Lamborghini Gallardo Tricolore: Official

Lamborghini Lamborghini Tricolore - a Balboni with a new stripe

Yes, it’s another Limited Edition Lamborghini Gallardo (although officially it’s just a one-off at the moment), this one bolted together to celebrate Italy’s 150th Anniversary of Unification and originally named the Lamborghini Gallardo Tricolore.

If that rings a faint bell somewhere, you may have been reminded that Pagani created a Zonda Tricolore as one of the endless ‘This is really the last Zonda’ creations to flog a one-off to someone with more money than they can fritter themselves without help from Horacio.

So what does the Gallardo Tricolore have to offer? To all intents and purposes it’s a Gallardo LP550-2 Balboni with a different paint job, but still a stripe that runs up the car and through the cabin.

This time it’s a red and green stripe bisected by the white paint job to evoke the Italian flag, but apart from that it appears to be a Balboni with the 550hp lump and rear wheel drive.

It seems highly likely Lamborghini will take the one-off Tricolore and turn it in to a limited edition. Chances are there are a few unsold Balbonis floating around (Lamborghini had to cane their dealers hard to take their allocation of Balbonis) so all they will need is a quick paint job to make this Gallardo appeal to every patriotic Italian.

Maybe ‘Flying the Flag’ will shift RWD Lambos. Nothing else has.

By Cars UK