It only feels German in the high quality interior bits and the controlled ride. I’m pretty much okay with that.

Hopefully you can experience one for yourself, but take it from me, its still an Italian beastie even with the Audi-polish on it.

Give Jason Heffner in FL a call, and drive one of his TT Gallardos. That will pretty much negate the one issue I have with the G….soft bottom end, and not enough peak power for an exotic….well at least compared to the aforementioned Z06.

Great article, BTW. I love the line about the Taurii and their bovine overlord….well done!

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ajla : No, I didn’t like very much about the M6. Since you asked, out of the ones you listed, I’ll go for the LPE Z06. It’s amazing what exhaust, cam, real seats and Pilot Sport Cup tires did to the C6 Z06. Its gotta be Enzo-worthy, even if its only $80k or so. Wow.

And yes, the Lambo’s visibility was amazingly good…or modern family sedans are pretty terrible. Your choice.

Redbarchetta : I like Ferrari’s, but something about the Lambo’s style really speaks to me. They’ve done a great job connecting to the original Countach’s wedge profile, and they stuck with the mid-engine configuration I love about exotics.

Jordan Tenenbaum : Find me a Countach I can (gently) drive and I’m on it. That and the Testarossa were the dream cars of my youth, and I seriously doubt anything can top them…even if they are rather tame by today’s standards.

drifter : Sport bikes don’t come with an Alcantara lined roof. And this is TTAC, not TTAB. :-)

philipwitak : Luckily, its appeal is more than just styling. Sure a Corvette Z06 will whip it, but its impossible not to love this ride.

Samir Syed : I’ll do a GT redo after a significant milestone in the Ford Death Watch series. I don’t expect the milestone to be especially pleasant, but at least the GT will warm the soul.

Terry Parkhurst : Lambos are great for short term purchases when you buy them used. Drive it for 6 months and 3,000 miles, then sell it with a high end auto broker doing the deal. You’ll lose few grand, but not much. (from what I’ve seen and heard)

dolo54 : I do like driving the exotics, but I *might* get more satisfaction from telling a good story about mainstream cars. Its easy to go on and on about a Lambo, but the Buick Lucerne and its connection to Electra Waggoner Biggs? That’s the story to tell.

Probably a lot of them are exotics from the New York Classic Car Club on Hudson. They get a pretty decent rotation of these beauts.

Ralph Lauren showed off his Classic Car Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
From the Classic, Exotic and the Fastest.

I can’t believe he has collection of cars that I never seen before. I think he own the one of a kind Ferrari FI and Jay Leno is another story to tell.

General engineering excellence.

Pure autmotive extravagance.

Massive financial exhuberance.

Gives me an instant “protuberance”!

Having last (and first time) driven a Lamborghini back when the hot ticket was the all-wheel drive Diablo, it seemed then that the car could indeed “leap tall buildings in a single bound” (to borrow a line from the intro to the old “Superman” television show, favorite of Baby Boomers everwhere). I’d never had a salesman actually encourage me to hit 100 mph; and yet, he did.

I backed off at 90 mph, when a tiny vintage Datsun trundled out in front of us, in the midst of mid-day traffic. I remember telling him that the engine would probably do well in an off-shore raceboat and he concurred, adding that someone had indeed done that swap.

I expected that most people would have given us thumbs-down, for conscipcuous consumption. But instead, the purple – what it looked like to me – Diablo elicited air horns from Class 8 truckers and a lot of inquiries from drivers, when the salesman and I stopped at a Federal Express facility to ask directions. When you drive a Lamborghini, it seems that people who appreciate interesting machinery are automatically your friends. For that alone, the $246,000 (cost of the Diablo, in 1995, before tax and license) might have been worth it; just don’t expect to see that much money coming back at you, if you sell a Lambo, five or ten years out.

It sounds more your speed. I don’t think you really “get” the 99.9% of the folks on this site.

Just another boring everyday car you, huh. When are they going to give you something fun to test?

You can do a 144 month lease, check it out:

http://www.donlleasing.com/detail-2004-lamborghini-gallardo-1194061.html

I’m actually crazy (or stupid) enough to do one of these, maybe in a few years once I’ve finished paying off my Vette

And I would like to third the classic car reviews, I’ve always wanted to see reviews of classic cars, or maybe even cars that aren’t ‘classic’ but are interesting and predate TTAC. I would be interested to read pretty much any sports/luxury/exotic car from the 90s or early 2000s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWQDWXviuFM

sheckels? $175K? this thing may as well cost a pound of flesh.