Raging bull

We seem to have become incredibly elitist on these pages. Last month we featured a Jaguar whose entire production run is 500 and only available in Europe, and now we’ve got this: an Italian supercar that costs $1.5 million, and that’s if you can get your hands on one of the 20 available. What the hell do we think this is? The Robb Report?
But there is something strangely appealing about a car that looks like a Trivial Pursuit piece, combining an impossible dental-chair driving position with razor-like angles and a plastic finish that has you looking for the “on” button. We are, when it comes to performance sports cars, pitifully juvenile.

The Reventon isn’t actually a new car per se, but rather an upgrade of the Murcielago LP640, and uses almost exactly the same innards and drivetrain. They have managed to give the 6.5-litre, V12 engine an additional 10bhp – not that much of a big deal when it already pushes out 640bhp – although they haven’t managed to boost the acceleration beyond the already F1-like 3.4 seconds for 0-100km/h. Top speed will be in excess of 340km/h, which is just about enough to excite the police as you drive from Dubai to Bahrain, via Saudi. In 47 minutes.
The exterior, though, is all new. The manufacturer claims it is based on the F22-Raptor fighter jet that the US Air Force are currently refusing to sell to the Israelis, but most of the design cues actually come from parent company Audi. Inside, there is a G-Metre that reads the forces exerted on the driver while accelerating.  So now you can actually measure your insanity...