Thursday 29th August 2013

Gallardo goes rallying: Time For Tea?

Lamborghini proves its versatility with some unexpected off-piste talent

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Well, the Gallardo body is built by Audi in Neckarsulm and has four-wheel drive. The only incredible thing is that it's taken this long in the 'baby' Lambo's life to realise it might make a good rally car.

The amazing thing? It actually does, no matter how incongruous the sight might be. OK, you might have trouble sneaking a 5.0-litre V10 past WRC scrutineers looking for a 1.6-litre turbo four-cylinder.

From supercars in farm yards to supercars on forest roads, there seems to be a bit of a trend growing here. Who knows, one day someone might actually drive one on a circuit...

See the vid here.

 

 

[MiseryStreak]

Thing is it's not that good a rally car, it would get handed its arse by a real one. Sort out the ground clearance and loose a few hundred kilos, then maybe...

[scorcher]

Stupid boy, not wearing a helmet or a seatbelt. He could hurt himself!

[spydersingh]

Is this not a repost?

[Magic919]

spydersingh said:

Is this not a repost?

Somewhat.

[350Matt]

MiseryStreak said:

Thing is it's not that good a rally car, it would get handed its arse by a real one. Sort out the ground clearance and loose a few hundred kilos, then maybe...

blimey you're aptly named



isn't the point rather that its not disgraced by these conditions? you don't expect very low supercars to be used 'at all ' on these roads let alone moving at a reasonable lick and drifting quite nicley

[exceed]

scorcher said:

Stupid boy, not wearing a helmet or a seatbelt. He could hurt himself!

My thoughts exactly...

Entertaining to a certain extent but does need to be made more rallye.

[iva cosworth]

Come on VAG or whoever,enter one on a rally,somewhere,anywhere and stick Gigi Galli or

another insane Italian behind the wheel....

I'd go a long way to see it.

[countvonc]

He wasn't trying very hard was he?

[KTF]

Its (to me) not really rallying as I would imagine any 4wd car is designed to cope with a road surface like that.

The only issue would be if there were changes in gradient that would cause it to become grounded being so low to the ground but then they picked a nice flat bit of road so thats a non issue.

It also looks like he is wearing a seatbelt to me. Certainly is at 24s.

[monthefish]

Magic919 said:

spydersingh said:

Is this not a repost?

Somewhat.

I hadn't seen it before



Quite cool, but I'd like to see it done again but with a really talented driver behind the wheel and a bit quicker.

[epom]

Nice idea an all that but.....

[OdramaSwimLaden]

countvonc said:

He wasn't trying very hard was he?

Very amateurish at best. If it was a rubbish car I'd be inclined to say what a total waste of my time watching that; it was a Lamborghini, driven poorly by someone who is quite evidently scared of oversteer.

What a total waste of time watching that....

[garypotter]

He is enjoying his car..... or someone elses car !!

I think the Gallardo has aged well, off to the classifieds and dream

[redlinecal]

Driver issues - Where is Chris Harris when you need him?

[MentalRental]

He looks like he's clinging on for dear life and not enjoying it at all

[Ian974]

No idea how they found a forest path that smooth, it looks preferable to the majority of tarmac we have available!

[mwmackenzie]

Porsche used to use the 911 for rallying back in the day, would love to seeone of these propperly kitted out in full rally drag lol... Great effort and 100% for trying but that would be destroyed by a mk2 Escort lol.. Love it though!

[freshmicropig]

Groundhog Day

[Slippydiff]

Old news. 3/10 Must try harder.

[365daytonafan]

iva cosworth said:

Come on VAG or whoever,enter one on a rally,somewhere,anywhere and stick Gigi Galli or

another insane Italian behind the wheel....

I'd go a long way to see it.

Already been done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opeShcVW7EA