Lamborghini Gallardo

What does a Lamborghini Gallardo have in common with a Toyota Camry. Buyers wailed off in more than 14,000 Gallardos over the car’s 10-year production run, making it Lambo’s most successful model ever. Enter the ­Gallardo’s replacement, the Huracán (OO-rah-kahn), which Lamborghini hopes will build on the glories—sales and otherwise—of its predecessor.
                             The Huracán will use the Gallardo’s 5.2-liter V-10, massaged for an extra 49 horsepower and 15 pound-feet of torque, for totals of 601 and 413, respectively. The additional output comes from a new intake, lower-friction internals, and new cylinder heads featuring both direct and port fuel injection. And while the last Gallardo offered a manual transmission, only 13 people bought Gallardos so equipped in its final year. So it’s no surprise that the Huracán, named for a memorable Spanish fighting bull from 1879, won’t offer a manual, only a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. Power flows to all four wheels via a new electronically managed center differential with a default torque split of 43 percent front/57 percent rear. Those numbers match the car’s front/rear weight distribution, though Lamborghini claims that all of the engine’s power can be sent to the rear axle.
Rear-Wheel Drive Is Key To The Enthusiast's Soul Lamborghini has created so many Gallardo models over the past eight years that it appears to be peddling more flavors than Baskin-Robbins. The Italian automaker has mixed and matched engines, powertrains, paint colors and upholsteries to fabricate such variants as the SE, Super Trofeo, Nera, Bicolore, Tricolore, Valentino Balboni, Blancpain Edition, Superleggera, Spyder Performante, Super Trofeo Stradale, along with limited editions for Malaysia and Singapore, not to mention the Noctis, a variant developed exclusively for Chinese markets