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if you don't recognize a Lamborghini on sight you probably don't recognize your own lovin these cars are iconic and they've had this certain look since the days of the Countach kind of like this partly open Swiss Army knife on wheels just edges everywhere this cars a Guyardo it's their entry-level car if there is such a thing in their line let's decode what it's name to LP is plunge into the now a posteriori that's the odd way the engine is in the back in line with the car with the transmission in the rear of that 570 is the power output but that's in metric horsepower 4 means it's all wheel drive and then there's Superleggera superlight it's the key to our story that shaves off 154 pounds bring this car in at just 29 54 that's 355 pounds less than a Nissan Z which is not exactly a big car now as you may have noticed the main course on this Weight Watchers program is carbon fiber the real deal not those appliques you stick on your car this wing this lid this is normally aluminum carbon fiber here polycarbonate over the engine as well as the rear back light the shells of the seats are carbon fiber with thin Alcantara upholstery and damn little padding all that adds up or adds down to 154 pounds saved and all of it mounted to the same aluminum body shell and space frame design of a standard Guyardo that all spells light but it also spells tremendously strong this isn't just a fast car it's also a very safe one that's how you'll get permission from your wife yes if you look like this you deserve to have the world look at you through a glass cover this is the 5.2 liter Lamborghini v10 it was actually developed for the introduction of this car a clean sheet design not a rehash of the audi v10 contrary to rumors this guy has 562 horsepower 398 foot-pounds of torque big difference there this is a revving motor not a grunting motor zero to sixty happens in under 3.4 seconds in the hands of the right driver 14 20 mpg if you care our transmission is the much more common 6-speed automated manual it's a single clutch design which we're going to evaluate in a minute you can also get a manual gearbox in this guy also with six cogs they're exceedingly rare if you're a collector that's your choice if you're a driver Lamborghini says this is the one you want now once you wedge yourself into a guard oh it's pretty tight quarters and you can't do a whole hell of a lot about it in this car Superleggera you've only got basically one seat adjustment a mechanical four aft no motors to go any other way to save weight once you're seated plenty of things tell you this is a distinctive Italian car that does things its own way the power window switches push up to go down push down to go up huh your transmission controls are right here in the center console except for reverse which lives over here by the front hood release and when I got in this morning all that rain water on the roof was conveniently run not down a rain channel but down the back of my shirt and partly inside the seat these are Italian cars the main event in terms of Technology in the cabin is this dated but functional outtie head unit they haven't used this in an Audi in quite some time but of course Audie owns Lamborghini and this is about all you can make work on the data bus within this relatively aged car the optional head unit gets you an iPod connector in the glovebox and if you pop the screen you'll find two SD card slots there as well don't get excited about the DVD player that's a data drive for the map not for watching movies this rear view camera is optional it's one of the worst I've seen in terms of resolution poor dynamic range and very crunchy resolution but you do need it in this car because well it's the only way to see out the back but this is not why you buy a Lamborghini things that connect to these buttons are here your transmission controls for the automated manual the a button toggles between automatic mode or shift it yourself with the paddle mode that's their idea of manual sport is a layer on top of that that's going to sharpen your throttle response back off stability control quite a bit and also open up the exhaust baffling to sound like some kind of belch from hell finally there's Corsa track mode that cancels almost all stability control and probably your insurance this little button here is interesting slice of life with a Lamborghini you press that to raise or lower the front of the car that gets you over speed bumps without leaving 20% of your Guyardo behind but SD card slots and little blip the thing is those are not let you buy a Guyardo this is so what's it like to drive a Guyardo in general violent stiff the car is incredibly light I don't just mean in terms of weight but I mean the power-to-weight ratio sometimes the car Falls a little flat on its face that's the nature of a single clutch automated manual they just can't do that ping-pong thing that allows the car to have seamless application of power Wow does it go now you might think this car is never really at home unless it's on the track but at signora Lamborghini said famously years ago we have no test track our cars are built for the road and that's the way it should be this is not a car that you drive to work every day but on the days you do you smile from 9:00 to 5:00 just waiting for the drive home right before you race down to the dealer let me help you price out our bumblebee friend CNET style bass on a Superleggera is about 2:38 it's a high-end Guyardo of course 29.95 delivery charge must come in a velvet line box or something $2,100 gas guzzler test but at this price you don't care now the tech toy navigation Bluetooth and media inputs 35:10 if you want those painted body color at 850 more if you want the rear camera plugged into that that's another twenty six hundred bucks forty one fifty for the full carbon fiber kit inside in addition to the door panels and 15 six for carbon ceramic brakes