A Bull on Wheels

The new Lamborghini is a menacing machine

Drive Lamborghini's latest fantasy car, the MurciƩlago roadster, and you'd be wise to leave the roof at home. For starters, you'll want to be seen in a vehicle that looks like a Cubist sculpture: a cross between a B-2 Stealth bomber and the Batmobile. And you don't want to be seen wrestling with the roof, since it's little more than an erector set with a fabric tarp and may require an engineering degree to dismantle. If you hit 100 m.p.h., Lamborghini warns, the roof might blow off--and how embarrassing would that be, losing your top in a $320,000 car?

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