Outrageously quick incredible to behold and intrinsically exotic, no wonder these are the cars that decorate bedroom walls.
The 12-cylinder Lamborghini bloodline carries on today, but the Murciélago, most of all the SV, was the one that most boiled down the essence of snorting nostrils and cloven hooves. Just look at the thing. It has the ridiculous proportions that Lamborghini has always carried off better than any other carmaker. It’s a life event to drive too, not just thunderously dramatic but capable and strangely big-hearted without any of the clever-clever transmission or steering systems that colour the Aventador.
The two-seat 12-cylinder Ferrari changed, though. I remember the revelation of driving the then-new 550 Maranello, and even more vividly of being driven in it by Michael Schumacher as he did full-hairpin drifts, one handed, gesticulating at me with the other. No one reckoned this front-engined V12 machine was a lesser car than the flat-12 mid-engined F512M. But it had less of a talent for making eight-year-old boys point and shout – Ferrari had ceded that ground permanently to Lambo.
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