The Lamborghini Gallardo Police Interceptor

If wile driving along an Italian highway, you get spotted speeding by the police, lately your chances of managing to be away got a lot slimmer.
Not because you lack in driving skills, but because the Italian state police have just added the Lamborghini Gallardo to their fleet.

The Lamborghini Gallardo is powered by a 5 liters V10 engine, with top speed of 204 Mph, it cover the ¼ of a mile in less than 12 seconds, and thanks to the 500 Hp that it has under the hood, goes from 0 to 60 Mph in less than four seconds,
The Gallardo police interceptor is only used on highway, and mostly in situations when time is essential, in the Gallardo trunk, is located a kit for rescue equipment complete of a organ transplant box.

Another technological feature that other Lamborghini Gallardo’s does not have is a state of the art video system that transmits video images to the police headquarters.
Lamborghini donated the Lamborghini Gallardo police interceptor for the Italian state police 152nd anniversary, and the official cost of this car is $ 218.000.
That is why you will not be seeing too many of these around, but if you do, you’re better slow down.

During its inauguration tour of the city of Rome, it was literally surrounded by a storm of kids on vespas, begging the officer on the wheel to be arrested, and maybe I would have done the same thing if I were there, unfortunately, this Gallardo do not have a back seat.

The Lamborghini car company was funded in 1963 by Ferruccio Lamborghini, in the village of Sant’Agata Bolognese, just outside the city of Bologna, Italy.
Ferruccio Lamborghini originally owned a small tractor factory (Lamborghini Tractors), and his approach to the car business was sort of an accident, and began when he went to the Ferrari car factory to complain to Enzo Ferrari about the malfunctioning of the clutch of the Ferrari 250 GT that he owned.

Mr. Ferrari’s answer was that there was nothing wrong with his car’s clutches, and that he should stick to his tractors if he couldn’t drive automobiles.
Lamborghini did not liked the answer, went home, fixed the clutch by himself, and noticed that the clutch fitted on his Ferrari, was the same one fitted on his tractors.

That discovery made him realize that making cars was not that harder than making tractors, and that day Enzo Ferrari got himself his biggest competitor, even if he kept calling Lamborghini cars “luxury tractors”.
Lamborghini Car Factory is still located in the village where Ferruccio Lamborghini stated his adventure, and is now a subsidiary of the German car manufacturer AUDI.