Lightweight Lamborghini

Lamborghini Superleggera

Slobber... Dribble... Drool... Gibber... Sorry, let us just gather ourselves. This is, gulp, the new Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera. Superleggera, for those who were reading the Serie A results in the back of Italian class, means Very Light, which means, in turn, that this latest version of the Gallardo has a 530bhp V10 5.0-litre engine and hits a magic bhp-per-tonne figure of 400bhp/tonne. That's thanks to a radical, 911 GT3-style-diet that uses thinner glass, thinner seats and the binning of all the sound deadening and the radio. You still do get air conditioning and four-wheel-drive, however, which Lamborghini hopes will make the Gallardo Superleggera more useable and friendly day-to-day than its key rivals, the Ferrari F430 Challenge Stradale (which gets unleashed next year) and the Porsche 911 GT3 (just out).

So let's see, a Lamborghini with more power, less weight and no sound-proofing and it's supposed to be user-friendly? Right. The queue for the brown trousers starts on the right...