http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png http://jalopnik.com/tag/superleggera http://jalopnik.com/tag/superleggera Now a third tester's joined the Lamborghini Jota and maybe-Jota Superleggera at the 'Ring. [WCF] More »
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Two fully-camouflaged variants of the Lamborghini Jota were seen testing at the Nurburgring, one with a spoiler, one without. Could it be Lamborghini's mysterious 83X project is really a Jota Superleggera? More »
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The name’s Brown. David Brown. So my company built this car and I can’t fit my dogs and my guns in there? That’s just preposterous! Make me an Aston Martin DB5 shooting brake. More »
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This bit of Lamborghini advertising sports raw visuals, flying boulders, a foreboding atmosphere, and a Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera. It's supposed to be elemental and intimidating, but calling your super car a pacemaker right at the end seems ill-advised. More »
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At 2954 lbs, the enormous-nostriled Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 SuperLeggera is the lightest Lambo currently made. At 561 HP, it's also the most powerful Gallardo. Now this is our type of green car. More »
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Holy cow, look at the size of the intakes on the Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera! This thing's going to hoover up cats and dogs that stray into the road as fast as its owner pack away the nose candy. More »
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Lamborghini's been extremely forthright in their mission to release a new car yearly and with the LP550-2 Balboni making headlines earlier this month, it begs the question — will we see an LP550-2 Superleggera? More »
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The Ferrari 599 GTB seats only two, the 612 Scaglietti is big—but what if you have kids, dogs and elephant guns to carry? Enter the custom-built Quattroporte Bellagio, certainly not your daddy's station wagon. More »
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The Nissan 370Z is a substantial update from the previous generation, but can it outperform a radically upgraded Amuse NISMO 350Z Superleggera? Watch and see who earns the overly dramatic music award. [YouTube via Straightline] More »
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Do you consider yourself a "hot shoe" driver? Well, now your female significant other can share the bragging rights with these renderings of some seriously "hot" Lamborghini-branded high heels. More »
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What happens when you combine a Lamborghini Superleggera with fancy china? High-speed tea. With the help of a really gentle crane, William Ashley China of Toronto has placed a new Lamborghini on a set of tea cups as the centerpiece of an unavoidable and clever piece of advertising for the store. The Italian exotic is resting only on those four cups and nothing else. This isn't the first time the store has attempted such a feat. Previously, they used a base Gallardo. We think the choice of the lighter Superleggera version is inspired, and next to a $225,000 Lambo, a $4,300 gravy boat seems much more reasonable. (Thanks to Kevin for the shots and info)

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Next year represents the 60th anniversary of Ferrari's 1949 wins at Mille Miglia, 24 hours of Le Mans and 24-hours of Francorchamps — the first wins in what would be an illustrious Ferrari racing history. As such, there are rumors Carrozzeria Touring is readying a coachbuilt celebration of those wins destined to be called the Touring Superleggera. While it won't be based on the 166 Barchetta Touring that made history in 1949, it could be based on any number of modern Ferraris; the 612 seems to be the most likely. Our biggest question is "what will it look like?" We put pencil to paper in an attempt to find out; the result after the jump. More »
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We'll have to wait until this fall to get a good look at the Ferrari that lightness begat, but according to the Italian Autobloggers the price will be anything but unweighty. Word is the stripper F430, producing 500+ horsepower to pull 220.5 pounds less weight, will cost as much as a 599GTB, or around $268,000 at the current euros-to-english exchange rate. Still, that'll put it in range of its closest German rival, the Porsche GT2, though more than $40,000 more than the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. This can't possibly end well for the world's leadfooted bond traders. – Mike Spinelli More »
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On today's "Look Who's on the N rburgring," our guest is the Lamborghini Murcielago Superleggera. Let's hear it. Right, so Lambo's working up a lightened version of its flagship Murcielago and tagging it with the company's "super light" designation. Again, they've replaced door panels, engine cover, wing, mirrors and central tunnel cover with carbon fiber components, reducing weight by between 220 lbs and 330 lbs — that's trimmed from the LP640's hefty 3670 lbs. Power will likely be in the 700 hp range and top speed around 217 mph. Look for a proper unveiling later this year in Frankfurt, if the thing doesn't just spin right off the earth before then. – Mike Spinelli More »
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When he's not writing Car Hack's Notebook columns for the Jalop, our mate from Birmingham, UK, Nick Hall must suffer his day job. Such drudgery it is to fly to Scottsdale, Arizona to drive the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera in the desert at ludicrous speeds, trying to outwit a police force that lives to put his speed-gathering ass in the joint. What torture it must be to face the blank page after such a trip. More »
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Taking an early swing by the Lambo booth yesterday, we caught the Grabber Orange (or thereabout) Superleggera unmolested by the show crowd. It looked quite a bit more amped up than the flat-gray model that starred in Geneva. We took the opportunity (notwithstanding one ill-placed union ladder) to take some triple-x car pr0n. We tried to pick it up, but even with the carbon fiber and lack of a radio, the super-light lambo is still pretty weighty. – Mike Spinelli More »
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There are few words in the English language as impossibly awesome as "superleggera." And since, Jalopnik's essential mission is to celebrate the awesome, we would like to point out that the superleggera version of anything this side of Glenn Seaborg's personal collection of transuranic elements, Fort Knox' stash of gold and Tony Iommi's guitar tone is pretty much the best rendition of anything the term is applied to. Go ahead and try it. Add "Superleggera" to your own car. If your neighbors do not envy the Colt Vista Superleggera, there is merely the simple matter of taking a machete to their mailbox to inform them of the error of their ways. Sadly, we now realize that Taco Bell with come out with a Seven-Layer Superleggera Burrito with all of the flavor and none of the carbs without realizing that "superleggera" is American, rather than Mexican. Such is the pain of being a Jalopnik. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Lamborghini's Gallardo Superleggera is 220 pounds lighter — and 10 horsepowers hotter than the Gallardo SE. That decreases its time in the zero-to-62 mph run from four seconds to 3.8 seconds. Not a particularly mindbending difference in the scheme of supercar performance, but Lambo totally gets the concept of incremental bragging rights among well-heeled buyers. By whatever five-figure premium the Superleggera demands, mainly from carbon-fiber costs, Lamborghini will probably raise its gross margins by at least a point or two. That'll make the Audi bosses crack one hell of a reserved half-smile. – Mike Spinelli More »
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The high priests of Sant'Agata have dispatched a messenger with their latest proclamation. We'll paraphrase. "And shall it be so, that the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera will be one sporty MF. It shall be 150 pounds or so lighter and its engine computer will be remapped. Further, improved volumetric efficiency will be achieved through reduced intake load losses and by exhaust backpressures [better exhaust - ed.], such that it will produce 530 hp." See you in Geneva, my liege. – Mike Spinelli More »
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According to the Italian motoring press, Lamborghini's rolling out a lightened version of its Gallardo at the Geneva show. It's the Superleggera (literally, "super light"), and it's getting that way (minus 220 pounds) via a few choice carbon fiber body-panel replacements and a stripped interior. The V10's getting a 10-hp boost to 530 hp, and all-wheel drive, and its commensurate weight liability, will remain. Nonetheless, it'll reportedly be quicker than the standard model, with a reported zero to 62 mph (100 km/h) time of 3.8 seconds, vs 4.2 seconds. The lightened bull will likely be a worthy adversary for Ferrari's new, similarly de-weighted F430 Challange Stradale, though we'd have to see them head to head Monza to make a proper determination. Preferably while sipping a Campari and soda. – Mike Spinelli More »
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