EVOLUTION

Join us as we celebrate 60 years of Lamborghini, revel in a century of automotive development and contemplate 300,000 years of human evolution.

- DHRUV BEHL

What starts as an electronic pulse, responding to a flexed right foot, ends up – through the process of combustion – as the angry wail of spent gases escaping via the quad pipes of an Akrapovic exhaust connected to the 657bhp 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 of a Lamborghini Urus Performante.

The echo off the Tuscan hills is merely an exclamation mark on an experience that will reserve pride of place in my hippocampus for a long time to come. Meanwhile, the heat haze emanating from the engine cover of a Huracan Technica at full throttle in front of me causes me not to duck for cover but to pinch myself. After all, this is what dreams are made of! Well, this is what birthday celebrations are made of – to mark 60 years from the debut of Ferruccio Lamborghini’s first creation, the 350GT, in 1963.

HOW IT STARTED 

Legend has it that Ferrari owner, Ferruccio Lamborghini – a wealthy Italian industrialist and manufacturer of tractors – complained to Enzo Ferrari about the clutch on his car. Needless to say, Il Commendatore was none too pleased and dismissed not just the complaint but also the complainant – to his own peril as it turned out. Ferruccio Lamborghini simply turned around and founded the fiercest rival that Ferrari has ever known.

HOW IT’S GOING