Not long after Countach production began, Lamborghini started planning an uprated variant. The as-yet unnamed machine was to come with wider wheels, a tuned engine and a host of aggressive…
Read MoreDespite its handsome Bertone-designed body and a mechanical specification on a par with anything its rivals had to offer, sales of the Lamborghini Jarama proved disappointingly slow…
Read MoreWhen Chrysler took control of Automobili Lamborghini in April 1987, the Italian firm’s replacement for the legendary Countach was already at an advanced stage of development with production slated to…
Read MoreAlthough the company lost money on every 350 GT it sold, Automobili Lamborghini’s first product proved arguably the best Gran Turismo in its class. The Carrozzeria Touring-bodied 350 GT had an…
Read MoreWithin ten years of having taken over at Automobili Lamborghini, Audi had completely transformed the Italian company’s balance sheet. The last full year under the firm’s prior ownership (1997) had…
Read MoreAfter several false starts and a handful of tantalising concepts, Lamborghini finally launched a brand new junior model at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2003. The stunning four-wheel drive…
Read MoreFerruccio Lamborghini had famously refused to sanction a competition programme for his firm, and nor was he interested in building racing cars for customers; even the emergence of several highly…
Read MoreBy the late 1960s, Automobili Lamboghini had become most famous for its extraordinary looking models like the Miura and Espada. However, these wild Bertone designs were starkly at odds with…
Read MoreFerruccio Lamborghini’s reason for establishing his own auto maker was to build technically superior machinery to those vehicles on offer from Ferrari (with which he had reputedly been less than…
Read MoreAlthough Ferruccio Lamborghini established his auto maker to build the kind of exquisitely engineered but conservatively styled Grand Tourers that appealed to him, within a short space of…
Read MoreFerruccio Lamborghini originally created his car building facility to manufacture high performance Grand Tourers of the type that he personally liked to own. These were typically the kind of…
Read MoreLamborghini’s fourth generation flagship supercar, the Murcielago, was unveiled at a Sant’Agata press conference on September 8th 2001. It was then publicly introduced at the Frankfurt Motor…
Read MoreAutomobili Lamborghini’s well-documented problems throughout the 1970s culminated with the firm going into liquidation in February 1980. However, five months later, the marque began a…
Read MoreIn early 1987, Lamborghini started work on a replacement for the Jalpa. Although the Jalpa had only been launched in 1981, it was little more than a facelifted version of the Silhouette. The Silhouette had…
Read MoreOne year after the Miura’s sensational debut, another revolutionary Lamborghini was unveiled. The extraordinary new Marzal was a fully operational styling concept created to showcase how a four…
Read MoreThe one-off Urraco Rally was constructed in 1973 by Lamborghini’s chief test driver and development engineer, Bob Wallace. It was the third and last of Wallace’s factory-sanctioned hot…
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