Yella Fella, Inside Line drives the new LP570-4 Superleggera!
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Yella Fella, Inside Line drives the new LP570-4 Superleggera! 
"The 5.0-liter V10 spits, takes a big gulp of air through its two monster throttle bodies and cracks open with all four exhausts rattling the sky, then settles into a loud, slightly offbeat idle.
The menace is never far away with this engine. At idle, there's a stiff initial resistance before the throttle pedal gives you what feels like an infinite ability to choose exactly the right rpm at exactly the right time. It also gives you an infinite ability to send a spine-tickling ripple up your spine, not to mention twist the neck of any bystander within 100 yards.
Even by the standards of a company where subtlety is as foreign as a four-cylinder engine, the 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera is shockingly ostentatious. But this is as it should be, as this is the fastest Gallardo ever built.
Menace on Four Wheels
Just look at the car. There is an enormous carbon-fiber rear wing, with the option of an even larger one. There are 19-inch Otto Fuchs forged-aluminum wheels that each reduce unsprung weight by about 7 pounds over the standard wheels, and they carry Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires with mere slivers of sidewalls, 235/35ZR19s in front and 295/30ZR19s in the rear. There is a visually loud streak up both flanks, while the nose has been cranked with Reventon-esque air intakes that double as front wings.
And if you miss the Superleggera's identity from the front, you won't mistake it from the back. Not when there's a carbon-fiber aero diffuser that is about the same size as a bathtub and creates more downforce than the wing. For added dignity, the 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera also has four, fat, unchromed exhausts that stick out like the barrels of a battleship's gun battery.
But if the LP570-4 Superleggera is ostentatious from the outside, it's a different story when you open the featherweight door that will fling wide at a finger's touch. The soft, multi-adjustable seats of the standard Gallardo are gone, replaced by carbon-shelled units trimmed in artificial suede, and the fit is so tight that the car might well come with an optional shoehorn to get you into them. A racing-style, four-point seatbelt harness (complete with raging bull motif) is in place for each of the seats.
And as you'd expect in a lightweight racer, all extraneous accessories have been cast aside, so the center console is gone. So, too, the navigation unit and the audio system and just about anything else that doesn't help the Lamborghini go faster.
Lean and Mean Lamborghini
Not that the Lamborghini Gallardo with its aluminum spaceframe is a chubby little unit in standard form. It might weigh less than most midsize sedans, even though there's a great lump of V10 sitting in the middle of it, yet Lamborghini's tech boffins have torn the car to shreds in order to remove 154 pounds of excess weight."
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2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera First Drive
All pics credit to Inside Line
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