Carmakers like to crank out words like powerful and dynamic to describe their vehicles. Lamborghini prefers descriptors such as aggressive, extreme and forceful.
In fact, the carmaker says its New Gallardo LP 560-4 looks even more aggressive, extreme and forceful than its predecessor, although that's debatable - the Gallardo never looked touchy-feely.
Unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in September, the New Gallardo is now making a noise in Hong Kong.
Lamborghini says the model's facelift includes larger front air intakes. But these wind tunnels are now masked by triangular and trapezoidal sculpting, in a neat exercise in geometry. At the rear, more triangles and a trapezoid replace the previous straight, horizontal lines.
It's a striking makeover of this flying wedge, and the New Gallardo LP 560-4 (an engine output of 560PS, or 552hp, and four by four drivetrain) looks much less raw and more sophisticated. But it still screams "Look at me!" and is still noisy enough to wake the dead.
The nips and tucks are more or less cosmetic and don't alter the car's already high performance. You get the same 5.2-litre, 10-cylinder engine that produces 540 Nm of torque to catapult the car from zero to 100km/h in 3.7 seconds. The top speed is 325km/h. It's also the same solid suspension that channels the smallest bumps to the driver, giving the feeling of riding a supersonic go-kart.