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CASTEL LO
D I COMP I ANO
LAMBORGH I N I
AVENTADOR
LAT I CASTEL L I
L I G U R I A N S E A
T U S C A N Y
RAPOLANO TERME
SANT’AGATA
BOLOGNESE
COMPIANO
ROME
34
MARCH 2012
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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
“TAKE ONE LIBERTY
with this car, and she’ll take you
down,” says the Lamborghini test driver as the closest
thing I’ve seen to a stealth fighter rolls through the
factory hangar doors in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy.
Its Y-slanted headlights glaring, its sunset-orange
carbon-fiber body andflared air intakes looking angry,
this is Lamborghini’s new supercar, the Aventador.
Already as legendary as the company’s flagship, the
Murciélago, it’s the perfect union of beauty and beast.
I slide into theAventador’s high-tech cockpit, trying
to find an ignition to slot the keys into. “You push the
bu on there,” the test driver says. “No, there.
Mamma
mia
, the bu on on the center console!” He points to
a
Top Gun
–style starter bu on under a red flip-up
cover. I push it, triggering what sounds and feels like
a seismic event. And away we go.
Following a winding mountain road en route to
Tuscany, I roar into Compiano, where I stop to
Raging Bull
The beastly Lamborghini Aventador makes some noise
in otherwise tranquil Tuscany
BY CINDY-LOU DALE
ITALY
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