To answer your question with 3 simple words. VDT Remember this is Italian madness mixed with some common sense from captain sensible (Audi) always goo green If you can.. I'll probably woun't buy this eitherway... I need the cabrio so I can hear the engine... Edit: Not liking the paint me either should have been orange... Or maybe it is time to introduce something "new" like a hardcore two tone allover maybe green and black?!
This is really interesting, VAG's first rear wheel car. IT will be quite a delight to read about how the car behaves or whether VAG can play the RWD game too.
Lol. How Martin? Excluding Porsche, the VAG/PAG concern has only been supplying the people AWD and FWD automobiles during the latest 5-7 years or so.
The fact that Lamborghini is now offering a two-wheel drive version of the Gallardo is incidental and has no bearing on whether they can "pull RWD off or not" or any significance regarding such a strategy for the rest of the stable. The Lambo Gallardo is a mid-engined supercar. This means that it, inherently, is rear-wheel drive and only some very deliberate and finicky engineering gets a little power to the front wheels. For the LP550-2 this is not a move toward rear-wheel drive but rather a simple reversion from AWD to the simpler, lighter system that was already there from the outset.
IE, interesting interpretation (your own) of my post. You sound irritated...? I never used the term "natural AWD" - that concept is in your own mind alone. But hey, let's run with the analogy you've put forward. Let's consider the Audi S3. It's a transverse-mounted AWD layout vehicle derived from a FWD vehicle. Let's hypothetically say that the next S3 is FWD only. In such a case it would be fundamentally incorrect to say that Audi would be making a more toward FWD when the system, clearly, is an inherent FWD one from outset. The drivetrain to the rear is very much add-on "stuff". The same could be said if, in the future, all BMWs are xDrive and one comes out that's RWD all of a sudden. Fundamentally, nearly every AWD drivetrain is an add-on to an existing two-wheel drive system. The Lamborghini Gallardo has much more in common with an F430 than it does with an RS6. The LP550-2 proves this.
We knew this is coming when Lamborghini launched the face lift Gallardo calling it LP560-4, and emphasis the '4' in the name. Interesting to see that this model was given the go ahead, the previous Gallardo SL wasn't given the RWD treatment because engineers claimed it had caused an 'imbalance in the car's handling characteristics'.
Simply awesome, looks really cool! Both, interior & exterior lines are hot! If it's a Lambo, it must be gorgeous!
Some News on Specifications for the Car. Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2: The Perfect Bull? By The Auto Insider 9:45 AM on Mon Jun 29 2009 Assuming this leaked set of photos are the Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2, then Lamborghini's finally given enthusiasts what they've wanted, dropping their grip-locked all-wheel-drive system in favor of rear-wheel-drive action. With a six-speed manual, could this be the perfect Lambo? The reason for the lessened number designation relates to a slightly de-tuned 5.2-liter V10 that makes 550 horsepower rather than the 552 in the 560-4, but that lack of two ponies doesn't make this Italian a slacker with a dash to 100 km/h arriving in 3.9 seconds. This is helped by a 30 kg overall weight reduction. Limited to 250 units worldwide, the LP550-2 features a 10% price reduction over its all-wheel-drive brethren, comes in any one of eight exterior colors and comes with a special white livery. Official specs and data is slowly leaking out of Sant'Agata and we'll bring you all the latest as it becomes available. Source: here
Paint scheme looks sleek, love to see it on white, black or lime green tho As for the 10bhp less, well AWD produces more BHP at the wheel, so when you take the power delivery away from the front wheels, less BHp at the wheels is produced I'm guessing, maybe some of our mechanics could tell us different:t-cheers:
That didn't make any sense to me on multiple levels. One, the 550 or 560 rin LP550 or LP560 refers to the engine HP, not wheel HP and engine HP is absolutely not effected by if it is drving 4 wheels or 2 wheels. Even if we assume it was wheel HP for a sec, taking away AWD and replacing with RWD will not reduce the wheel HP, if anything it will increase it, since the drive line losses are lesser when you only have to drive only 2 wheels vs 4.
I suppose it's just a marketing trick, trying to keep the AWD version in a slightly superior level compared to its new brother.
