Not too long ago Lamborghini updated their Gallardo model with the new LP560-4. Why the name? LP stands for “longitudinal poseriore” because of the rear longitudinal engine position. The 560 part of the name represents the amount of horsepower that the 5.2L V10 pumps out. -4 represents 4 wheel drive. Congratulations, consider yourself a Lamborghini Gallardo naming expert!

I ran over to Lamborghini Washington for a first hand look at the new supercar. They had two in the inventory, one in white, and the other in a semi-dark silver:

Thinking of picking one up?? The silver one will run you about $265,000:

Lamborghini has a habit of doing this. They design a car that I look at and fall in love with. I can’t even begin to fathom how the design can be improved, but then they redesign, and it looks even better. Most notably to me the major improvements are on the front and rear parts of the car. The frontend has a new, more aggressive looking bumper with larger openings. It looks more like their super duper car, the $1.6 million Reventon. Along with the redesigned headlights, it makes the new rendition much angrier looking.

More importantly the rear of the car has been completely redesigned. I would say that the rear of the first Gallardo was the one part of the car that a lot of people didn’t like so much. Obviously Lamborghini heard this too, and redesigned accordingly. The new rear is much cleaner:

The updated lower profile taillights and the quad exhaust tips really do the majority of the improvements for me.

Here’s some more pictures that I took for you to enjoy:

Here’s a couple that were hooked up that I saw at SEMA in Las Vegas:

I’ll be in Vegas Wednesday-Saturday for SEMA 2008. For those that don’t know about SEMA, it’s the biggest trade event for automotive specialty products. The show is full of the latest products in the aftermarket automotive world, the hottest cars (all the companies bring their best out), and all the hottest booth babes. SEMA is something I’ve wanted to attend for a few years now but things were never able to work out.

I’ll mainly be attending to do some business for Carbon Fiber Gear. There are a ton of people and companies I’m connecting with at the show. From current suppliers, to potential future suppliers, to covering the carbon fiber products of the show, to promoting the site to the industry, it’s going to be quite a busy schedule. Aside from all the business, I’ll have to leave some time for partying.

If you happen to be in Vegas this week, regardless of being at SEMA or not, let me know and we can meet up for a drink or something.

I’m back from Vegas, unfortunately internet access wasn’t as accessible as I had hoped (nor did I have much spare time!). Vegas was a great time with pretty much non-stop action and little sleep. We arrived on Sunday, and headed over to Bellagio to see the O Cirque De Soliel show after checking in. The show was very impressive, especially the stage which went from a regular stage to a pool in seconds.

Later that night we headed over the Absolut Vodka penthouse suite in Caesars Palace for John Chow‘s CES kickoff party. While I’ve known John for about 10 years now, this was actually the first time I ever met him. We ended up getting their almost 2 hours late, and by that time John was pretty trashed…he didn’t realize who I was until the second time I introduced myself lol.

The room was awesome, with different themes in each bedroom. For anybody that went there, you would have noticed a variety of banners as well as a couple vendor setups around the room. That’s how you make an expensive party free ?? This was one of the setups from NZXT for example:

The next day we went to CES. We ended up going to the smaller portion of the show at the Sands convention center and weren’t that impressed. That night we went out to Jet Nighclub in the Mirage. That’s always good times as always, if you go, I recommend getting there early unless you have some sort of connection.

I know the picture looks like there are only guys there, but rest assured, the girls are inside

The last full day we were there we went to the big portion of CES, which turned out to be much better. I wish we had done that for both days!? We tried to pack in as much of the show as we could in one day, which is not nearly enough time. Here’s a few of my favorite things:

This is a Pioneer Kuro (the new name for the high-end elite series) concept which was just ridiculously flat:

If you know me, you’ll know that you can probably find me in the automotive car entertainment section of the show. That’s where you’ll find all the cool cars, cool car gadgets, and hottest booth babes. In there you’d have found a Hummer with 30″ wheels with a ridiculous dish. Pictures don’t really do justice, but for comparison sake see how big the lip is with a $100 bill on it:

For those of you that haven’t heard of the Tesla Roadster, it’s a 100% electric sportscar that does 0-60 in under 4 seconds. I haven’t seen one yet, but luckily the Blaupunkt booth had one:

I didn’t grab a picture, but it was cool to see the Optimus Maximus keyboard which features all programmable OLED keys.

I didn’t have much time to do any gambling, I only pretty much played roulette for about 15-30 minutes at a time every now and then. Luckily I was able to walk away from Vegas up $150 or so…while only putting $20 on the roulette table at one time. I should be going to Atlantic City on Friday, so I’ll have some time to actually do a little gambling and hopefully play some poker. All in all, Vegas was a great success for a first time visit, and I hope to be back again soon.