Do you consider the gallardo a real lamborghini?

[testlam]

What do you think? I think its about 20% lambo, the rest is not.

[MarkStudy]

I love Diablo and Murcielago but they are BIG cars

I'm soooo glad Lambo has the Gallardo....I grew up with small race-cars, and Gallardo gives guys like me-
the Lambo exotic looks, experiance, and preformance...without the big car feel.

The Enzo was designed by a Japanese engineer. Gallardo has plenty of German blood. This is a new world.
Isn't worrying about Gallardo not being a Lambo, about the same as worrying about the Diablo not being a Lambo because Chrysler helped get the bugs worked out of that car?

[testlam]

Percentages?!

[pdisme]

I bought my Gallardo for the car that it is and am happy with what I got and the fact that it came from Lamborghini and drives like a Lamborghini. Many of its components came from Audi but it still has the looks, sounds and performance that I wanted and I get the reliability that some Lambo's don't have so I'm still 100% happy with it. I'd have preferred scissor doors and V12 but those were about 20% factors to me while convertible was 50%.

Unless you have a full accounting of which entity did what, there's no way to assign a percentage to it; assuming you can define what is Lamborghini to begin with and then calculate a deviation from it.

[MarkStudy]

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Percentages?!


I'd say 0%

Its a Lambo, or its not --- Diablo
Its a Ferrari, or its not --- ENZO
Its a Audi, or its not ---- R8

Anyone, who can tell me the percentage of a Diablo that is Chrysler? That would be pretty tricky to calculate?



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[Minch00]

I used to be in that camp that thought maybe the Gallardo was too Audi for the Italian brand, but after you sit in one of the cars and realize you get the amazing looks and POWER (THE POWER!!!), and then you realize you have a Navi system with an SD card reader to play mp3s off of, you realize the sensibility the Germans have imparted to the raging bull not so much castrates it, but gives it better horns. Does that make any sense?

[Lasombra52]

Unless you have a full accounting of which entity did what, there's no way to assign a percentage to it; assuming you can define what is Lamborghini to begin with and then calculate a deviation from it.

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I'd say 0%

Its a Lambo, or its not --- Diablo
Its a Ferrari, or its not --- ENZO
Its a Audi, or its not ---- R8

Anyone, who can tell me the percentage of a Diablo that is Chrysler? That would be pretty tricky to calculate?
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Okay, here is my take on this subject, and for whatever reason, it is a touchy subject to some people. Here we go:

Is the Gallardo a Lamborghini? Well technically yeah, they built the thing didn't they?

Lamborghini is owned by Audi, and if it weren't for Audi, we wouldn't have a Gallardo, therefore the Gallardo isn't a Lambo. Okay, your right, Audi does own it, and yeah they had a HUGE part in the Gallardo coming about, but then again, I think they had a HUGE part in coming out with the design of the Murci... Didn't they? Audi took a look at the books and said, hey, let's change the image a little bit. Let's introduce a smaller one, a little bit less hp/tq, regular doors instead of scissor doors, blah, blah, blah, and let's starting showing Ferrari the door for a change.

Now that brings me to my huge thoughts on this. A lamborghini isn't a lambo unless it's a tractor. We all know that Lambo was started by Ferruccio Lamborghini going to meet Enzo Ferrari at the Ferrari factory to complain about the quality of the clutch in the Ferrari 250 GT he owned. If it wasn't this chance meeting with an outside car manufacturer, we would never have had the greatest tractor in the worlds history.

Yeah, I'm being a little general with hsitory here but you get the point.

Innovations in technology have made the Gallardo and Murcielago what they are today.

So to end it, is the Gallardo a Lambo, absolutely, and just as impressive of a vehicle as the murcielago. Just in a slightly different way because they were produced to compete in different money markets.

Just my .02 worth.

::Flame suit on::

[pdisme]

I know how to tell if something is a Lamborghini. If you do the following to your car and the repair bill is more than $100,000, it's a Lamborghini:

http://www.talklambo.com/pics/data/520/lamb0wned.jpg

[Lasombra52]

Ouch:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Monarchy]

yes except for the scissor doors.

[Minch00]

yes except for the scissor doors.

So the Miura, Islero, Jalpa, etc aren't Lamborghinis?

[Monarchy]

So the Miura, Islero, Jalpa, etc aren't Lamborghinis?

lets not be stupid.....

[pdisme]

I think the scissor doors make it a Lamborghini more for the non-owners; they're like oh, that's a Lamborghini, which is why people who don't know the marque go to auto shows and see a Chevy with a body kit and flip up doors and assume it's a Lambo. For people who know the cars, they know it's a Lambo whether they see the doors or not.

[sprite]

I consider the Gallardo a full fledged Lamborghini. They are fun, awesome to drive and sound badass.

[Matt]

I dont understand the whole not a lambo thing. Yes audi owns lambo, but its still a lambo, they're just looking to expand their market into more affordable territories.

[pdisme]

It's a frequent topic on every lambo board I've been on; I think it comes up when Murci/Diablo/Countach drivers want to remind us Gallardo drivers that we have the 'baby bull' and two less cylinders :) But mine has a retractable top dammit!

[Matt]

I think the gallardo is an amazing car. The whos dick is bigger shit is lame.

[pdisme]

I'm waiting for a ride in the Murci roadster; need someone in Tampa to buy one.

[Matt]

I'm waiting for a ride in the Murci roadster; need someone in Tampa to buy one.

Ha, you and me both.

[zzzzdoc]

I thought long and hard about this question. And spoke to a number of people directly at the Factory.

The official answer is that it's 53.6% Lambo. Used to be 54%, but they needed a different supplier for one of the wing nuts.