Blazing Bull: UK Lambo bursts into flames
Images courtesy of MEN 
07 July 2009
Holy smoke! Passers-by in
The bright orange Lambo pulled up outside a busy nightclub with smoke billowing from its engine according to eye witnesses. Two men were reported to have jumped out of the car before the car burst into flames.
The fire gutted the 2005 Gallardo – worth around £75,000 – in just four minutes and was destroyed before firefighters could arrive.
View more images of the shocking Gallardo blaze
Bar manager, Colin Jeffery who saw the fireball told the Peterborough Evening Telegraph: "It was engulfed in flames and was there were loud popping noises all over the place as the windows and the tyres exploded. There was no end of people gathered round, something like 150 people. A lot of them were stood there filming it on their mobile phones.
"It's nothing new to see a car on fire but to see a Lamborghini in flames is something else altogether. It was an unbelievable sight, to be honest. Quite surreal."
It took fire fighters around 20 minutes to damp the supercar inferno, and police are reported to have taken the car away for investigation on how the blaze occurred.
This is the latest in a line of supercars bursting into flames. Last month we reported on another Gallardo being razed to the ground in Greece, and a Ferrari Enzo being the victim of apparent spontaneous combustion in
The most valuable supercar to go up in smoke was a McLaren F1 – which was insured for £1.8m. It was engulfed in flames in
But perhaps the most heartbreaking fireball was the case of the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti which ignited into flames just 30 minutes after the 22 year old owner bought it.
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