MT & More First Drives: 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera
Mar 25, 2010 | 02:34 PM
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Automobile Mag: First Drive: 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera LP570-4REVIEWS
"Duck your head, limbo in, probe the footwell for legroom, lower yourself carefully into the Sparco tub, stretch out, breathe out, and relax if you can. No, the Gallardo cockpit is not made for tall fatsos whose Gold's Gym membership expired in 1972. Which is a shame, because the Superleggera epitomizes luxury in a modern, laidback fashion - super, yes; leggera, less so. Almost the entire passenger cell is lined with black Alcantara, which looks and feels like suede. To reduce weight, the door panels, the transmission tunnel cover, and the seat buckets are made of shiny carbon fiber. Other nice touches include bespoke instrument faces, body-color accents like contrasting stitching and piping, aluminum pedals, and a meaty steering wheel with an ever-so-slightly squared-off bottom.
Painted orange metallic, our fully loaded test car was charmingly over the top, what with orange weaving in the seat faces and orange brake calipers. To shed the 154 pounds required to bring the power-to-weight ratio down to 5.2 lb/hp, the engineers switched the rear side windows and backlight to distortion-prone polycarbonate. The high-gloss engine compartment cover, rear diffuser, front splitter, full-length undertray, and the extra-wide rocker panels are baked from carbon fiber. Not exactly essential - but nonetheless available at extra cost - are such attention grabbers as the LED engine bay, cabin and puddle lighting packs, and the stacked, nonadjustable, Countach-style tail spoiler. All in all, the more radical material mix helps to push down the curb weight to 2955 pounds, which isn't bad at all for a fully loaded, V-10-engined, four-wheel-drive supercoupe.
The tight-fitting Superleggera makes for an extremely intense driving experience. The one-size-fits-few seats are suction-cup fixtures that a dominatrix would be proud of. The instant throttle response launches you forward like an ejector. The ultra-quick steering feels like a high-voltage handshake. The merciless brakes threaten to inflict reverse whiplash injury. The suspension holds the road like an unsprung magnetic field. Dressed to impress with go-faster stripework and plenty of drag-cutting add-ons, the Superleggera marks the transition from boulevard racer to hardcore supercar that can't wait to be unleashed. This Lamborghini redefines the demarcation line between pain and pleasure, punishment and reward. Its helm dismisses you with chimney-sweeper palms, its exhaust system temporarily impairs your hearing, its chassis is liable to blur your field of vision, and its transmission combs your hair backwards as it changes gear at 8500 rpm sharp. The term cruise missile comes to mind as phenomenal grip and insane traction make the mighty orange wedge stick to its flight path as if inertia, mass, and g-force were totally negligible dynamic commodities."
Full review -->>
http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews...0_4/index.html
Automobile Mag: First Drive: 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera LP570-4REVIEWS
"Duck your head, limbo in, probe the footwell for legroom, lower yourself carefully into the Sparco tub, stretch out, breathe out, and relax if you can. No, the Gallardo cockpit is not made for tall fatsos whose Gold's Gym membership expired in 1972. Which is a shame, because the Superleggera epitomizes luxury in a modern, laidback fashion - super, yes; leggera, less so. Almost the entire passenger cell is lined with black Alcantara, which looks and feels like suede. To reduce weight, the door panels, the transmission tunnel cover, and the seat buckets are made of shiny carbon fiber. Other nice touches include bespoke instrument faces, body-color accents like contrasting stitching and piping, aluminum pedals, and a meaty steering wheel with an ever-so-slightly squared-off bottom.
Painted orange metallic, our fully loaded test car was charmingly over the top, what with orange weaving in the seat faces and orange brake calipers. To shed the 154 pounds required to bring the power-to-weight ratio down to 5.2 lb/hp, the engineers switched the rear side windows and backlight to distortion-prone polycarbonate. The high-gloss engine compartment cover, rear diffuser, front splitter, full-length undertray, and the extra-wide rocker panels are baked from carbon fiber. Not exactly essential - but nonetheless available at extra cost - are such attention grabbers as the LED engine bay, cabin and puddle lighting packs, and the stacked, nonadjustable, Countach-style tail spoiler. All in all, the more radical material mix helps to push down the curb weight to 2955 pounds, which isn't bad at all for a fully loaded, V-10-engined, four-wheel-drive supercoupe.
The tight-fitting Superleggera makes for an extremely intense driving experience. The one-size-fits-few seats are suction-cup fixtures that a dominatrix would be proud of. The instant throttle response launches you forward like an ejector. The ultra-quick steering feels like a high-voltage handshake. The merciless brakes threaten to inflict reverse whiplash injury. The suspension holds the road like an unsprung magnetic field. Dressed to impress with go-faster stripework and plenty of drag-cutting add-ons, the Superleggera marks the transition from boulevard racer to hardcore supercar that can't wait to be unleashed. This Lamborghini redefines the demarcation line between pain and pleasure, punishment and reward. Its helm dismisses you with chimney-sweeper palms, its exhaust system temporarily impairs your hearing, its chassis is liable to blur your field of vision, and its transmission combs your hair backwards as it changes gear at 8500 rpm sharp. The term cruise missile comes to mind as phenomenal grip and insane traction make the mighty orange wedge stick to its flight path as if inertia, mass, and g-force were totally negligible dynamic commodities."
Full review -->>
http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews...0_4/index.html
Mar 25, 2010 | 02:50 PM
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^^ Fixed the broken url for you and here is Car & Drivers
"It seems as if Ferrari and Lamborghini are always launching their new cars in reaction to each other. The latest example is Lamborghini launching the LP570-4 Superleggera (Italian for “super light”) just months after Ferrari, introduced the 458 Italia. But the game won’t involve one-upmanship this time, as there’s little chance that the Lamborghini can overtake the Ferrari on the road: Both offer the same 562 hp and weigh about 3400 pounds. Indeed, their manufacturers claim identical 3.4-second 0-to-62-mph times and 202-mph top speeds.
Adding Lightness . . .
We sampled the new Superleggera close to Lamborghini’s base, with the sophisticated character of the 458 Italia relatively fresh in our mind. The Lamborghini’s personality is much rougher in comparison, a trait signaled by its wild exterior. Compared with the regular Gallardo LP560-4, the car has larger front intake nostrils like those on the Murciélago LP670-4 SV, and they send more air to the radiators and are said to impart extra front-end downforce. The diffuser and spoiler at the rear are bigger, and Lambo says they provide more downforce, too. The side skirts are different and the Superleggera gets a unique wheel design. Our tester had the truly extroverted large rear wing, but more shy buyers—as if Lambo customers could be described as such—can specify a smaller piece. But it’s not as if this car will ever fly below the radar of law enforcement.
The Superleggera is lighter than the stock Gallardo by a claimed 154 pounds, 88 of which are accounted for by the use of carbon fiber for the engine-cover frame, the external mirrors, the rear spoiler, the side skirts, and the diffuser. The remaining weight loss comes from the new wheels and interior changes. The 19-inch forged aluminum wheels—attached with titanium lug nuts and shod with 235/35 front and 295/30 rear Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires—save 29 pounds. Inside, the center tunnel, door panels, and bucket seats are now rendered in carbon fiber, and trimming the seats and dashboard with Alcantara instead of leather also helped the slimming process.
. . . and Power
The Gallardo’s 5.2-liter V-10 engine makes 10 more horsepower in the Superleggera than in the LP560-4, thanks to revised engine management calibration. Torque remains the same, at 398 lb-ft. The Superleggera comes standard with Lamborghini’s e-gear automated manual transmission, and a conventional six-speed manual with gated shifter is a no-cost option. The e-gear transmission has three modes; Normal and Corsa are fully automatic, whereas Sport is a manual mode activated via the steering-wheel-mounted paddle shifters. Lamborghini also has programmed in a launch-control system, called Thrust mode, which drops the clutch at 5000 rpm for maximum acceleration off the line.
The engine is incredibly responsive to commands from the throttle and sounds malevolent, even at idle. On the move, the V-10 is incredibly aggressive, emitting a deep bark at full throttle that’s wilder and more brutal than the Ferrari Italia’s engine note. And the car is seriously fast in a straight line. Lamborghini’s claimed 0-to-62-mph time looks conservative, because we managed to cover the sprint in 3.2 seconds in an LP560-4, which has slightly less power and weighs in at just over 3500 pounds. Lamborghini also claims a 10.2-second run to 124 mph, so 100 mph should come up in less than seven seconds.
A Harder Core
The Superleggera gets suspension changes to make it even sportier, with firmer shock settings and stiffer anti-roll bars. Switching between the transmission modes has no effect on the suspension, which already is about as tied down as you want in a street car. The steering is precise and extremely sensitive, but the trade-off from the suspension modifications is a harsh ride over small undulations. It’s certainly a sharper weapon than the regular Gallardo, but it’s also almost too much like a racing car on the street.
Like the Gallardo LP560-4, the extra weight of the all-wheel-drive system at the front end makes it understeer more than the 458 Italia on corner entry, but as you feed the power in, the central viscous coupling transfers torque to the rear axle and it’s possible to get the tail out, provided the stability-control system is switched off. Although the Superleggera is quite compact, outward visibility isn’t that great, and we’d recommend ordering the optional rear-view camera (which lives under the spoiler), as it’s certainly cheaper than buying a new bumper.
A Heftier Sticker
Just 618 examples of the previous Gallardo Superleggera were sold worldwide, but Lamborghini is hoping to sell considerably more this time around. U.S pricing has yet to be confirmed, but based on the pre-tax European sticker of €175,400, we figure the base price will be around $235,000, or just over $30,000 more than the Gallardo LP560-4. Add in desirable options such as navigation, the front-end lifting system, the rear-view camera, and carbon-ceramic brakes, and the price will easily reach more than $250K. Coming back to the rivalry between the preeminent Italian sports-car makers, the Superleggera is definitely a wilder, more extroverted car than is Ferrari’s 458 Italia, but we’ll defer judgment on which is better until we can compare them side by side.
Full info and pictures -->> 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera - First Drive Review - Auto Reviews - Car and Driver
"It seems as if Ferrari and Lamborghini are always launching their new cars in reaction to each other. The latest example is Lamborghini launching the LP570-4 Superleggera (Italian for “super light”) just months after Ferrari, introduced the 458 Italia. But the game won’t involve one-upmanship this time, as there’s little chance that the Lamborghini can overtake the Ferrari on the road: Both offer the same 562 hp and weigh about 3400 pounds. Indeed, their manufacturers claim identical 3.4-second 0-to-62-mph times and 202-mph top speeds.
Adding Lightness . . .
We sampled the new Superleggera close to Lamborghini’s base, with the sophisticated character of the 458 Italia relatively fresh in our mind. The Lamborghini’s personality is much rougher in comparison, a trait signaled by its wild exterior. Compared with the regular Gallardo LP560-4, the car has larger front intake nostrils like those on the Murciélago LP670-4 SV, and they send more air to the radiators and are said to impart extra front-end downforce. The diffuser and spoiler at the rear are bigger, and Lambo says they provide more downforce, too. The side skirts are different and the Superleggera gets a unique wheel design. Our tester had the truly extroverted large rear wing, but more shy buyers—as if Lambo customers could be described as such—can specify a smaller piece. But it’s not as if this car will ever fly below the radar of law enforcement.
The Superleggera is lighter than the stock Gallardo by a claimed 154 pounds, 88 of which are accounted for by the use of carbon fiber for the engine-cover frame, the external mirrors, the rear spoiler, the side skirts, and the diffuser. The remaining weight loss comes from the new wheels and interior changes. The 19-inch forged aluminum wheels—attached with titanium lug nuts and shod with 235/35 front and 295/30 rear Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires—save 29 pounds. Inside, the center tunnel, door panels, and bucket seats are now rendered in carbon fiber, and trimming the seats and dashboard with Alcantara instead of leather also helped the slimming process.
. . . and Power
The Gallardo’s 5.2-liter V-10 engine makes 10 more horsepower in the Superleggera than in the LP560-4, thanks to revised engine management calibration. Torque remains the same, at 398 lb-ft. The Superleggera comes standard with Lamborghini’s e-gear automated manual transmission, and a conventional six-speed manual with gated shifter is a no-cost option. The e-gear transmission has three modes; Normal and Corsa are fully automatic, whereas Sport is a manual mode activated via the steering-wheel-mounted paddle shifters. Lamborghini also has programmed in a launch-control system, called Thrust mode, which drops the clutch at 5000 rpm for maximum acceleration off the line.
The engine is incredibly responsive to commands from the throttle and sounds malevolent, even at idle. On the move, the V-10 is incredibly aggressive, emitting a deep bark at full throttle that’s wilder and more brutal than the Ferrari Italia’s engine note. And the car is seriously fast in a straight line. Lamborghini’s claimed 0-to-62-mph time looks conservative, because we managed to cover the sprint in 3.2 seconds in an LP560-4, which has slightly less power and weighs in at just over 3500 pounds. Lamborghini also claims a 10.2-second run to 124 mph, so 100 mph should come up in less than seven seconds.
A Harder Core
The Superleggera gets suspension changes to make it even sportier, with firmer shock settings and stiffer anti-roll bars. Switching between the transmission modes has no effect on the suspension, which already is about as tied down as you want in a street car. The steering is precise and extremely sensitive, but the trade-off from the suspension modifications is a harsh ride over small undulations. It’s certainly a sharper weapon than the regular Gallardo, but it’s also almost too much like a racing car on the street.
Like the Gallardo LP560-4, the extra weight of the all-wheel-drive system at the front end makes it understeer more than the 458 Italia on corner entry, but as you feed the power in, the central viscous coupling transfers torque to the rear axle and it’s possible to get the tail out, provided the stability-control system is switched off. Although the Superleggera is quite compact, outward visibility isn’t that great, and we’d recommend ordering the optional rear-view camera (which lives under the spoiler), as it’s certainly cheaper than buying a new bumper.
A Heftier Sticker
Just 618 examples of the previous Gallardo Superleggera were sold worldwide, but Lamborghini is hoping to sell considerably more this time around. U.S pricing has yet to be confirmed, but based on the pre-tax European sticker of €175,400, we figure the base price will be around $235,000, or just over $30,000 more than the Gallardo LP560-4. Add in desirable options such as navigation, the front-end lifting system, the rear-view camera, and carbon-ceramic brakes, and the price will easily reach more than $250K. Coming back to the rivalry between the preeminent Italian sports-car makers, the Superleggera is definitely a wilder, more extroverted car than is Ferrari’s 458 Italia, but we’ll defer judgment on which is better until we can compare them side by side.
Full info and pictures -->> 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera - First Drive Review - Auto Reviews - Car and Driver
i vote we turn this into the lp-570 SL thread! 
Mar 25, 2010 | 07:01 PM
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MT JUST UPLOADED THE VID
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Mar 26, 2010 | 01:45 AM
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An LP570-4 SL Picture Thread, now that is a great idea. I vote for DJ to start it up since me and D55L have already made Lamborghini Picture Threads.
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