2017 Lamborghini Centenario

The wild one Hundred Lamborghini's wicked Centenario is one hell of a birthday salute

- Georg Kacher

The ambient temperature is 93 degrees, track temperature 120. My blood pressure is probably 170/100, and my heart rate borders on three figures. Lamborghinis tend to get adrenaline coursing through you, but this isn’t any old Lambo test mule. This is the most powerful car ever produced in Sant’Agata Bolognese— a four-wheeled salute to the 100th birthday of the Raging Bull’s late founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini.

Glistening in the early morning light is the one and only Centenario demonstration prototype, which Lamborghini will one day trailer to its final destination at the brand’s factory museum. Inside, the yellow-over-black cabin is swathed in Alcantara, carbon fiber, and leather, and its digitized instrument panel and center stack dazzle. The suspension is more rigid than a Catholic school nun, a low-flying roofline keeps headroom to aminimum, and 12 free-breathing cylinders lurk menacingly out back. There is never any doubt: The 759-horsepower Centenario is a hellhound on the prowl. Lamborghini says it will accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds and reach a top speed of 217 mph. At a starting price of roughly $1.9 million, the limited production run of only 40 cars—20 coupes, 20 roadsters—is, naturally, sold out.