
You’ve heard the stories about the Lamborghini Countach and you too probably had a poster of it – is it maybe the most widespread car poster ever?
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Power from the 5.7-liter V12 engine was rated at around 490 hp, while torque was around 576 Nm, or 425 lb-ft; the benchmark sprint came up in a mediocre 4.8 seconds, while top speed was a more acceptable 304 km/h or 190 mph.
The video posted below shows two of these uber-rare fiberglass-bodied machines, one of which is wearing the US stars and stripes, being featured in magazines back in the day, while the other one is yellow. The latter is the car that is driven, and while it may lack the purity of the true Italians, it still looks very interesting, even all these years after it was launched and quickly phased out due to its high price.
Perhaps it’s better that there are very few of these, and it makes it all the more interesting. Besides, if they really wanted to make more of them, something should definitely have been done about that interior which, even by (low) mid-nineties American standards of quality looked quite nasty…
By Andrei Nedelea
Story References: YouTube via Autoblog/com
That's all fine and dandy, but there's something very frustrating about the way Lamborghini has chosen to promote the unveiling of the car through a microsite that brings you to an icon of an engine starter and the following caption:
"Listen to your instinct. Discover the roar of the new creature from Lamborghini. That will be just the beginning."
To open the microsite, you have to "like" the page on Facebook and accept the fact that Lamborghini will have access to your profile and friends -which I hesitantly did for researching purposes, but the thing is, even if you do accept, nothing happens…
On Lamborghini's FB page, member Dominic C. posted: "I left my mail and shared to my facebook but seems nothing works yet," to which the Italians replied, "You just have to wait and keep sharing. The more you share the faster you discover!".
Really Lamborghini; "the more you keep sharing"? No thanks, think I'll pass…
Update: To make it work and hear the five-second engine roar after you "like" the microsite on FB, you have to return to the front page (or just click here)and hit the start button. To do so again, you have to refresh the page as the start button disappears...

That all changed when Audi took over in 1998 and starting with the Diablo, Lamborghini initially started selling cars in the thousands, and with the Gallardo, tens of thousands. To be precise, the Italians sold 14,022 units of the Gallardo from 2003 to 2013, the last of which left the production line today (November 25, 2013).
The final model is a Gallardo LP 570-4 Spyder Performante in a Rosso Mars (red) shade and it is destined for an unnamed, private collector who will soon receive his ride.
In the ten years that the Gallardo series remained it production, it become Lamborghini's most commercially successful model ever, helping the company move from an average of just 250 cars built per year in the brand's first four decades, to around 2,000 vehicles today. In fact, the Gallardo's sales represent almost half of all 30,000 Lamborghinis built since the company was first founded in 1963…
The Gallardo was presented in 2003, with the open-top Spyder added to the lineup in 2005, followed by the lighter and more powerful 530PS Superleggera coupe in 2007. The next year, Lamborghini updated the Gallardo with a redesigned front and rear, a new engine with gasoline direct injection and 560PS for the regular models, and 570PS for the new Superleggera that appeared in 2010. Another light update came in 2012.
Special editions included the rear-wheel drive LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni and LP 550-2 Spyder, the Super Trofeo Stradale and the lighter Squadra Corse.
A replacement for the Gallardo, possibly named Cabrera, is planned for next year.

Seen here parked next to an Audi sedan at a gas station in Europe, the new Lamborghini's supercar proportions and especially its low height and wide body become instantly clear, while the absence of the trick moldings allow us to view its wedge-shape and some of the Aventador-like details such as the headlamp clusters.
Sharing its underpinning with the next iteration of the Audi R8, the Gallardo's replacement will draw its power from an evolved version of the current naturally aspirated V10 engine with around 600-horses connected to a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission, driving either the rear or all-four wheels.
Photo Credits: CarPix for CarScoopS

The rendered interpretation you see here, brought to you courtesy of Wild-Speed, looks very close to what we think it will look like in production form. It features the visible front intakes shape, believable headlights, side intakes matching what we see in the spyshots, and equally believable rear clusters.
The overall shape seems spot on too, and the designer even ponders the addition of active rear aero, making two different interpretations of the rear – with or without a small spoiler.
Now scroll down, check it out and have your say in the comments section that follows the gallery you’ll find below.
By Andrei Nedelea
Photos: Wild-Speed via Autoevolution
