Quote Originally Posted by Bleeding Heart View Post
Quite Italian still but not as much as that of the Diablo and Countach...

It is just a little too civilized nowadays...

Lamborghinis before like the countach and diablo were not very convenient to drive as an everyday car...

Now, if you have the money for the fuel. You can drive a Lamborghini murcielago everyday as a roadcar... It has Sat Nav, Airconditioning that actually works, etc...

As Jeremy Clarkson said, Audi is taking away Lamborghini's soul...
back in the days of the Countach or of the Diablo, there weren't supercars with satnav, air conditioning and power everything.
AFAIK Audi just payed the Murcielago and hade a supervising role in the design. the car was still developed by the the people from the former Lamborghini company.

the Gallardo has been completely developed and designed at Ingolstad.

TBH, the only real crazy Lamborghini (apart from the LM) was the Countach. The Diablo is just a technical and stylistic evolution of it, but nothing was like the Countach when it originally came out.

besides, the Diablo isn't very problematic to use as an everyday car, apart from the expensive maintenance (just because it wasn't designed to face so high mileage, a problem also cars like the 550/575 had).
if wondering about the high power, it wasn't the only one with about 500 hp, and it even had the 4wd system, and even quite comfy interiors (considering the car it is). the only thing owners seriously complain about is the heavy clutch.
the F40 is a car not suitable for an everyday use, but those are two very different kind of cars.