Highlights 5-litre V10, all-wheel drive with desirable manual transmission Very comprehensive service history Gorgeous Giallo Midas paintwork Recent new tyres, suspension and brakes Available for viewing at the PistonHeads Annual Service on 8 Aug Overview Certain ingredients go into the recipe for the perfect Lamborghini.

Power, noise, retina-searing colour, traffic-stopping looks and a taste for drama are all prerequisites for anything wearing the shield of the raging bull.

What you may not expect is a surprising amount of practicality, reliability, usability and high levels of fit and finish.

Yet this is precisely what you get with the Gallardo, mostly thanks to the fact that this was the first “baby Lambo” created under the watchful eyes of then new owners Audi.

So you get all the Italian visual histrionics, aural pizzazz and performance fizz, but with the reassuring clunk of a German engineered door and relatively worry-free driving.

It is very much the way things should be do...