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Excited? You should be, you automotive rascals. Lamborghini is serving up a treat for you, so you better bring your big plate...
What you see above is the Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Blancpain Edition. For
the peasants among you, Blancpain make watches. Like, really expensive ones. A
Blancpain watch is to a wrist-based timepiece what the Palace of Versailles is
to a land-based residence.
Blancpain also sponsors Lamborghini's lightly insane Super Trofeo race series -
the fastest one-make series on Earth - so the good folk at Sant’Agata felt it
necessary to smother a Superleggera in carbon fibre and roll out a new
Gallardo. All hail the Blancpain Edition!
See more pics of the Blancpain Lambo
Regular readers of TopGear.com will know Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann is serious about carbon fibre - the new supercar set to debut at Paris is likely to bleed it - and as such this Blancpain Gallardo gets a mighty carbon fibre rear spoiler, new engine cover (for ventilation), diffuser, new mirror casings, carbon-ceramic brake discs and calipers, and 'Skorpius' wheels.
The seats are stitched in Alcantara with yellow accents and visible carbon
fibre, along with the Blancpain logo stitched about the cabin.
Lamborghini reckons the Gallardo's performance is enhanced by these
carbon-fibre details, but the specs are equal to the standard 570-4
Superleggera: the 5.2-litre V10 generates 565bhp and propels the Gallardo, its
owners and their soon-to-be-emptied stomachs from 0-62mph in just 3.4 seconds
and on to a top speed of over 200mph. Sant’Agata also proudly trumpets the
Blancpain's weight boasts no more than 1,340kg - the same as the Superleggera.
Still, this be no bad thing indeed. 570bhp in something weighing the same as a
Focus diesel is a Good Thing. Like it?
And
now, rather spuriously, is some more Lamborghini goodness. US tuner Underground
Racing has tweaked the mighty, meaty and magnificent Murcielago LP670-4. And by
tweaked, we mean wig-splitting, ice-cap melting tweakery. They've pumped the
Murci's power from 670bhp to 1,100bhp using two turbochargers.
Watch Underground Racing's promo vid and tell us you're not fizzing...
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What do you think?
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InYourFace commented on this article
at 12:57 pm on 27 September 2010
This "new" Gallardo is stupid! How much more will it cost, just so you can have some stupid advertisements painted on your beautiful Lambo? I'd rather have the standard Superleggera!!! But this LP670-4 or rather LP1100-4 is insane :p! I Like!
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RealMan commented on this article
at 01:14 pm on 27 September 2010
Anything Lambo is fun. i am not a big fan but any motor that pushes the boundaries is my thing. 1,101bhp is great. Weight loss is great. The noise is great. The looks are great. One disappointment is that there is no fire extinguisher in there some where and that means it has a self-destruct button. Wont be lung before it commits suicide by setting fire on itself.
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KingKilian commented on this article
at 01:33 pm on 27 September 2010
Pretty boring ... ^^
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samey.umako commented on this article
at 02:27 pm on 27 September 2010
For reasons I can't explain, it reminds me of the Countach... the spoiler maybe, or the angles... Put a couple of pornstars next to it and you have the perfect photograph!!
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Takk commented on this article
at 02:32 pm on 27 September 2010
I was getting bored with all those ltd series Lambo's but this one's alright. If only for its mucus invoking looks. Tuning Lambo's after market is a bit tasteless though. You wouldn't try to improve on a Van Gogh either, would you?
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