If you had any questions about the success of Lamborghini’s Huracán as a replacement for the Gallardo—which you really wouldn’t have if you’d read our first drive review—you’ll have none now: the Huracán has officially racked up 1,000 U.S. sales and 3,000 global sales in just 10 months.

The result is enough for Lamborghini itself to crow about, and rightfully so—the 3,000 figure is one that brand hasn’t seen in the entire 2000-2012 period, making this Lamborghini’s best year this century. In 2013, Lamborghini marked the sale of just 2,121 cars, well short of its previous record mark of 2,406 units in 2008.

For 2014, the company is on pace to reach 3,600 total sales, though whether the supercar market will hold up—or rise—before year’s end is anyone’s guess.

Lamborghini thinks this year’s success is about more than just a brutally handsome pair of cars in the Huracán and the Aventador, however.

The company’s COO, Alessandro Farmeschi, said in a statement, “In the Americas we worked together with our dealer partners to outline their launch outreach strategy from a new perspective. How to make their events and communications bold yet welcoming. As a result, we are watching a success story unfold. As the Huracán arrives in-market, consumers are anxiously waiting to experience this vehicle which is a direct result of these targeted events.”

Whatever the reason, it’s hard to argue with the success in terms of cars sold—and for the enthusiast, it’s always a good thing to see supercar brands succeed.

One of our most cherished cars of the modern era, the Gallardo Superleggera, looks set to receive a successor based on Lamborghini’s latest Huracán supercar. Although the car in these latest spy shots looks like your standard Huracán LP 610-4, our photographer tells us that the car is much louder than stock and if you look closely it features a new exhaust system with two high-mounted tailpipes. The standard quad-pipe arrangement lower in the bumper are dummy units used to fool onlookers.

This higher mounting for the tailpipes is similar to what you see on the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo race car, suggesting that this is a more hardcore version of the Huracán in testing. Lamborghini has just launched a new Aventador variant badged a Superveloce, but this is a designation the Italian marque uses for its high-endmodels. That’s why it’s likely this hardcore Huracán will be badged something like Superleggera.

The original Gallardo Superleggera was presented at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show and quickly garnered a reputation not only for its primal, track-honed feel but also for the predictable and intuitive way it reacted to inputs to the steering wheel and gas pedal, which made it easy to live with off the track. Superleggera is Italian for “super light”, so any new Superleggera version of the Huracán will have to feature some weight saving mods such as a stripped-out cabin and increased use of carbon fiber.

Other potential upgrades could include a slight bump in power, perhaps with the final figure matching the 611 horsepower (620 hp in metric figures) of the Huracán LP 620-2 Super Trofeo racer. The standard Huracán LP 610-4 comes with 601 hp. Tweaks to the suspension, steering and transmission are all possible as well.

By increasing the performance of the Huracán, Lamborghini will be able to ensure that its entry-level supercar will be able to keep up with newer rivals such as the Ferrari 488 GTB and McLaren 675LT. However, we wouldn't expect to see any new Huracán variant until 2016—at the earliest. This would be in keeping with the automaker's promise to introduce at least one new model every year.