1999 Lamborghini Diablo SV

The Diablo was the first Lamborghini that would do 200 mph, and SV was the version that took things away rather than adding them - rear-wheel drive only, less equipment, more power. A V12 behind your head, scissor doors, a gearchange you have to mean, and effectively nothing electronic between your right foot and the rear tyres.

It's the only car in this library with visible age, and that changes the brief. Modern supercars are filmed to look new. A Diablo is more interesting when the film admits it's a quarter of a century old - the panel gaps, the period switchgear, an interior that looks like a 1990s hi-fi. Grade it like a 2026 car and you flatten the exact thing worth watching.

The shape does more work than the paint here. The Diablo is a wedge, almost entirely straight lines in profile, so it reads instantly at any size - including on a phone at arm's length. Straight lines also carry a single hard highlight cleanly, which is the one thing a fixed overhead rig is genuinely good at.