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Lamborghini Reventón dash
Hypercars are meant to be silly, that’s the point, and Lamborghini have always been more
ostentatious than most when it comes to design. These guys don’t mess about, if there’s an obtuse
angle or a jarring juxtaposition of lines to throw in, they’ll do it. But it has to be said that when the
limited-run Reventón appeared in 2007, we could only conclude that the design team had all got
drunk and watched Top Gun. This Murciélago-based special seemed to think that it actually was
a fighter plane, and the dash was the wackiest part. A trio of TFT liquid crystal displays sit inside
a carbon-shelled block milled from an aluminium billet, and the digital readouts mimic those of
military aircraft, which essentially makes them completely unreadable. A masterpiece of style over
substance, they look absolutely awesome, yet are utterly stupid. Presumably they imagined that
you’d be driving so fast it’d be pointless looking at the dials anyway.Audi B7 RS4 wingbacks
You know a product has really touched a nerve with the public consciousness when it hits the
headlines because people are stealing it to order. Owners of B7-generation Audi RS4s tend to have
military-grade security these days, because there was a time when it was perfectly possible that
you’d step out of your house one day and find that your pride and joy didn’t have any front seats
any more. Why? Well, two reasons. Firstly, they’re heinously expensive – around five years ago
the newswires were buzzing with stories of RS4s that had been written off by insurers because
dealers were quoting £19,000 to replace the seats. (The light-fingered can stand down though,
this isn’t really the case any more. Please don’t go out and steal someone’s chairs, that’s a terrible
thing to do.) And secondly – they’re just phenomenal seats. Audi (and Recaro) got these so right- incredibly comfortable on long journeys, yet supremely supportive in enthusiastic driving, and
they look awesome too. No wonder so many people cite these as their favourite OEM seats without
hesitation. There are few finer places to let out secret farts of joy on twisty roads.