Gallardo Superleggera
As the expected delivery date nears for the lighter, more powerful Ferrari Challenge Stradale, Lamborghini loyalists are ready for some good news in the form of the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. Like the prancing-horse crowd, the bucking-bull boys have corralled a few more horsepower and shed some unnecessary weight to create this special edition.
Starting with the already exhilarating Gallardo coupe, Lamborghini chucks the rear diffuser, the underbody tray, the rearview-mirror housings, the interior door panels, the central tunnel, and the engine cover and replaces them all with carbon-fiber copies of the old panels for a reduction of 154 pounds, bringing the weight down into the 3370-pound neighborhood.
Then, compounding this weight-loss program, the intake and exhaust systems are retuned, and the ECU is reprogrammed to stir up 10 more horsepower, for a total of 523. Lamborghini claims these upgrades will spit a Superleggera to sixty in 3.8 seconds, 0.3 second quicker than the last Gallardo coupe we tested.
Lamborghini’s paddle-shifted e-gear six-speed transmission comes standard in the Superleggera. Get in line now. This special-edition Lambo will be available in March 2007 and will certainly cost a significant chunk more than the Gallardo’s already steep $175,000 base price.
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