First of the Line

The orange bonnet fills the frame head-on, one long highlight running down its crown to a black plaque where gold script spells Lamborghini, a small triangular crest rising from the plaque's top edge and a bright screw set at either rounded end. Below it the grille opens in two panels of thin dark bars, divided by a raised orange rib that tapers to a point at top and bottom. Sky-blue castings carry the machine at the edges: the bolted nose piece with its round medallion, the axle beam running out of the bottom corners, the stalks holding two headlamps whose dark rims enclose fluted clear lense…