NEW YORK TIMES: BEHIND THE WHEEL 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo: New Direction for an Italian Job By NORMAN MAYERSOHN Date Posted 11-07-2003 At a time when luxury brands are leveraging their reputations to ever-higher price levels - as evidence, look no further than Mercedes-Benz adding the Maybach line of ultraluxury sedans starting at more that $300,000 - the arrival of the new Gallardo from Lamborghini might be seen as a contrarian move by this small-scale, but legendary, maker of exotic sports cars. No one doubts that Lamborghini, based in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, can craft strikingly bold machines that simultaneously stop...
