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Lamborghini Gallardo

Test date 16 December 2003  Price as tested £117,000

In the past ‘baby’ meant V8 power so the original toddler has to be the Uracco 250 of 1970. It spawned three versions of the same two-door coupe, and a targa called the Silhouette. None of them ever really worried Ferrari. Next was the 3.5-litre Jalpa launched in 1981, but it never caught on in the UK as the concession changed hands and iron-oxide crippled the residuals. When the Jalpa died at the end of that decade the little Lambo disappeared until a concept called Cala arrived in 1995. It had a 400bhp V10 and didn’t look a whole lot unlike the Gallardo.

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