute an idea, or they can engage us in a consultation process where we bring their dream to life. ‘Whichever route our clients choose, our skilled engineers and craftsmen then realise the project to the very highest standards. And because every client has different ideas, what we produce for them is truly unique.’

Following an initial presentation of the ‘Murciélago by Prindiville’ at the Abu Dhabi motor show, several orders have already been taken. The car will also appear at the Top Marques Motor Show in Monte Carlo in April. And also on the drawing board for 2009 is a Ferrari F430 with gullwing doors and rear-hinged complete tail section, akin to that of the fabled F40, as well as a fresh interpretation of the BMW X6.