Lamborghini's Gallardo has a need for speed

13/07/2008 18:49. No one laughs at your lime-green car when it's a Lamborghini.

They might smile slightly as you bend, fold and stuff yourself into the Lamborghini's impossibly low driver's seat (aimed, I guess, at the car's primary demographic group, millionaire gymnasts.) They may grin when you have to stop and electronically lift the front of the pavement-skimming Italian 4 inches before pulling into a driveway lest you relieve the Lambo of several thousand dollars' worth of low-hanging composite and carbon-fiber pieces.

But when the 512 horsepower awakens with its spine-tingling, flat bellow the barely muted thunder of violent storms in 10 smallish cylinders the smiles stop.

After all, even metallic lime-green cars look good at 200 mph or so I'm told.

The 2008 Lamborghini I had recently is the... // WFAA