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The Gallardo LP 550-2 Spyder is the quintessential enthusiast’s Lamborghini, the perfect choice for public roads. Despite an abundance of exotics claiming to be driver-oriented sports cars, it is rare to find a vehicle that is not only gorgeous to look at, but overdelivers in all measured performance categories.

For those loaded bipeds hoping to get one of the most memorable, undoubtedly visceral, and demanding rides around, they need not look any further than the 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Bicolore.

Italian passion and German engineering combine to make the 2012 Lamborghini Gallardo a wild yet civilized supercar.

If you lean toward the muscle-car end of the convertible-supercar segment, the 2012 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Spyder is your ride. It has 543 hp and weighs 3,500 pounds. You can’t go wrong.

The Spyder Performante exists purely to thrill. It’s one of the most impractical cars in the universe. And that’s a compliment.

Every up-shift feels like a firm smack on the back, as if to say, “Giddy up! Drive faster!” It’s a constant reminder that no matter how hard you’re driving the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera LP 570-4, it has more to give.

When you get the whole dynamic right, you’ll feel the seatbelt harness pulling you deep into the carbon-fiber seats and close to the Lamborghini Gallardo’s wild inner spirit and you’ll find it impossible to believe you could ever live without this car.

In the rivalry between the preeminent Italian sports-car makers, the Lamborghini LP570-4 Superleggera is definitely a wilder, more extroverted car than is Ferrari’s 458 Italia, but we’ll defer judgment on which is better until we can compare them side by side.

While you can still buy it in colors that don’t exist in nature (nuclear green for example), the Lamborghini Superleggera is a serious sports machine, in direct competition with the Ferrari 430 Scuderia, also a light-weight version of a popular road- going car.

The Gallardo Superleggera is a pure performance car, but also one of the most forgiving, easy-to-drive exotics we’ve ever seen.

The 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera LP570-4 marks the transition from boulevard racer to hardcore supercar that can’t wait to be unleashed. This Lamborghini redefines the demarcation line between pain and pleasure, punishment and reward.

To truly appreciate the LP570-4 Superleggera, buyers should pony-up for a membership at one of the motorsports country clubs popping up, because even after a day at the track, you’ll only just start to be getting an idea of what this machine is capable of.