Highland Perthshire has witnessed the spectacular sight of a herd of raging bulls crossing across the bridge at the mouth of Loch Tay and into the grounds of historic Taymouth Castle.
In a thunderous demonstration of exquisite automotive design, sheer brute force and immense horsepower, the listed landmark beside the village of Kenmore played host to a multi-million pound automotive invasion as an array of more than 30 Lamborghinis stretched their legs on some of Scotland’s best roads.
The supercar company brought their latest models north for a whistle-stop tour of stunning scenery, with Scots Lamborghini owners joining the high performance cavalcade on its route from Loch Lomond to Perthshire, returning to the capital where the privileged setting of Edinburgh Castle esplanade became the capital’s most expensive car park.
A-listed Taymouth Castle– which has witnessed significant investment in recent times – and Murthly Castle both featured on the drivers’ itinerary, and a spectacular video of the herd chasing each other through twisting lochside roads and across the near 250-year-old seven arch bridge has been captured in a stunning video of the tour.
Since being founded by Italian tractor designer Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Italian marque has been responsible for the creation some of the world’s most evocative and exciting sportscars.
The 1960s Miura is widely regarded as the first of the modern breed of mid-engined, high performance supercars and the unmistakable Countach was a fixture on the wall of every car-mad 1980s schoolboy.
Lamborghini’s identity has been heavily influenced by bullfighting from the outset, with a raging Miura bull as the company’s emblem.
Its cars have taken evocative names including the Espada – Spanish for sword – the Diablo in honour of the Duke of Veragua’s ferocious bull famous for fighting an epic battle against El Chicorro in Madrid in 1869 and Murcielago, the legendary beast who survived 28 sword strokes and saw its life spared in 1879.
The maker’s latest supercar, the Aventador, was named for a bull killed in a particularly gruesome fight, its left ear cut off and given to the matador as a token of good luck.
The £260,000 carbon-bodied Aventador LP 700-4 is a V12 monster capable of 217 miles per hour and 0-60 miles per hour in under three seconds.
