Lamborghini Gallardo

This is the catalogue record of the Lamborghini Gallardo, one of 96 models Lamborghini has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2003. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Lamborghini Gallardo properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mazda Mazda3, the Bentley Bentley Continental GT, the Mazda Mazda RX-8 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lamborghini Gallardo reads like this: the record lists its engine as 5.0 L Lamborghini V10 / Lamborghini even firing V10 engine / V10 (pre-facelift) / 5.2 L Lamborghini CEH odd firing V10 (facelift); kerb weight is recorded at LP 560-4: 3310 lb / Gallardo coupé: 3520 lb / Spyder: 3820 lb / Superleggera: 3434 lb / LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni: 3410 lb / LP 570-4 Superleggera: 3350 lb; top speed is given as 320 km/h; drive goes through 6-speed Graziano manual / 6-speed e-gear Graziano automated manual; the layout is Longitudinal engine / Longitudinal, Mid-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / mid-engine, all-wheel-drive (Gallardo 5.0, LP 560-4 & LP 570-4) / Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 14,022 units, which makes it a low-volume car in industry terms.

Its place in the Lamborghini story

Within Lamborghini's own catalogue the Lamborghini Gallardo sits alongside the Lamborghini Calà (1995), the Lamborghini Marco Polo, the Lambo 291, the Lamborghini 350 GT. The record names the Lamborghini Jalpa as its predecessor and the Lamborghini Huracán as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Fabrizio Giugiaro at Italdesign (initial design) / Luc Donckerwolke (final design) / Walter de Silva (facelift). Assembly is recorded at Italy: Sant'Agata Bolognese.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Lamborghini Gallardo was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.