Sorry, ZZ Top, but despite those three letters clustered together in the name, superleggera does not translate to anything directly relating to a womans stems. Indirectly, though, you could make the argument. In English, Superleggera means super light.
What it means is that this newest Gallardo, like the Ferrari F430 Challenge Stradale, leans out a few pounds and packs on a (very) little bit more muscle, giving the car indeed a touch more leg to stretch.
While European-spec Gallardo Superleggeras are lighter by the equivalent of a portly passenger (220 pounds), cars bound for the U.S. lose a trimmer sidekick and come in only 150 pounds lighter than more pedestrian Gallardos. This is due to our side-impact standards, which mandate that Lamborghini leave the side airbags in the seats. We will still get one-piece carbon fiber sport seats, but with pinhead cushions packed and waiting in the wings. Europeans get four-point harnesses; we make do with plain old three-point belts.
Elsewhere in the interior, carbon fiber covers the center tunnel and the door panels, and anything that was once leather is now Alcantara. The interior door panels are sheets of carbon fiber with an Alcantara pull strap for closing. Very utilitarian and purposeful, but we be horrified if we were paying for it. Stitching color-matched to the exterior adorns the seats and dash, and the same color peeks through a perforated strip of the headliner over each occupants head. Unique gauges look cool on first glance, but on closer inspection might be off the clearance rack at Murrays. Their tiny, swollen text is completely illegible, further compounding the problem we had driving Euro-spec cars with km/h speedometers on American roads. Uncertain of our speed, our default behavior was to assume we were going too slowly, squish the now pedal, and zoom away. Actually, it worked out just fine.
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