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2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

As the expected delivery date nears for the lighter, more powerful Ferrari Challenge Stradale, Lamborghini loyalists get this good news: 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 (usually a $10,000 option) 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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