I ran a Gallardo here in Atlanta a few months back. My only power mod is my exhaust. He had 2 people in the car, I just had myself and my heavy, 19" HREs. I have a confirmed trap of over 116mph on an 88' day after 4 runs. I am sure that I could have done better had I had stock wheels and/or had I let the car cool down some more (heat soak is a *****).

I slowly walked away from the Gallardo on two tries from about 60mph rolls. Take that for what it's worth. Both cars were rather close in my opinion. I truly believe that an X-50 should slightly pull away, stock for stock with both drivers being equal.

 

The performance of the Gallardo is well documented when the clutch is good. It is slower than an X50:

C/D TEST RESULTS (for Gallardo):

ACCELERATION Seconds
Zero to 30 mph 1.8
40 mph 2.5
50 mph 3.3
60 mph 4.1
70 mph 5.2
80 mph 6.3
90 mph 7.8
100 mph 9.2
110 mph 10.7
120 mph 12.9
130 mph 15.0
140 mph 17.6
150 mph 21.4
160 mph 25.5
Street start, 5–60 mph 4.6
Top-gear acceleration, 30–50 mph 4.0
50–70 mph 6.2
Standing 1/4-mile 12.4 sec @ 118 mph
Top speed (drag limited) 191 mph

BRAKING
70–0 mph @ impending lockup 158 ft

HANDLING
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad 1.00 g
Understeer minimal

 

Bill go back to playing with your high powered 360cs. You conveniently forgot to post when i offered to meet you today.

Here is video of a gallardo run from 0-186mph:
http://rapidshare.de/files/6897347/Video007.3gp.html

According to this guy his times were:
0-60mph 3.87
0-100mph 7,95
0-125mph 11,70
0-150mph 17,10
0-180mph 28,40
0-186mph 31.50

 

The Gallardo's tested by Motor Trend and Car and Driver were six speeds.

The times I gave you above were for the the six speed manual transmissions and the curb weight for these cars was 3560 -3565 lbs.

 

I can't view the video, but I know a Gallardo cant run a 0-150 in 17 secs because there are only a few cars that can do that, and all of them trap over 125 mph and have 550+ bhp

 

Allan, you're the Web master. Sorry I'm not here as much as you.

PM me with your private contact info when you want to meet. I prefer a smaller audience.

BTW, here's the Gallardo's performance from R&T magazine:

 

BTW, the 60-130 MPH time on the Gallardo is about 11 seconds. This is about the same as the other "ordinary" cars (e.g., Viper, CS, 993 TT, 996 TT, etc). The Ruf and Protomotive Turbo cars, Enzo and CGT do this in under 8 seconds.

 

I don't know who has a worse reputation for providing times you can rely on...

 

After couple runs with my stage 2 TT, my friend's stock TT, my brother's Gallardo. I will say the G is abit faster than a stock TT at hight speed. A stock X50 TT will be very similar to the G since the K24 power will come at high end. So I will say is a neck to neck run.

The G at the video is a manual car and we have switch driver to run and have same result. So I will say the result is a true owner reports!

We're going to have a new M5 to test out with our cars shortly. I will let you guys update with video

 

I recently test drove (twice) a new Gallardo SE (which has 520 HP and lower gearing), and it felt very fast. It didn't feel any slower than my F430. It had a tremendous amount of torque.

The SE and 2006+ models will have the performance bump. It is supposedly 3.8 sec 0-60. A guy on lambo-power.com reportedly measured 0-100 of about 8 sec. lambo-power.com

 

raygr,

In terms of feel, how does the Gallardo SE compare to your CGT during short acceleration blasts? TIA

 

The Gallardo felt like a muscle-car to me; with kind of a heavy feel, and a heavier rotating mass. The CGT feels lighter, revs up very fast, and the throttle acts almost like a "speed control"; you just push down on the gas and you instantly go faster, with very little time for acceleration in between!

Btw, the F430 also felt lighter than the Gallardo. The F430 motor revs faster too. But acceleration is not as intense as the CGT.

 

The Gallardo´s speedometer is way off. An Italian car magazine called Automobilismo tested it and measured a true speed of 309 km/h at an indicated 331 km/h.

 

I believe it.

 

Spot-on. I beat a Gallardo with my heavy (4WD and 6 speed) ex- 964 3.6T and about 460hp. That same 3.6T did the 60-130mph in 10 seconds.
One second is a very substantial difference.