Hanz's Blog: Nature's Beauty with Man's Beast

Bumping into a Gallardo is already a huge stroke of luck for me, but one of those rare units? Man, jackpot! Now from the outside, it may look like the usual LP560-4, with those unmistakable slim and sleek headlights and the jet-like air intakes that has the ability to suck even a bulldog in it.

Personally loving this stance.

But with a little more attention to the detail on its small badge located near to the rear wheels, you’ll realize that it has less 10 horses, and not all wheel drive?

550 horses to play with! But only two legs to pin 'em to the ground?

Than that, must be the limited-edition, specially tribute (for Lamborghini’s veteran test driver Valentino Balboni) Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Balboni. With only 250 units world wide and a rear-wheel configuration, this Gallardo, I’m telling you, is really one of a kind.

But what kept me thinking though, I had never heard or even seen any of the Balboni units of being painted purely white. All of those I heard of had that special and distinctive stripe running through the centre-top of the car, from the front hood straight to the rear engine bay.

Look ma! No Stripes!

But there ain’t any over here! But then, what does this badge tells us? It has 550 horses to gallop around and the power only goes to two wheels, which I could bet on my next salary that Lamborghini isn’t crazy enough to make it going to the front wheels.

Anyways, let’s put all those tech-reference-black and white- specification for a while and just feast our eyes on this majestically crafted German-engineered road beast…