It certainly isn’t much to look at just yet but Lamborghini’s Gallardo-successor, the Cabrera, has been spotted undergoing shakedowns in bulky body-cladding around Germany’s famed Nurburgring. While still heavily camouflaged, it’s clear that Lamborghini’s much-anticipated model will borrow styling cues from the Aventador flagship, as prefaced by the same style of LED daytime running lights, two large front inlets and massive quad exhausts out the back.
The Cabrera will also adopt the Aventador’s use of lightweight composites such as carbon fibre and aluminium, which should result in a significant weight loss compared to the outgoing Gallardo. The Cabrera will also retain the Gallardo’s V10 engine, but the ring-ding E-Gear will be replaced by a quick-shifting double clutch transmission.
To keep the Ferrari 458 Italia and McLaren 12C on their toes, power should increase to over 447 kW (600-horsepower) and therefore gain the Lamborghini naming convention LP600-4 (-2). The engine in the current Lamborghini Gallardo makes 412 kW and 540 Nm of torque.
We were expecting the Lamborghini Cabrera to be revealed as part of Lamborghini‘s on going 50th anniversary celebrations at this year’s Frankfurt International Motor Show, but even here Lamborghini kept us waiting. The Lamborghini Cabrera will replace one of the best-selling supercars ever, but then again when you keep a car in production for over a decade it will sell in big numbers now wont it? But can the Cabrera trump the Gallardo in terms of sheer quality rather than quantity?
Watch the Lamborghini Cabrera lap while making noticeably fast, twin-clutch ‘paarps’ on up-shift:
