Specs: 2010 Gallardo LP 550 2 Valentino Balboni . LAMBORGHINI pictures

The idealisation chronicle of a Gallardo, Lamborghini‘s most successful indication of all time – overall, some-more than 9,000 units of a indication operation have already been constructed – boasts not usually a own sold pattern and disdainful equipment, though a record is singular too, as indicated by a indication badge: a 550 stands for a power outlay in hp and a 2 is for rear wheel drive.

For multiform decades, Valentino Balboni has had a graphic shift on a impression of a super sports car spirit a pointer of a bull. With his fine-tuning and contrast work, he has helped to figure most automotive legends, from a Lamborghini Miura of a 60s by to a stream Gallardo and Murciélago models. Balboni was hired in 1967 by company owner Ferruccio Lamborghini himself. From early on, it was clear that a immature Balboni had a special feel for cars, that most supportive of all instincts that connects to a ‘life blood’ of an car and defines a essence of a test driver.

“A Lamborghini contingency regularly mix a pointing of a competition car with a trustworthiness of a great friend,” says Balboni. Since 1973, he has sat at a wheel of each antecedent built by a brand, and even most prolongation cars have upheld by his hands prior to being delivered to their customers. This has incited Balboni in to a single of a most critical member of a brand, with an superb repute and standing between a brand’s fans and business worldwide.

Limited to 250 units
After over 40 years with Lamborghini, Balboni is right away strictly retired. Yet, Valentino Balboni continues to transport to most countries around a world as an envoy of a brand.
The special exclusivity of a Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni is on trial – it is singular to 250 units.

Light-footed nonetheless intensely safe
With this idealisation chronicle of a Gallardo, Lamborghini is for a long-standing test motorist in a really special way. The LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni was recognised in line with his own thinking, and it meets most customers’ requests for a indication with a singular character, that offers a really special kind of active pushing fun. The Balboni indication is a usually stream Lamborghini that delivers a power to a highway around a rear wheels alone.

Rear wheel drive has a special interest to those sports car drivers who suffer a sold pushing style. Thanks to a uncommonly absolute V10 driveline, tranquil oversteer is no complaint – of course regularly to a border tangible by a motorist – since polished highway manners and ideally tuned benefit systems meant that a Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni is an unusually protected sports car to drive.

Driving fun with singular character
In sequence to figure this singular impression that combines pushing fun and safety, a engineers at Sant’Agata Bolognese have incorporated endless modifications in to a LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni. It was not simply a subject of relocating a transmission to a rear axle, a car had to be practiced and tuned in each component of a pushing dynamics. This includes springs, dampers, stabilisers and even a tyres. The aerodynamics were additionally practiced to take comment of a shift to a power flow.

The rear spindle differential, with a 45 percent singular slip, was additionally redeveloped, as was a calibration of a e-gear transmission. One poignant indicate was a adjustments done to a ESP system. While a customary module is focused on tall stability, a CORSA module permits larger drift angles, to illustrate enabling drivers to suffer a dynamics of a LP 550-2 to their full extent.

Outstanding opening is guaranteed
Adjustments have additionally been done to a really heart of a Gallardo, a 5.2 litre ten-cylinder: a undiluted singularity of hi-revving pleasure, pulling power, a all a time generous spirit and a absolute harmony played in all keys. In a Valentino Balboni, a compress and lightweight power section generates 405 kW (550 hp). At a dry weight of usually 1,380 kilograms, this guarantees superb performance: a LP 550-2 is catapulted from 0 to 100 km/h (0-62mph) in a monumental 3.9 seconds, whilst a tip speed of 320 km/h (199 mph) guarantees a place between a idealisation in super sports cars.

Powerful magnificence in a sold design
The Valentino Balboni is not usually singular in conditions of a technology: a pattern and apparatus strengthen a exclusivity. Its classical sporting impression is emphasised by a colour frame in white and bullion using from a front row over a roof tiles and tools of a engine cover all a approach to a rear spoiler, with impulse from a classical sports cars from a ‘70s. This colour diagnosis underscores a absolute magnificence of a Gallardo and emphasises a singular Lamborghini pattern DNA. The Special Edition is accessible in 8 colours, from Bianco Monocerus by to Verde Ithaca, or Arancio Borealis to Nero Noctis. The Scorpius wheels keep their dim grey finish, whilst a brake callipers come in black, orange or yellow, depending on a extraneous paint finish.

Classic sporting demeanour for a interior, too
The evil colour multiple is steady in a interior. The simple colour of a full tanned hide upholstery is black. Both seats, however, feature a colour frame in white. The centre console is utterly upholstered in Polar white tanned hide to emanate a absolute accent. A pinned token next a left side window bears a signature of Valentino Balboni and a prolongation series of a car.

The exclusivity of a Valentino Balboni is protracted serve by a endless equipment. Alongside multiform new tanned hide features in a interior, there is additionally a pure engine cover, a rear view camera, a navigation complement with Bluetooth and a light complement for a front spindle that creates it simpler to drive over obstacles. In serve to a endless customary equipment, a list of serve options is accessible together with e-gear transmission and CO ceramic brakes.