Wolf in Sheepey Clothing
of a misnomer. Look at the Gallardo; the archetypal bull calf, it’s really only an infant in the eyes of those who associate pint-sized humans with Chucky, Ivy the Terrible and the little ’un from The Incredibles. It’s the car that really pushed Lamborghini into the volume-selling mainstream; production ran from 2003-2013 and they shifted over 14,000 units – stellar numbers for a company that always made cars which were deliberately obstinate, and had to make their peace with the fact that they probably wouldn’t be unit-shifters. The Gallardo paid a lot of bills. It helped greatly that it had an awesome 5.0-litre V10 producing a nice round 500bhp; it would run 0-62mph in 4.2-seconds straight out of
