The SV is not a subtle car. As soon as it appears, childish you starts jabbering and capering about in your head: ‘Look! It’s got a massive wing! And look, the exhaust is a lozenge-shaped cave… And it’s so BIG, and WIDE and NOISY and orange’. You are reduced to a state of pure gawp.
It’s what a supercar should be: utterly enthralling. You can’t take your eyes off it, in case it does something amazing, like explode, or transform into a helicopter gunship.
Drive it, and the SV gets even better: a proper dramatic treat. This isn’t Casualty, it’s King Lear with machine guns and real bullets. This is how supercars used to be in the glittery and inaccurate halls of my memory.
Being honest, 12-year-old me wants all supercars to be huge, wide, dramatic things that make people fall over and girls wave and smile even when you’re fugly. Noisy, immature, socially irresponsible. Massively expensive. Metallic orange with the big wing pack.
But there’s a problem: thirty-plus me needs a car that delivers. Middle age brings feelings of self-worth based around exactly how damn fast this thing is. There would be nothing worse than having all the flame-spitting gurning if the SV wasn’t devastatingly, rub-your-nose-in-it, sod-off-and-die fast.
But it is.
It’s one of the few cars on the planet that can wear that rear wing, eyeball-searing Tango paint, be wider than a Victorian terrace and still have more trouser than mouth.
Inside it’s all carbon fibre and transmission tunnel, generous slathers of alcantara and something… else. Intimidation. Whiffy fear. The nose dips away in front, the glassy lozenges stacked across that rampant V12 flick light out back. It’s pure theatre and the better for it.
Twisting the key produces a whirr replaced suddenly by a revvy bark. Heads snap around and little boys point. Good. That’s what I’m talking about.
And when you watch the Stig going hard, you see the car’s rear-biased four-wheel drive understeering slightly, then monstering to power-oversteer.
In fact, we had trouble getting the Stig out of it. We had to threaten to burn him out, by the end.
Suffice to say that everything you hope the Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 SV might be, it is. Which, when something makes this many visual promises, is a very big compliment indeed.
Watch Stig lapping the TG GP ’09 cars: Aston Vantage V12, Ferrari 599 HGTE, KTM X-Bow, Porsche 911 GT3, Nissan 370Z, Renaultsport Clio 200 Cup and Audi R8 V10.
Then read about all of them.
2nd forst comment of the week. i really should do some work
love that car sssoooooo much!!!! in fact the same amount as the corvette ZR1!!!!! i really do want to know what the ZR1 could do around the track, i think it’d be phenominally fast !! i think faster than an enzo on ar with the zonda F. we’ll have to see next series! or else >:(
OMFG!!!!!
One of my legs just got longer looking at this…
Best car on the planet!!!
This is what Lambo is all about!!
Looks like its been tangoed. Love it.
ZR1, LM C6.R, USF1. America is so awesome its general public doesn’t know about any of that or F1/Lemans. Yet..yet Corvettes dominate in Lemans. What is this…
It’s a mental car – I hope it’s in Forza 3 for the Xbox 360, that’s as close as I will get to driving one! I love it!
soz like the SLR Stirling Moss or the 599 GTB.
sorry not much room for space in screen name
Tom’s posting stuff again!!
YAYYY!
My vote goes to this one!
last salute to true lambo sportscar heritage and boy imagination
beatiful!!!
beautiful* exscuse me
It’s first not that. Lamborghini Murciélago LP670-4 SV is an excellent car. Amazing!
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my favourite car at the moment, until lambo releases the replacement for this. btw if people didn’t know Lamborghini and Bugatti are confirmed to be in GT5. woooo.
this is my pick of the lot and by a huge margin
Orange, rear wing, vulgar, big, bad. I hate it.
I need one. How much is it?
How can something be so vulgar and horrible and in the same time so gentle and terrific? That’s what a proper supercar ought to be.
i absolutely adore this car, well done lambo
I love how it looks like the old Diablo SV.
very cool
Stunning car, wonder how long it ‘ll be before Audi’s development team sort their awaited Soiled Pants Changed On The Move device? surely this should be the car to give the SPCOTM device it’s debut?
If it came with a complimentary bright orange helmet, it’d be perfect!
This car I was waiting for checking everyday if the spec has been unveiled and when it did WOAH what a car then TopGear got hold of 1 and mate believe me when I say this I was like FUKIN HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL GREAT MACHINE sad to see murcie’s go
Still the only bad boy car maker on the planet!
This car is awesome and I would love to have one over any of the other cars mentioned. JC has a dirty habit of putting these cars down over a noncy little Fezza, but he’s wrong.
Proper supercar
Good work Lambo. Mad, noisy and very, very fast.
A proper supercar.
y dont u do a test of the fastest cars in the world?
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My Second Favorite Lambo, First Is The Miura SV!
as almost all Lambos, I love it! A great tribute to the murcielago.
A feat of engineering by anyone’s standards.
my sister loves it
That is My favorite car .
Lamborghini must be proud of it.
I can’t wait to see it’s lap time …….
It’s bonkers car and it is my 3rd favourite car here
This is how cars should be! I’m still 15 that’s prob. the reason why i think that way but that new cars shaped like eggs are sooo frustrating! I love it when someone makes car that we all want. Not the car that we need. But the car that we want. In my opinion we should pick our cars in the way we picked our first car. It should be exciting, not practical, loud, fast, make babies cry, make little boys eyes to pop out… and make you feel young and free.
Wonderful car. Though I would rather like a Gallardo!!!
d gallardo is much prittier in every way
As much as I want one, I can’t have one. Because of the damn price tag
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Absolute hooligan of a car, this. I want one!
But why can’t all Lambos look as good as the Reventon?
whereas the gallardo is just gorgeous (especially in pearl white) the SV makes it look almost bland, with the huge exhaust, monstrous wing, startling orange color its the return of the bad boy racer
I don’t know If I said it already but …I’m so glad I found this site…Keep up the good work I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog. Thanks,
A definite great read..Tony Brown
looks very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
y dont all you top gear guy suk ma dik!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i luv stig…… i gave hm a t bag.. lovley n
Lambo is just amazing. but they need more amazing stuff on this one. I mean, there aren’t even any machine guns. fast as hell though
50th comment! lol
Well, I think the name ‘SV’ is
enough to express that car’s characters.
God this car is amazing! SV means Super violent
…………..Holy crap, coolest car in the world, then it’s the reventon,miura, aventador, murcielago, diablo, countach and so on, no cars even come close to the aura of awesomeness that Lamborghinis’ exert