Watch: BJP MLA's wife crashes Lamborghini gifted by her husband (and other sports car mishaps)

How safe is your super luxury car on the unforgiving roads of Indian cities? Not very, as BJP MLA Narendra Mehta and his wife Suman discovered. The MLA from Mira-Bhayandar in Mumbai had gifted his wife a Lamborghini, a Rs 5.5 crore luxury sports car.

Unfortunately, on the car’s first drive in the Bhayandar area in Mumbai, it crashed (video above) into the city’s staple form of public transport, the auto rickshaw. Confirming that is was his wife was driving, Mehta told ANI that no one was hurt.

The Lamborghini incident is one of several that demonstrate how inhospitable India's city roads are to luxury cars. In 2015, a businessman was driving on Outer Ring Road in Hyderabad at speeds ranging from 150 to 200 kilometres per hour in his Porsche 911. That is, until he met with an almighty puddle in his path. He lost control and swerved into a divider and the fuel tank burst into flames on impact. Thankfully, the driver escaped.

An Audi R8 went up in flames in Mumbai during a supercar show in 2013. No casualties were reported. While Audi India blamed the fire on the owner modifying his car, he denied any wrongdoing.

The low suspension of these fast cars also means they are no match for India's oversized speed breakers.

The Bugatti Veyron, whose top speed of 430.9 kilometres per hour puts in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest car outside the race circuit, succumbed to a speedbreaker. How ironic.

And nothing can compare to the experience of driving a superfast car in rush hour traffic. What's faster than the BMW i8, the Lamborghini Aventador, or the Ferrari 458 Italia? Why, a Bengaluru Municipal Transport Corporation bus, of course. (Video here).