Category: Exotic Sports 
Price Range: £189,950 to £265,937
Awesome supercar presence and performance, incredible looks and unbeatable pose value.
Totally impractical, cramped and not for the faint-hearted.
A worthy, more user-friendly successor to the Diablo.
When, several years ago, Lamborghini was bought by the German giant Audi, we knew that the next supercar from the Italian stable would be something special. Lamborghinis have always had a reputation for being on the wilder side of crazy - so much so that it took a truly great driver to extract their maximum potential. Under Audi's guiding hand, we hoped, the replacement for the stunning Diablo would be as special as ever, but with some of those rougher edges smoothed off.
The all-new Murcielago is just that car. Visually an obvious descendant of the Diablo, it is nevertheless a much smoother design concept. The lines are cleaner, with a self-assurance that requires no lairy wings, overly acute angles or messy surfaces. The theme continues inside the cockpit which is strikingly austere. The bragging is saved for the engine bay behind your head in which lurks a jaw-dropping 6.2-litre V12 engine capable of producing 580 bhp (a rise of nearly 30 bhp on the Diablo). All that energy drives a sophisticated four-wheel-drive system which, via the all-new six-speed transmission, uses both a viscous coupling and electronic traction-control system to distribute power evenly to all four wheels.
