Excited? You should be, you automotive rascals.

Lamborghini is serving up a treat for you, so you better bring your big

plate…

What you see above is the Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Blancpain Edition. For

the peasants among you, Blancpain make watches. Like, really expensive ones. A

Blancpain watch is to a wrist-based timepiece what the Palace of Versailles is

to a land-based residence.

Blancpain also sponsors Lamborghini’s lightly insane Super Trofeo race series -

the fastest one-make series on Earth - so the good folk at Sant’Agata felt it

necessary to smother a Superleggera in carbon fibre and roll out a new

Gallardo. All hail the Blancpain Edition!

See more pics of the Blancpain Lambo

Regular readers of TopGear.com will know Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann is

serious about carbon fibre - the new supercar set to debut at Paris is likely

to bleed it - and as such this Blancpain Gallardo gets a mighty carbon fibre

rear spoiler, new engine cover (for ventilation), diffuser, new mirror casings,

carbon-ceramic brake discs and calipers, and ‘Skorpius’ wheels.

The seats are stitched in Alcantara with yellow accents and visible carbon

fibre, along with the Blancpain logo stitched about the cabin.

Lamborghini reckons the Gallardo’s performance is enhanced by these

carbon-fibre details, but the specs are equal to the standard 570-4

Superleggera: the 5.2-litre V10 generates 565bhp and propels the Gallardo, its

owners and their soon-to-be-emptied stomachs from 0-62mph in just 3.4 seconds

and on to a top speed of over 200mph. Sant’Agata also proudly trumpets the

Blancpain’s weight boasts no more than 1,340kg - the same as the Superleggera.

Still, this be no bad thing indeed. 570bhp in something weighing the same as a

Focus diesel is a Good Thing. Like it?

And

now, rather spuriously, is some more Lamborghini goodness. US tuner Underground

Racing has tweaked the mighty, meaty and magnificent Murcielago LP670-4. And by

tweaked, we mean wig-splitting, ice-cap melting tweakery. They’ve pumped the

Murci’s power from 670bhp to 1,100bhp using two turbochargers.

Watch Underground Racing’s promo vid and tell us you’re not fizzing…