MOTORING: Modena Mafia outwits the new kids on the block Italy is fighting to retain supremacy in the supercar stakes in the face of a new breed of expensive rivals from elsewhere in Europe

The Independent - London | May 10, 2003| | Copyright

THE POLICE outriders arrive first, blue lights flashing, packing pistols, dark glasses and black leather boots. For a moment the noise from their Ducatis drowns out the ensuing convoy, but not for long. As the crowd moves aside - four and five deep in places, grins as wide as local boy Pavarotti's waistband - a sound like the choirs of heaven and the demons of hell united in a chorus of gravel gargling reverberates across the cobbles, bouncing off the ornate, marbled walls of the Romanesque cathedral overlooking the Piazza Grande.

A lime green Lamborghini Miura is first to slink across the ...

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