Talk:Lamborghini Gallardo

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Contents 1 Designer 2 Pronounciation 3 Image:Lamborghini Gallardo with engine.jpg 4 Gallardo pronounciation. 5 Price 6 Popular culture 7 External Link 8 Class debate

[edit] Designer

Articles such as http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/Gallardo/index.html, credit the younger Giugiaro (Fabrizio) as the designer of the Gallardo. Some other articles, http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupe/112_0310_2004_lamborghini_gallardo/, say the design was an ItalDesign-Giugiaro/Luc Donckerwolke collaboration. Just looking for some feedback. So far it looks like Lamborghini credits ItalDesign-Giugiaro for the design.

I think it would be accurate to credit ItalDesign for the style and leave it at that. Barring a definitive statement from one of the Giugiaros, this may never be resolved. Forty years after the Miura, people are still arguing about whether the car is really a Guigiaro or Gandini design, and there was much speculation about the true designer of the ItalDesign-Volkwagen W12 concept (officially a Fabrizio design) when it debuted. The design process could very well allow for Donckerwolke and both of the Giugiaros to have made contributions. About all that can be said with certainty about the Gallardo is that the Giugiaros did "most" of the work. Audi seems to have been less inclined to micromanage this project than they were with the Murcielago, which was credited entirely to Donckerwolke. In all likelyhood, the Giugiaros produced a proposal and Audi merely adapted it to suit their corporate tastes- a la Chrysler and the Diablo.

OK, dudes, they REALLY need to make a Gallardo model with scissor doors; the Murcielago, Countach, and Diablo got 'em, so why not the Gallardo?

[edit] Pronounciation

Question for Italian speakers only: how do you pronounce Lamborghini? Is it lambor-gee-ni or lambor-gui-ni? I've had some debates over this with friends.

[edit] Image:Lamborghini Gallardo with engine.jpg

I find the addition of this picture somewhat strange... The user who added it to this page gives the following desciption: "Lamborghini V12 engine, with the Gallardo Spyder in the background".

1. As far as I know the Gallardo has a V10 engine, not a V12. Is this a typo or what?
2. The car next to the engine looks like the Murcielago, not the Gallardo.
3. The only Gallardo I see in the picture is the other white car partly hidden by the woman on the left.

Unless I'm missing some points and someone can explain the inconsistency I'll revert to the old pic in a few days. Berserker79 11:52, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

My mistake, that is indeed a Murcielago Roadster (& its V12), not a Gallardo Spyder. I'll move it to the other article. ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 11:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for clearing the issue, I was perplexed by the apparent inconsistency, but not 100% sure to remove/move myself the picture. Thanks, Berserker79 06:59, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gallardo pronounciation.

I removed the trivia about Akon mis-pronounciation, since it is incorrect. Standard Spanish pronunciation of the word is WITH L, not with a "y". nihil 23:06, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

By the way guys, NIHIL is AKON. He's just trying to cover up his stupidity.

I had this sudden urge to prove NIHIL wrong. So I did a simple search on google for the correct pronunciation for the word "gallardo". According to the official spanish-english pronunciator for the American Heritage Spanish-English Dictionary, the two "l"s are in fact pronunciated as a "y". To hear a sample go to the following website and click the speakerphone beside the word http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/spanish/gallardo.

Ok, so why is the mispronunciation not mentioned in the article? I think it should be noted.

• WOW! That's cool.... from a Brazilian engineering student with spanish family line I have been promoted to a Senegalese rapper! :D

You should look better, the pronunciation of LL in Spanish IS different from country to country, you know? For some reason, Mexico is not the only country that speaks Spanish! The standard pronuciation of Gallardo in Castillian Spanish is Gah-LAR-do. Since you had the urge and did cite your sources, I will kindly do the same: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A737723

Yours, André Zamorano Vitorelli a.k.a. nihil 12:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Gallardo is NEVER pronounced Gah-LAR-do in Spanish. Greetings from Spain. Will.

• So how come my family in Granada does say all "LL" words with L and not "y" (just as in "Paella")? nihil 20:07, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Now that's quite interesting. I've recently seen some show on Discovery or something, including an interview with Luc Donckerwolke, the designer of the Murcielago, and I'm pretty sure he used the 'gah-yar-do' pronounciation. --Zahn 04:12, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, therefore I'm resuming the trivia --Zahn 15:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• As far as I know, being a designer does not make one a language authority... even if most of the world says "ga-yar-do" it does NOT make "Ga-lar-do" a mispronunciation. nihil 01:22, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, Ok... I stand corrected. I just talked to them and the LL Castillian is different from /L/ indeed, it's just not only the /y'/ the arcticle states, but not what I thought it was, there is a small "i" in it after the /L/, so, in any case, Akon is actually missing it. Now cheer up everybody. But I'm still no Senegalese rapper! :P nihil 20:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Just for the record, someone should change it to IPA format.

ManicParroT 08:46, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Price

According to MSN Autos (http://autos.msn.com/research/vip/overview.aspx?year=2006&make=Lamborghini&model=Gallardo) the price of the Gallardo is $175,000.. the article says it's 165k. I'm going to change it to 175k, but if anyone finds a more accurate source (like directly from the company lamborghini) that gives a different price, feel free to change it.

[edit] Popular culture

US Rapper AKON repeatedly mentions the Lamborghini Gallardo in the lyrics of his most recent worldwide hit 'Smack That'.

So? --Vossanova ^o< 19:48, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Link

Hi i have currently made a new exotic car site here. I was wanting to add the relevant pages to relevant wiki pages and wondering if thats ok to do so? Please let me know.

Thanks

Richard

It's best you don't, even though it's tempting. See the guidelines at WP:EL. Only official sites and reliable sources from the media should be linked. Plus, it would look like self-promotion, which is a conflict of interest. --Vossanova ^o< 19:49, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Class debate

I feel that the gallardo does not meet the standards of being called a "supercar" due to the massive performance achievments required of the title. yes, the gallardo is an exotic (that most of us would enjoy having in our garage), however, it really doesn't perform very much beyond today's popular sports cars. the gallardo is a tad more nimble than most supercars, designed for slower traffic and whatnot rather than accelerating quickly.

if anybody agrees with this, please comment and or change the class ranking on the wiki.

Thanks, Cpgeek

It's still exclusive enough to be called a supercar. I don't think you'll find many people willing to change its classification. Also, can everybody please start signing their entries here? Four tildes - ~~~~. It's not hard. --Vossanova ^o< 19:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)