Lamborghini Gallardo driven

Lamborghini Gallardo driven

The Lamborghini Gallardo celebrates its 10th birthday this year. A decade old. A year for each cylinder. Quite old, when there are newer, more shiny things around, such as the McLaren 12C and Ferrari 458. Alongside them, Lambo's bread-and-butter supercar looks a bit, well, bread-and-butter. An old bruiser, no longer to be taken seriously. A battle-scarred veteran of the supercar wars.

And that's precisely why you shouldn't underestimate it. Lamborghini knows how to make an exciting sports car, always has done, and hopefully always will do. But, yes, in essence, the latest Gallardo hasn't progressed forward so much as sideways. No engine or chassis upgrades, the interior is entirely familiar, all that's new is a pair of bumpers fore and aft and some even more spangly 19-inch ‘Apollo-polished' alloys. These look similar to the ones on our TG Garage Citroen DS5.