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The rear-driven Lamborghini Huracán Evo is a good deal less expensive than its all-wheel-drive counterpart and a good deal more thrilling.

- DARYL LEE

THE HISTORY OF Lamborghini experimenting with a rear-wheel-drive-only Baby Lambo goes all the way back to 2009 with the Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni. Released as a 250-unit special edition to commemorate its eponymous long-standing test-driver, the LP 550-2, as the numeral in the second half of its name implied, eschewed the all-wheel-drive of other regular Gallardos.

That was followed by several more limited-run rear wheel-drive Gallardos, and finally we come to this, the Huracán Evo RWD – available in both coupe and roadster forms, with the latter to follow in the coming months – which isn’t limited and available to anyone.

Anyone that is, willing to part with some S$798,000, excluding COE and options. Still, it’s what you might even call a bargain, considering it costs S$160,000 less than the all-wheel-drive Huracán Evo.

Money you could well put into carbon fibre trim or a bespoke exterior colour and/or upholstery colour through Lamborghini’s customisation programme Ad Personam, or fund your child’s university education.