Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder: Ice-cool cutie, you stole my heart

Monday, September 04, 2006

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder: Ice-cool cutie, you stole my heart

Nice words out of the mouth of Jeremy Clarkson. Yes, THE Jeremy Clarkson. Although we don't believe it was a sad day when Lamborgini was taken over by Audi. Some call it heaven's sent.

But then, one sad day a few years ago, Lamborghini was bought by Audi.

All of a sudden the Lambo boys were coming to work with plans to make a car that had space rockets and torpedo tubes only to find their fierce new headmaster was saying: “No boys. No more flying before you can walk. You can’t fit gamma-ray rear lights until you’ve made the clutch work properly.”

The result was the Gallardo. The One Cal Lambo Lite. It looked like a Lamborghini with all the mad bits sanded off. But it went like no Lamborghini before. Because it actually went, even when it was raining.

Plainly the fierce new headmaster was pleased with their efforts because now he’s let his boys go a bit mad again, cutting the Gallardo’s roof off, squeezing a bit more power from the engine, and fitting orange seats. And I won’t beat about the bush. It’s my new favourite supercar.