With all that in perspective, there's only one place in India where you can truly enjoy the true characteristics of the Gallardo LP 560-4's existence - on a race track like the Madras Motor Sports Club's circuit in Chennai, and that?s exactly where we tamed this bull. Dabbing the right foot to hear the massive V10 work its grand opera is enough to intimidate you into respecting the car. And if that's not enough, the slow rocking of the car under the influence of 540 Nm of torque will surely have your hair standing on the back of your neck - and that's even before you let go of the brakes and start rolling forward. Rolling slowly out of the narrow pitlane onto the track just after Turn 1 has never been a better experience as you get pinned all the way to the back of your seat when you floor the LP 560-4s throttle, all the way to the stop if you have the courage to! With a 0-100 km/h time of 3.7 seconds, the car accelerates hard and crosses double that figure in just 11.8 seconds - from standstill! It will keep accelerating and touch a top whack of a whopping 325 km/h!
With that kind of stupendous acceleration, corners keep coming at you at the MMSC circuit as if the track didn't have any straights at all, but thanks to the large 365mm discs up front and 356 mm ones at the rear gripped on tight by power vacuum, aluminium alloy calipers, the Gallardo slows right down in time for you to gently dip into the corner without any worry at all. The Pirelli Pzero Corsa rubber specially fitted on the cars for the track outing take care of the rest as the LP 560-4 brushes the apex and its nose starts rising again under acceleration all the way to the next braking point. With all that technology coming together in pure symphonic synchronisation, the Gallardo delivers a driving experience like no other. And that was only in the Sport mode! Slot the car into its Corsa mode and the differential switches to a 80:20 torque split between the front and rear wheels, the gear shifts get even slicker and the traction control kicks in even later if things start going hairy. That?s when you take another quick lap of the track, slow down for the pit lane entry, come to a stop and step out of the plush interiors with your head reeling, your heart rate high up to near-critical levels and your legs shaking with sheer delight. Just when you thought you had finally tamed the Bull, the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 has had the last laugh.
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