2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder - First Drive Review - Car and Driver
Maybe it was the perfect place for a Lamborghini Gallardo—about 5000 feet above Tenerife Island in the Canary Islands off Morocco, where the winding climb finally levels off onto an utterly empty, treeless moonscape of volcanic desolation. In the ’60s, Raquel Welch made One Million Years B. C. one island over, because that’s what the place looks like. It looks like a Salvador Dalí playground without the melting clocks, and we expected at any moment some prehistoric killing bird to come screeching and flapping out of the sky, snapping and biting and hissing, providing a real moment for that... About a half-mile up the road, a brand-new, chalk-white Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder makes a U-turn. In a moment we hear the first explosive sounds of the guy laying into it. Suddenly, the car’s howl seems to split the sky open. The paddle shifts come one-two-three , and there’s that piercing cry of an F1 car that a moment later turns into an eye-bulging Pavarotti high note—and yes, it does look like some killer pterodactyl coming at you, hugging the ground, hawk-eyed,... And when it blows by flat out, it whips a whoosh of wind across the faces of a busload of open-mouthed but definitely thrilled Spanish tourists. Source: www.caranddriver.com
