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Too bad they didn't get an LP550-2 for the comparo.
The LP560-4 is supposed to be a better performing car than the LP550-2, which was developed more as a hooligan's car. They do complain about the understeer in the Gallardo LP560-4 in the article, though.
Footnotes for one's who don't want to read clunky German to English translation:
Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4:
- 90 Degree V10 traces origins back to early 2000s
- Gallardo spins 2000 rpm higher than the Viper and makes 60 NM more torque than the LFA, but falls behind the LFA and Viper being the heaviest car of the three
- Chassis feels outdated, AWD induces understeer, steering lacks precision, dull steering and dull gearbox
- AWD helps straight line propulsion greatly with traction.
- Dynamically inferior to LFA and Viper
- Engine somewhere between two other extremities of the LFA and Viper. Not as "brutal" and "lazy" as the Viper and not as frantic, high-revving, hyper alert and top rpm focused as the LFA.
- Lacks the technical intellect of the Lexus LFA and the vulgar appearance of the Viper, but combines them better than the other two.
Lexus LFA:
- Lexus' makes at F1 racing car for the road, lightning responses, makes the same 560 HP as the Gallardo that is achieved at a much more lofty rpm of 8700 rpm with the smaller 4.8 L V10.
- 1540 KG (3395 lbs) weight 19 KG (42 lbs) heavier than the Viper despite use of magnesium, carbon fiber, aluminum etc,.
- Brilliant steering, brakes, turns gorgeous, extremely rigid chassis with lots of downforce with the flat underbody.
- Extremely stable and cannot be distracted by cross winds even in test 300+ km/h Autobahn accelerations.
- Brutal gear changes with extreme force exhibiting immediacy, engine howls up to engine speeds where all the other engines have long run out of breath or hit their speed limiter.
- Interior technology and usage of carbon fiber feel extraterrestrial, visual and aural experience make it worth the absurd price of 375,000 Euro.
- The technology, visceral and emotional experience not seen in any Japanese car before.
Viper SRT-10:
- Brutal 840 NM torque, 1521 KG (3353 lbs) weight lightest of the three.
- 8.4 Liter V10 feels antiquated with 2 valves per pot, but does the job with huge displacement.
- Scary power delivery and easily can overwhelm the massive Pirelli Corsa racing slick tires.
- Interior though better than the previous generations still had already wear on leather and quality of materials used in the interior are sub par.
- Helmet like roof, exhaust pipes on the side reminiscent of the older Vipers.
- 8.4 liter displacement spins only up to 6200 rpm that is over 3000 rpm less than the LFA V10 and over 2000 rpm less than the Gallardo.
- Slow and sluggish response on the tachometer to boot, but gives torque spread down low in the rpm range that only turbocharged engines can manage.
- Performance bargain with most horsepower in this group
- Truly a one and only experience (because this test Viper is the only Viper in Germany).
CONCLUSION

‡ Lexus builds a F1 racing romance, SRT creates a monster while Lamborghini is depending completely on subjective opinion of one or the other. With 649 hp and monstrous sound and scary torque delivery is the Viper remain the only ten-cylinder, the full on the Z
LFA and Gallardo are at the top level for hearing and seeing the Viper one in which one passes both
actually. It needs not to be interested in how to get a car or why not. But the story of the hook
ben and Have Not the Viper is so nerve-wracking that we must process it here in few lines sen. Originally, it should have the first date pen flap back in January, but ultimately on pretty good reason fails, that one over there in Detroit itself to alternative date two months
later not only ausgelie- Ever have this three here
will have fert. It takes until late May, when landing two of her in Germany. One is purchased directly from the Dock off, the other is on its way to us - and runs from sheer hurry so in a trailer coupling that even our Photoshopper her face would not again can judge. So it is ultimately due to the patience of the buyer that the way it leads to the goal.
quite a lot to do with the proverbial phenomenon of many ways and this sem a Rome: Whether life gives LFA, Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 or the Viper, which henceforth operates as SRT - they all come at the end with ten cylinders out , each of the three, however, passes differently there. Dodge discovered the V10 when you are looking for still more displacement with eight- cylinder internal Magnum engines.
Front- and rear bear their air shafts querverstrebt since mini lifting. The ride has an unsophisticated, but competent feel to it, ceramics there are optional; new wheel design
The 5.2-liter spreads his two cylinder banks in the 90-degree angle on each others. He turns to eight, which he tends towards conceptual LFA
The latest craze is the Gallardo-in not nere despite more carbon inlays
longer coming; Lexus builds him as a bridge to Formula 1, and at Lamborghini he seems to lead to a dead end until outer di contributes with a 90-degree V8 that suitable locating base.
Since 2003, he revived the Gallardo now, growing in him from initially 4961 to 5204 cubic zoom and will - if he moves shortly in the successor - for at the heart in its various power levels more than ten different versions
have been. In a world of downsizing rush it stands for resistance loading, survived even the attacks of the Euro standards, making it become something like the fixed stars in the universe of V10, whose extremes are the engines of LFA and Viper.
Essentially, it is with them to precisely the same thing: fuel is switched injected, compressed, ignited and taken away. In a little, but quickly, in the other more, but GE
mächlicher. That means: The 4.8-liter of the Lexus has to run 8700 tours for its 560 hp, the Dodge trots until 6200 and has, thanks to 8.4 Li- count already 649 hp packed. They are the character heads of the V10 concept - completely opposite, fascinating and in their respective roles, perhaps a bit like Lee and Willis, which is not much more than connecting the Bruce.
The Viper created in 1992 out of necessity, a hemorrhaging brand again
of life into. To show the Lexus 2010, only for the pleasure that you can more than golden emblems and hybrid. But while the Ami just up rises for the third time, the days of the LFA are counted at his birth. It is 14 December 2012, when the last of the 500 copies leaves the factory. A predecessor did not exist, a successor will not give it. On Profit occurs him rofit despite the absurd price occurs is 375,000 Euros, but, vain he is not, and yet he puts on his appearance the greatest value. Front passes an inconspicuous lip the wind exactly along the underbody, departures th stow the monumental tail unit and a diffuser tons of output, while the 8.5 square meters between redirect the air as needed or in eyes in itself. Full little form, all function. comparison Despite the relative peak zen bank angle of 72 degrees
is creeping up the engine under the dashboard, the gearbox sequential working to trans axle from behind to what
together a uniform distribution of its 1540 kilos results. Some Critics accuse him that he in spite of the enormous effort that he described with its carbon-fiber body
drives, nothing can really better than a rather ordinary GT-R; the fans however find him next to the attraction of technology and visceral emotion as it almost never comes from Japan.
Especially inside the 1.2 meter flat aerodynamic Federal galows the love discharges to detail that the design has verknei- fen. Carbon contrasted with leather seats in red and intrusive anodized real metal, the
Foot could see the little dance on the pedals in the mirror, while the central tachometer depending on driving mode silently when pops up in the HD display, the framed him, one of the countless menus. Everything looks a bit extraterrestrial and been lifted, turns out to keystroke but as downright terrifying real. When V10 starts to scream hysterically, it makes everything else stop.
Takes a few seconds warm as the loud idle becomes more socially acceptable. In the details you realize how the whole racing theory to practice, hear the clicking and scraping of gear mechanism, feeling the enormous rigidity in the chassis and bodywork when the liquid steering pulls him tightly in corners, and each time - to put it mildly - shocked by brutally how the ramming of the six gears extreme force that has to be with urgency. Up to its level LFA remains very sports car responds like lightning, turns gorgeous and meticulously accelerates. Additionally, however, it shows how much more he is. Then, when the bright shriek turns into a blood curdling howl, the V10 still rotating when any other current production engine has long run out of breath and has long hit the limiter. Its aerodynamics so sucks him on the ground that make it so stable that nothing can distract it even in our Autobahn runs to over 300 km/h- then it can easily be understood as meaning, why the whole formula 1 madness for parent brand Toyota may have paid off, without a single win out jumped.
Even the Lamborghini fascinated; grotesque is that an exposed he expects which is usually even in the White Flash, appears here as normal. He lacks the technical intellect of the LFA, the vulgar appearance of the SRT, and yet he is more perfect than the two cars together. The operating concept is plugged from the Audi modular together, the interiors with alcantara and Carbon fiber simple but worth seeing and his age something you meantime though observes him, but he must be quiet pride in a world in the even A-class want to be ju- gendlich. The Lamborghini's steering lacks the precision, somewhat dull brake pedal and the gear change,
the contract him the drive train that is very muscular, but a bit rustic as the LFA. In curves of all-wheel drive pushes him repeatedly into understeer, straight he stressed his energy into propulsion. In a flash, continuous and elec- trisierend, especially if the acoustics increases just before four in imperious tubes and then is always infernal. Its tachometer turns 2000 rpm higher than the SRT, presses 60 Newton meters torque fatter than the LFA, remain - also because of the unhealthier weight - it remains just behind the two. Increase the transmission modes Sport and Corsa, the intensity with which he the transition sequences
can initiate simultaneously loosen the ESP, but also in order not alter the fact that he is the civilized most of the three savages.
Especially the Viper instills a demand for respect. For everywhere the horror storys experienced out of control- are conspirators who, on the driving behavior addressed, happy times roll up their shirt and show where they already been bitten everywhere the are. As the first of its kind a number three takes but climb in fear. Not only do they now camouflages the formerly so cheap interior with optional leather, but mainly because of an inconspicuous label called ESC, with the lethal injection is now electronically secured. Its final death blow was the lack of ESC, in order to protect the occupants applies's more probably.
Something great effort as the vinyl via any case still what seems lacklustre.
It is on the wide side, by as usual by the sills runs the exhaust system. Data behind the space is larger than the corresponding feeling. The domed roof runs like a helmet far to his face, the front hood bulges as hills pilot visor, while the cockpit facade comes rüber- almost a little too blue-collar, considering what's behind it. Old rule: do not look, just touch. is steered with the upper arms; Switch works best when one pulls the short lever with brute force through the streets; beside the taut, perfectly shaped Sabelt- seats acts as a Corvette already
pretty worn-out. Pressing the start button can then also every other sports cars of the world look tame. It takes a while until the starter motor gets jostled the forged crankshaft, the V10 burps short but enormously from the depths of its space out to afterwards to grunt the pace of idling in front of him.
No question, he is more antiquated than the other. Too embarrassed he did not seem so: Two valves per pot enough for him fen instead of four camshafts in the cylinder- he wears a single centrally located in the abdomen, and although the story is true, that his basic motor completely
earlier anschaffte in trucks, it integrates him now so skillfully that his weight is placed on absolutely equal parts on the axes. 1521 kilos weighs the Viper regularly, 26 saves the Track package, which they - magnesium, aluminum and carbon fiber goodness - even a brief
is lighter even than the Lexus. Corsa Pirelli Oversized slick racing tires offer the grip, the launch control rüpelt a desired exceedingly proper progress, select one rend themselves pondering is whether the Impressive on urgewalti-
gen boost Now the torque is as such or its totally natural surface formation. No turbo no compressors, only 8382 cubic bik, from which it draws 814 Newtonme- ter. The force needs just to grow, but overgrown a then completely. The animated tachometer rotates in slow motion, the digital speedometer whets like crazy. When accelerating, it raises the whole snout, change load detonate the faulty detonator such by the Sidepipes addition that indoors - not a metaphor - shakes the floor.
Zahmer like the Viper have become tame it is not certainly. Still you have to unleash it with proper thought, there is still a latent danger that one of the kick motor unconscious proposes, still have to fit like hell up, that a non-peak escapes the tail. In short, life Lexus and Lamborghini are quickly even with tender treatment, the performance of the Viper must still be conquered. A one-off experience by the way - if only because it is the only in Germany currently.
CONCLUSION

‡ Lexus builds a F1 racing romance, SRT creates a monster while Lamborghini is depending completely on subjective opinion of one or the other. With 649 hp and monstrous sound and scary torque delivery is the Viper remain the only ten-cylinder, the full on the Z