This year Italy is celebrating 150 years since its unification, an event that a Italian symbol like Lamborghini couldn't ignore. To honor the event, the super car maker will build a special edition of the Gallardo called the Tricolore. The name pays tribute to the Italian flag, which decorates the car in the form of a three-colored stripe that stretches across the hood, the driver's seat and the roof in a way that reminds of the LP550-2 Valentino Balboni edition.
Other than the green, white and red stripe, the Gallardo Tricolore also sports carbon-fiber mirror caps and a white paint. “To celebrate the 150 years of Italian unity we felt that it was appropriate to propose a tri-color livery for our most succesful model, the Lamborghini Gallardo,” said the company's CEO, Stephan Winkelmann. “With the Lamborghini Gallardo Tricolore we give a further impulse to the development of the 'Made in Italy' label in the world.”
The car will be officially introduced on March 16 in Turin, at an exhibition dedicated to the Italian state anniversary. For the time being, Lamborghini offered no technical details of the special edition model and has yet to announce the number of cars it plans to build, though our bet would go to 150.
By Dan Mihalascu
Sources: Quattroruote , Omniauto
5 Comments:
Nice colors.
Hot accent colors - viva Italia!
Good thing they didn't use "150" in the name. Ford'd be terribly worried that it might again lose clients over this and would have to take some legal actions to prevent it. I mean, there's such a thin line between F-150 pick-up truck and a Formula 1 racing car or such Lambo, huh? It's easy not to distinguish them. Just imagine some farmer from Alabama wondering what pick-up truck to choose from such a wide market of them in the US. Then he sees Ferrari's Formula 1 racing car called "F150" just like the most popular truck in his country. Since he's got no idea what the F1 actually is, and being an Alabama farmer he doesn't know of the existence of something like Ferrari, not even mentioning Lambo in this case, he'd be confused: Ford or Furarri, oh, sorry - Ferrari? And he'd go for Ferrari, obviously. And Ford would lose its precious client. Bad for it, thank God it prevented this from happening. Ford might even go bankrupt because of that. Owhhhhh.
cant believe im saying this...but it looks boring/dated?
Yup, you're right. Maybe not boring, but kind of dated. Ferrari F430 had the same problem.
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