L.A. Auto Show: 2009 Lambo Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder

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Derivatives have gotten a bad name lately but the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder should help change that. A drop-top version of the Lambo Gallardo coupe — powered by the same direct-injection, 5.2-liter, 560-hp V-10 bucket of sin — the Spyder is called, with Lambo’s light touch of understatement, a ‘dynamic experience of unparalleled intensity.’

In addition to the convertible top, the rear end of the car has been redesigned to accentuate its ‘horizontality,’ according to design director Manfred Fitzgerald. Translation: new taillights.

Meanwhile, Lambo remains the company that care forgot. The company chalked up 2,406 sales worldwide in 2007, and the company is on pace for another record-breaking year in sales, turnover and profit margin. Lambo will sell 80 to 90 cars in China this year. Now that’s a planned economy I can get behind.

—Dan Neil

For photos of production cars from the L.A. Auto Show, click here.