German Car Zone

The Next Generation Of Point And Shoot

Get any girl's number, the big screen tells us. Get into any club.

We're watching a Gallardo movie, a corporate advertisement for the new LP560-4. A pair of them-one black, one white-tear through an unnamed city, powersliding around corners and generally hooning about before slinking past downtown valet lanes and groups of attractive young women looking on wistfully. Lamborghini is trying to get our blood up for driving the car.

But mine is already up. Speaking only for myself, I could do without the club-trolling and number-collecting bits. It's probably true that three-quarters of the Gallardo's target demographic will use the car for nothing more than those two things. Hand me the keys, though, and you'd find me nowhere near the middle of a city. There must be something wrong with me.

In its roughly five years of existence, the Gallardo has become the best-selling Lambo of all time. The LP560-4 is its successor for 2009. Among other things, the new car features a completely new V10 engine that, with 243cc more displacement and direct fuel injection, puts out 552 hp at a screaming 8000 rpm, 40 hp more than the outgoing engine and only about 20 hp shy of the original Murcilago's 572hp peak. It allows acceleration to 62 mph in 3.7 seconds, according to the manufacturer. Top speed is reported to be in the neighborhood of 202 mph.

Not to be labeled as inefficient, however, the new V10 offers fuel consumption and carbon emissions that have been improved/reduced by a claimed 18 percent. Using the throttle judiciously, a Gallardo LP560 driven on the highway could attain economy figures upwards of 20 mpg.


Full Article: 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4


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The Gallardo only has one flaw: the interior. And by that, I mean the size. Most of us would fit perfectly if only we had no left leg.

You can't even sit with your leg cocked because the wheel doesn't go high enough to clear your knees.

It really kills the car

LOL,
A lot of other cars are made this way too.
If you are complaining about this you shouldn't be driving a Gallardo
eitherway...

Yeah, the Arnage, the 360, etc.

Except the 360 (thankfully) has more than enough room to leave your foot near the clutch, or leaned against the door

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