2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera LP 570 – 4: Remember To Breathe

2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera LP 570 4

Theoretically, making supercars is fairly simple. Take a big engine, plonk it in a stiff chassis, drape it with featherweight clothes designed by a 10-year old, give it a name that even sounds fast and then stick an obscene price tag. Simple. But what happens when you have been at the formula for, say, 20 odd years?

Lamborghini rarely needs an introduction to this formula. Taking the Gallardo to the gym and resulted in the Superleggera LP 560-4. That car weighed about a ton and had 560 odd horses pushing the car to 100 kph in less than 4 seconds, 3.8 to be precise. So you would imagine, having done the deed, Lamborghini would have not much to offer at the Geneva Motor Show. Well, think again.

The mad bulls have dragged the Gallardo to the gym again and have made it leaner, meaner and faster. Lamborghini’s engineers have managed to shave off 238 pounds off the original Gallardo (38 more than the Superleggera LP 560-4) to make the 2011 Superleggera LP 570 – 4, weighing in at 2954 pounds! For those who never hazarded a guess, Superleggera in Italian means super light and 570 means 10 ponies more than the LP 560 have been squeezed out of the 5.2 litre DOHC V-10 motor. A gut-wrenching 398 torques will need the four-wheel drive system of the car. Drive train is handled either by a 6-speed auto clutch manual or a 6-speed manual. The result: 0- 100 kph in 3.5 seconds and total track domination.

Stopping duties are provided by 14.3 -inch steel discs hiding under the forged aluminium wheels draped with Pirelli P-Zero Corsa rubbers made exclusively for the Superleggera. Stability control can be adjusted to mad, madder and mental. Other stopping duties are thanks to the price tag. The 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera will go on-sale in the U.S. in June 2010 starting at $237,600 and that’s without the race brouhaha.

The race shebang includes 15-inch carbon-ceramic front rotors clamped by six-piston callipers and 14-inch carbon-ceramic rear rotors with four-piston callipers are optional. If total domination on the track is your goal, four-point harnesses, a fire extinguisher, and a steel roll cage are all optional, as is a larger rear wing is your thing. Now all the extras will make the price tag swell but if you can afford the base model, you are well set for anything obscene.

Oh and we love lime green Lambos !!

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