 Italian
motorists have a hard-earned and, in my experience, a
much-deserved reputation for recklessness, general anarchy
and driving well in excess of posted speed limits on the
country’s highways, byways and autostradas.
It seems
only fair that the Italian version of the highway patrol has
been armed by Lamborghini with the world’s fastest police
car. The automaker has just presented the latest version of
its Gallardo LP560-4 sports car, all tricked out in law
enforcement trim, to the Italian state police.
In addition to catching speeders, the 2009
Gallardo has been outfitted with a video surveillance
camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the
luggage compartment) and defibrillator.
This version
of the Gallardo produces 560 horsepower and has a top speed
of 203 miles an hour. It actually replaces an older, slower
(just 180 m.p.h. or so) Gallardo that had seen some 87,000
miles of service around Rome since 2004.
Original Article: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/lambocop-stalks-italian-speeders/
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