Lamborghini Gallardo: data sheet

Engine: 10c V 90°
Engine size: 5.204 cm3
Weight: 1480 Kg
Max. power: 560 Cv a 8.000 revs / min
Max. torque: 540 Nm a 6.500 revs/min
Specific power: 108 Cv/l
Max. speed: 325 Km/h
Acceleration 0-100 Km/h: 3,7 sec
Drive: four-wheel
Transmission: roboted sequential with shift paddle

The driver’s comments

I get ready in the cabin of the Lambo Gallardo: 10cylinders that give me thrills every time I drive on the straightline. It is a four-wheel drive, which I normaly hate. But this is different, because it behaves like a rear-wheel drive car… when you give gas, you do not feel that common annoying understeering that characterizes a lot of four-wheel drive cars. It is just great, I feel that it is “smooth” and fairly small, it is winding.

I enter the Parabolica, balance the gas for a moment, then give full gas and… the shift paddles do not follow the steering wheel! I have to remove my right hand to shift up.