I have been thinking of buying a Gallardo and so while I was in Vegas recently I rented one for the day. I have to say, I was really not impressed at all with the acceleration. The slowest of my cars, my SL63, could easily outrun this lam. The handling was really sweet though.

It was an 07 and it had 40k miles on it, and it was a rental, meaning everyone who ever drove probably put the pedal to the floor. Still though, I thought it was going to be a lot faster.

 

dunno man. i drove a modded 996TT and the gallardo is about as fast.

 

Just takes a visit to underground racing to fix that problem.

 

Yea, having driven 1400 whp+ cars I would agree...stock they are slow...after visiting UGR, not so much!

Another deceiving part of the G is that the gearing (atleast on my 05 6-speed) is tall...1st is good to 60, 2nd good to over 90...

Peter

 

My brain can't process these words...

 

That's odd it might just be a used and abused rental..

 

dont buy one. problem solved

 

Thats kind of what I was thinking.

 

if i owned a rental company i would put a throttle position limiter and speed limiter on it so inexperienced weekend warriors are less likely to screw it up.

 

This is kind of what I was thinking... I've had these on damn Hyundai Tiburons, much less a Lamborghini.

 

does not compute?!? teehee.... UGR saves lives

 

 

Maybe that's it. That would make sense.

FWIW
I spoke with a guy who used to work in the exotic car rrental business and he said it was a scam in that these different companies all advertise the same cars. They all work off a pool of cars. And the cars get driven the cr@p out of them.

 

I have an '07 Gallardo and in stock form it is a turd. A stock Z06 will run away from it. Much different car once it is TT'd though.

 

The Gallardo in stock form is pretty slow but I'm not sure if it's as slow as an SL63. They might have limited the acceleration as someone pointed out earlier or it's just shot from the abuse.