Re: F430 Vs Gallardo Road Test & Pics
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Ferrari F430 against Lamborghini Gallardo
Two small Italians
Ferrari against Lambo: a duel such as inter against AC Milan, like Ramazotti against Averna. The fire-new F430-Achtzylinder with each quantity of F1-Technik of board meets the Gallardo with ten cylinders and four-wheel drive.
No! We do not tell it now, old history of the rivalry between the proud Enzo and the still prouder Ferruccio, which are excavated normally whenever a Ferrari is compared with a Lamborghini. Only as much: Without the Commendatore from Maranello there would not be Lamborghini at all. Today is everything different. Ferrari belongs to Fiat, Lamborghini to AUDI? and Porsche builds jeeps. 2004 are for personal Zwist between heads of the company no more place. Unfortunately. Explosive remained.
Explosive, which lets the old rivalry inflame again and again on the new. It is those always same question: Who builds the better sports cars? Ferrari or Lamborghini? F430 or Gallardo ? A question, which as thunder-resound in the area floats and from such a philosophical consequence is that cool logic fails. The answer falls after several bottles heavy Barolos more easily than after a comparison travel. We try nevertheless to remain sober. Already the sight makes taken away. Much Hochprozentigeres does not have to offer the HP world. 612 , 575M , Murciélago is stronger? the two small Italians are sportier.
Vordergruendig similarly hides itself under the aluminum bodies different ideas. Is completely again designed in the Ferrari of the 90-Grad-V8, on which, differently than in the predecessor 360 Modena are installed for two four instead of five-valve cylinder heads. The crank case is based on the current Maserati Achtzylinder . 465 Nm and 490 HP do not let any doubts arise that the 4,3-Liter-Treibsatz is a genuine piece of splendour.
One starts with a red button at the steering wheel. While stationary the machine grummelt briefly like the Aetna before the eruption, and with a light gas impact it already breaks spectacularly from it: Malicious fauchend it bites too. With full force the Pranke of the raubtiers meets the back of the driver. The thrust is brachial. Only when 8500 revolutions the speed limiter terminates the propulsion. The force development is still more brutally, still more spontaneous and still more fascinating than "only" with 400 HP strong predecessor.
Of 360, which the F430 replaces, he takes over only doors, roof and hoods. 70 per cent of the Mittelmotor Coupés are new. Also before Maranello the Retrowelle does not make for stop. So Pininfarina arranged the front following the shark fish muzzle Ferrari 156, the Formel-1-Weltmeisterwagens of 1961. The air scoops in the tail quote the Ferrari 250LM, with which yokes Rindt 1965 won the 24 hours of Le Mans.
Naturally the two-seater in the internal wind tunnel had to prove itself. There slit mirror owners, which lead cooling air into the rear inlets, developed for front spoiler including disguised Unterboden as well as the tail diffuser. The aerodynamic measures produce maximally 280 Kilos drift and make more possible than 315km/h. With this number it exceeds one of the most important defaults in the work statement and is faster than the Gallardo. That brings it on only 309 km/h and is with the Null-auf-100 keeps in track 0.2 seconds more slowly. Thereby is not it which Ferruccio wanted to always be: better than Ferrari.
Since Lamborghini belongs to AUDI, goes the eternal second still more consistently own ways. The Gallardo is surely the best Lambo of all times. Amazingly, as well the Italo icon learned German. The cockpit speaks Bavarian. Ignition keys, air conditioning system, displays and operation originate unmistakably from Ingolstadt. Mark-typical characteristics like sharp edged body and passenger space lying far in front AUDI left to the foster child. In the comparison to the Ferrari the overview in the Gallardo is however catastrophic. High tail, flat roof and thick A-columns block the view in all directions.
No button; the bull starts conventionally by key revolution. Brightly the starter sings loose. Only after an eternal second the five-litre starts. As a hochkaraetiges schmuckstueck is the ten-cylinder under a windowpane, which is offered against 4060 euro surcharge. An absolute must; because one must see the 500-PS-Aggregat. Achievement and number of cylinders of the Gallardo are more near because of the formula 1 than those Ferrari. But more puristic the F430 drives itself.
The reason for it lies in the propulsion principle. With the Lambo the rear wheels do not only push the car forward, but on griffigem underground a Viskokupplung leads 30 per cent of the strength to the front axle. Up to the frontier this interpretation provides for a sensationally neutral handling. Then however the permanent all-wheel drive reveals its disadvantages. If the detention border is reached, the flounder shows a lowest of you tendency despite tail-stressed kraftverteilung. That makes it controllable and safe. But for a supersports car such inclinations are actually not desired. The system has advantages meanwhile on wet or snow-covered road. Here the driving power is distributed so optimally between the four wheels that the Gallardo always reaches the optimum at traction. Thus the Lambo is a good complete yearly car, for which there are even particularly developed winter tires.
Technical data Lamborghini Gallardo: V10-Mittelmotor, lengthwise before the rear axle? four valves for each cylinders? four obenliegende cam shafts? Capacity 4961 cm3? Achievement 368 KW (500 HP) with 7800/min? max. torque of 510 Newtonmeters with 4500/min? permanent all-wheel drive? automated six-course transmission? Independent suspension? ESP ? two electronic check differentials? ventilated disc brakes? Length/width/height 4300/1900/1165 mm? Wheel base 2560 mm? Level of fuel in the tank of 90 litres? Unloaded weight 1640 Kilos? Acceleration 0?100 km/h in 4.2 seconds? 1000 meters in 22.3 seconds? Maximum speed 309 km/h? Price starting from 139.200 euro
Such options are not with Ferrari topic. "our customers drive not in the snow", say Amedeo Felisa, technique boss for road cars in Maranello. "the renouncement of all wheel saves approximately 70 Kilos." Nevertheless: The Lambo offensive forces Ferrari to rigging. The remedy of the red ones is called electronics differential and from the formula 1 was adapted. Hydraulics steers two clutches in the drive shafts, which function as a barrier. The force river is variert depending upon guidance angle, position of the gas pedal, transverse acceleration and wheel number of revolutions between rigid Durchtrieb and force delivery on only one wheel. Likewise from Schumis service car: the stability and traction control of CST, which are interlaced with butterfly valves, brakes, Sachs shock absorbers and automated six-course transmission. At the steering wheel the F430-Pilot between five characteristics can select? of handzahm to bang hard. In the Ferrari one notices the proximity to the GP runway in each curve.
A proximity, which is missing to the bull. The F430 works still higher-thrust and still more circle-greedily than the Gallardo. But after brisk travel over mountain routes also the Lambo steering wheel a broad Grinsen in the face has. Enzo would have fallen. Ferruccio also.
Technical data Ferrari F430: V8-Mittelmotor, lengthwise before the rear axle? four valves for each cylinders? four obenliegende cam shafts? Capacity 4308 cm3? Achievement 360 KW (490 HP) with 8500/min? max. torque of 465 Newtonmeters with 5250/min? Rear-wheel drive? automated six-course transmission? Independent suspension? 5-Stufen-CST (ESP)? electronic check differential up to 100 per cent? ventilated disc brakes? width/height lengthen 4512/1923/1214 mm? Wheel base 2600 mm? Level of fuel in the tank of 96 litres? Unloaded weight 1450 Kilos? 0?100 km/h in 4.0 seconds? 1000 m in 21.6 seconds? Maximum speed 315 km/h? Price starting from 140.000 euro