You know that we have crusaded for years to stop drug dealers buying Lambos. Particularly pink and yellow ones. I mean, seriously, you might as well have a flashing neon sign on the back of your Huracan saying: "Fun police stop me and search my car now."
For $650k, a saving of about $300k, you can buy a 1988 Lamborghini LM002 SUV. You're thinking "Johnny Boy (girl or other), you must be going Captain Rats!" Lambo SUVs are all called Urus, meaning an extinct, shaggy, long-horned wild ox (bos primigenius) or a naughty part of the body (humani corporis). Imagine pulling up outside the human ponytail's Margaret at Double Pay and some smarty, like celebrity stockpicker Gus Aitken or company director John Green, yelling out: "You've got a nice Urus there."
No, we're talking the Rambo Lambo. Developed by Patrick Mimran when he was 25 and CEO and owner of Lambo (he and his bro bought it for $3m when the company was belly-up), the LM was meant for the military, but they didn't want it (even in pink) so Pat plonked a 350KW, 5.2-litre, 48-valve V-12 fed by six dual-throat Weber carburettors in the front, full stereo in the roof, lots of wood on the dash, 345mm run flat Pirelli Scorpions on the wheels and ciggy lighter and sold 301.
Pat has since become a contemporary French multimedia artist and composer. Pat's 7.5m sculpture, Jet Set Giraffe, is considered the tallest giraffe sculpture in the world.
Yes readers, the Montreal F1 on the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on the Notre Dame Island was a sensational race for Kayo viewers but really terrible if you had paid to get into the track. The reality is the Montreal track is more about the drivers than the cars and the results showed just how good the first six or seven drivers are and how close the Mercs, Williams and even Aston Martin are to the Red Bulls. Three leaders on a slippery track with a couple of heavy doses of rain, tyre choices were critical, a safety car changing the outcome and every driver managing to find grass, concrete and other non-formal spots on the 70-lap island. The real star of the race was 31-year-old Kevin Magnussen who, in the wet, came from 14th on the grid going through the field like a dose of salts and got to fifth.
Talking of Toyota, this week we tested a beautiful black GR Yaris manual at the challenging Steve Shelley's Pheasant Wood circuit. If you're a green person then this car should be a winner for you. Only three cylinders. But good for 230km/h. You don't get much for $60k these days.
To the untrained eye the GR looks like a (very) ordinary $25k Yaris. But behind the wheel this is a rocket ship that handles as well as an MX-5 and is faster and much more comfy.
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