SIÁN IS BELIEVING
WOULD MARCELLO GANDINI APPROVE OF THE Lamborghini Sián? I can’t help wondering as much when I first encounter this extraordinary-looking car, not on a neon-lit show stand in Frankfurt but as it makes its way silently out of the back of a transporter in an otherwise-deserted car park near Beachy Head.
It’s 6am, and for the time being no one else is up in this part of the world to care about such things. It’s just me, a small crew of Lamborghini support bods and evo’s ebullient-as-ever staff photographer, Aston Parrott.
Aston is hyper-keen to get going, to start shooting, because the light is getting spookier and sexier by the second. Bathed in that light, the Sián’s Verde Gea (green ice) paintwork is already starting to sing. But I want to stand there for a while and drink it all in – because in the flesh, in ordinary surroundings such as these, the Lamborghini Sián (pronounced see-an) is truly a sight to behold.
Its looks were reportedly influenced by the work of Gandini, who was, of course, responsible for some of Lamborghini’s best-known and most outlandish models, including the Countach and Diablo. Just as those cars would stop passers-by in their tracks, so too would the Sián – if only there were any about at this early hour.
It looks massive and beautiful and scary, all at the same time. And when its V12 engine fires, I’m not kidding, my mouth goes dry and my scalp goes all tingly for a second. I am having what is commonly
