For all the talk of a subdued Detroit show, with automakers dispensing with flash and playing soberly to Washington, it was refreshing to see at least one manufacturer pay brave tribute to the auto show’s glitzier heritage.

The event was Monday’s Lamborghini fashion show, compete with many of the standard fashion-show trappings: thumping techno, gaggled photographers and of course models, in this case sporting clothing and accessories from the Lamborghini Arti Marca winter collection.

The four models, dressed in racing-style jackets, cargo pants and tan boots (Lamborghini makes boots!) gave it a game effort. They swung their hips — the women did, at least — and emitted professional pouts to the cameras’ collective pan, all while deftly vamping around and between the three Lamborghinis on display. (For those sticks-in-the-mud who believe a car show is about cars, there were a blue Murcielago LP 640 coupe; a white Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder; and a blue Gallardo LP 560-4 coupe, all painted in matte colors.)

But after little more than five minutes it was over; the music went silent and the models disappeared behind a black curtain. And we were still in Detroit, not Milan or Paris, in the midst of a deep recession.

As the cameras dispersed and the reporters drifted away to cover the next electric-vehicle intro, only a distressing thought remained: If fashion models can’t save us, who can?

Maybe they should look into used Crown Vics.

In Italy, where distracted driving and auto anarchy is a cultural thing, a few police officers patrol in Lamborghini Gallardos that make well over 500 horsepower. So it was only a matter of time before a driver — even one trained in using the supercar — racked one up.

Of course, it wasn’t his fault, according to The Guardian. The bruised and battered officer, cruising in Cremona, apparently tried to avoid a Seat Ibiza slowly emerging from a gas station. The Seat driver clipped the Lambo — no word of its speed at the time, but likely well under the 200-mile-per-hour maximum — and it rammed into a line of parked cars.

One of the stationary cars was hit so hard that it flipped and landed on the Gallardo’s roof.

The policeman and his passenger were injured, but not seriously, the newspaper said. The front end of the $200,000 police car was crushed.

A trio of Lamborghini LP560-4s were presented to the Italian state police last year to help contain speeders on the autostradas (more than 4,700 people died on Italy’s roads last year). The cars are tricked out in police-blue-and-white trim and equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant fridge (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator.

Italian motorists have a hard-earned and, in my experience, a much-deserved reputation for recklessness, general anarchy and driving well in excess of posted speed limits on the country’s highways, byways and autostradas.

It seems only fair that the Italian version of the highway patrol has been armed by Lamborghini with the world’s fastest police car. The automaker has just presented the latest version of its Gallardo LP560-4 sports car, all tricked out in law enforcement trim, to the Italian state police.

In addition to catching speeders, the 2009 Gallardo has been outfitted with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator.

This version of the Gallardo produces 560 horsepower and has a top speed of 203 miles an hour. It actually replaces an older, slower (just 180 m.p.h. or so) Gallardo that had seen some 87,000 miles of service around Rome since 2004. No doubt all of those miles were used on official police business, right?

Well, it seems the car did somehow manage to show up in New York City in 2005 for the Columbus Day parade. A third blue-light Gallardo has been patrolling in the Bologna region of north central Italy the past three years. It only has 62,000 miles on its odometer.

Informant’s tip: Watch out for the new Gallardo patrolling the A3 Autostrada between Salerno and Reggio Calabria in southern Italy.

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