2009 Lamborghini LP570-4Just the Facts:
- Lamborghini sales were down 38 percent in 2009.
- The Italian automaker posted a net loss last year of $48 million.
- Lamborghini will announce at least one new product a year.
SANT'AGATA BOLOGNESE, Italy — The global economic downturn hit luxury-car makers especially hard in 2009 — and no company more than Volkswagen's Automobili Lamborghini unit, which said worldwide vehicle deliveries plummeted 38 percent, triggering a 41 percent decline in revenue.
Unit sales dropped from a record 2,430 cars in 2008 to 1,515 in 2009. Revenues fell from $654 million in 2008 to $384 million in 2009. The company posted a net loss last year of $48 million, compared with a record pretax profit of $79 million the previous year.
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