MURCI SAKES! LP640 Roadster offers the same brain-blowing 640 hp but no roof!(News)

Byline: MARK VAUGHN

The Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 was already indefensibly outrageous enough and now this, the LP640 Roadster, with the same svelte body and 640-hp V12 engine but no roof! Mama Mia!

Yes, yes, it is still uncomfortable as hell and awkward to drive and costs more than your first house and your first divorce combined, but what it does do it does soooo magnifico that you don't even care about its flaws. It's like owning a supermodel that you can keep in the garage.

Drive it around Orange County, California, a place so shallow and trendy that such pointless extravagance is applauded, and you will see what it does to those in its path. Some love it with great lust in their hearts, some hate it with the fury of jealousy that burns in the bosoms of those who will drive no more than four cylinders their entire lives and know it, and some would be happy to simply lie down in its path and be run over again and again by such a gorgeous piece of mechanical passion.

But we were only taking photographs. There would be no track testing, no taking it to its claimed 204-mph top speed at Italy's Nardo high-speed circuit, no using it for luring strumpets. Just a one-afternoon drive and then right back it goes to Lamborghini Orange ...