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If you don’t buy one, at least watch the crashes on the web

Lamborghini Huracan LP 610-4, £180,720

IN THE olden days, when Raymond Baxter was on the television and you had to have two O-levels to be a policeman, a family saloon took about 20 seconds to reach 60 miles per hour, which then turned out to be its top speed. Whereas a supercar such as the Ferrari 308 GTB would get to 60mph in a dizzying 6.7 seconds and then keep on accelerating all the way to an almost unbelievable 155mph.

Today, however, family saloon cars can do 155mph, and so to keep ahead of the pack, supercars are now so fast that if you keep your foot hard down on the throttle in second, third or fourth gear for more than about three seconds you