Pull the paddle under your right forefinger – click, clunk – another gear slots home and before you have time to think the big V10 is climbing back through the revs, gaining speed in 20mph gulps.
So Lamborghini's much anticipated Gallardo replacement is fast. Who'd have guessed? But it's how it's fast that's the real point of interest here. We've recently tested BMW's latest sports car, the intriguing i8. A hybrid homage to green motoring, it's about as close to the future as the supercar sector gets at present.
What the Huracan does, with its naturally aspirated petrol engine, is make you question if we should be quite so eager to let go of the past. After all, there's no replacement for displacement, so who needs a hybrid when you've got a pure-bred raging bull (that, of course, being the motif for the car firm set up by tractor maker Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963)?
Not that the Huracan isn't at the cutting edge in its own way. Underpinning it is a carbon-fibre and aluminium chassis, which it will share with the new Audi R8. The result is light weight with excellent crash protection.
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