Lamborghini Gallardo SE: Road test by TopGear

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Lamborghini Gallardo SE: Road test by TopGear

TopGear has made a road test with the Lamborghini Gallardo SE. You can expect a fun read, like always at TopGear!

Badgers, zebras, collie dogs and the occasional magpie. Fine. I could even deal with a ringtailed lemur, or the more subtle colourations of the coal-highlights-on-ivory polar bear.

But if you were to ask me whether I wanted a black-and-white Lamborghini yesterday, I'd have spat some unnecessarily vitriolic rejoinder about not being a monochromatophiliac retard. Sorry.

Thankfully, this Lamborghini Gallardo SE has taken a style bludgeon to my preconceptions. It makes use of the most basic of colour schemes to highlight its differences by delineating the new blacked-out roof, window line and jewellery - like the dark wheels and wing mirrors.

A bellowing advert for racial harmony; never have black and white got on so well in so confined an aesthetic space, or done more to make a car look like a Stormtrooper's helmet.

The use of the black, the pause in the Lambo's visual tempo, is also one of the ways that you can tell that this isn't just any old Gallardo, but the new and supremely boxfresh SE.