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Tuesdays and Thursdays are not to that is simple — I had a we started from blank. Objectivity
my favourite days. Tuesday is still Lamborghini Countach poster on my be damned, Lamborghinis were
near the start of the week, while wall when I was in college, and it’s celebrated by Motoring. And I am
Thursday is not close enough to the still there back home. As a student glad someone thought of this story
end of the week. But when someone in a small town called Trivandrum, idea for the 21st anniversary issue.
unloads a Lamborghini from a flat- it was the closest I could get to a During my time as the editor of
bed truck and offers it to you for a supercar. But slowly, the poster this magazine, I drove my share of
drive, even a lame Tuesday becomes started getting under my skin. Lamborghinis, mostly Gallardos
special. The brief from Motoring I read everything about and the odd Murciélago. On this
World was simple — why did Lamborghini — the legend of Tuesday, I was going to drive a
Lamborghini get the special status Ferruccio meeting Enzo, the early Lambo after almost a decade, and I
when we launched this magazine 21 cars, the gorgeous Miura, the names had my doubts. Do I still have the
years ago? Why is it that all writers borrowed from bullfighting, and so skill set for a 640-bhp supercar?
and photographers of this magazine on. Around this time, I decided to But before that, allow me to define
have Lamborghini nicknames? do something about my passion a supercar in three simple terms.
I was supposed to explain this, for cars and decided to become a To begin with, it should look out of
as I was the editor back then, while motoring scribe. In short, I owed a the world. Secondly, it should sound
discovering the all-new Lamborghini lot to Lamborghini and obviously deadly. Last, but most importantly,
Huracán Evo Coupe. The answer that reflected in the magazine which it should instil fear in you when you

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