2007 LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO LP460 ROADSTER

The Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 was already indefensibly outrageous enough and now this, the LP640 Roadster, with the same svelte body and 640-hp V12 engine but no roof! Mama Mia!

Yes, yes, it is still uncomfortable as hell and awkward to drive and costs more than your first house and your first divorce combined, but what it does do it does soooo magnifico that you don’t even care about its flaws. It’s like owning a supermodel that you can keep in the garage.

But we were only taking photographs. There would be no track testing, no taking it to its claimed 204-mph top speed at Italy’s Nardo high-speed circuit, no using it for luring strumpets. Just a one-afternoon drive and then right back it goes to Lamborghini Orange County with no scratches anywhere.



Sure. This is what we promised ourselves and Lamborghini. But when the photo work was done and we found ourselves going against traffic on relatively empty roadways with many, many lanes in our direction and no cars on them and no O.C. Sheriff’s and well, what could it possibly hurt to bump that E-gear down a couple notches and wail? What? What? So…