We review the Lamborghini Huracan Spyder from price to economy and all its features

AND now for today’s forecast.

Expect outbreaks of heavy and persistent acceleration all day across much of the country, causing Huracan winds, gusts up to 201mph, wet patches and widespread warmth and sunshine from everyone that sees it.

This, my friends, is the £205,000 Lamborghini Huracan Spyder — lightning-fast, strokingly beautiful and rarer than rocking-horse poo.

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I’ll shower you with some figures first.

It stands just 46in high.

Those 15in brake discs are as big as the WHEELS on a Ford Fiesta.

Rarer than rocking-horse poo

That storm-grey paint job is £8,750.

And that wild 5.2-litre V10 strapped to your backside is a force of nature, rocketing from 0-62 in 3.4 seconds and a licence-shredding 0-124mph in 10.2.

As for the noise? O-M-G. It’s awesome.

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There are NO turbos at play here. Oh no. This is a proper, normally aspirated crowd-pleasing supercar that shrieks like an unpleasant medical procedure, all the way up to 8,700rpm.

Driving roof-down just adds to the theatre.

But even roof-up in the rain, you can open the tiny letterbox-shaped rear window to soak up the mechanical symphony.

You could save yourself a kidney and buy an Audi R8 instead

I will say at this point that you could save yourself a kidney and buy an Audi R8 instead. That has the same 610hp engine and the same four-wheel-drive system and it’s a bloody brilliant car.

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But this is a Huracan. It’s Italian, it looks meaner and it has more drama.

Ignore the girls for a moment and admire those sharp, sculpted edges, Y-shaped LEDs and that slatted engine hood. It’s a work of art.

Drive a Huracan anywhere and traffic pulls over like the parting of the Red Sea.

Park it anywhere and you are immediately surrounded by drooling Snapchat soldiers.
It goes down a storm. Everywhere.

Now for a text from my mate Alex: “Following a Clio earlier and the silly t*** nigh-on did an emergency stop to look at the Batmobile!”

Traffic pulls over like the parting of the Red Sea

That about sums it up.

It’s stealthy inside too, with a red flick-up fighter-jet-style switch covering the starter button.

There are no clunky storks for the lights, indicators or wipers, just buttons on the steering wheel.

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And there’s a little magic red Strada/Sport/Corsa switch too. In English, that’s sightseeing/sport/full-on track mode. I tried them all. They’re just different degrees of madness.

Behind the tiller is a digital screen dominated by a giant virtual rev counter. Very cool. But those big metal paddle shifts remind you this is an extreme machine, not a PlayStation.
Just remember to press the “front lift” button (a £4,500 extra) to crawl over those ghastly speed humps.

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What a toy. Bravo. Bravo.

SUMMARY: Hot, cool, mind-blowing.