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My favourite Lambo

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Writer:

Henry Catchpole | Journalist

Date:

19 March 2022

This week (as The Fast Show’s Jesse would say) I have been mostly driving a Lamborghini Huracan STO. Pointy, aggressive, raw and possessed of a fabulous soundtrack, it is a glorious riot of a car. I love it. In fact, it got me wondering whether it might be my favourite Lamborghini.

There are a few contenders for the top spot and, after finally getting behind the wheel of one last year, I can safely say that a Diablo SV is right up there. With the big decals down the side and a copy of Travelling Without Moving in the tape deck (not that you’d ever hear it over the V12) it encapsulates so much of what made my impressionable younger self become obsessed with cars.

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