Having celebrated its 25th and 30th anniversaries with special editions of the Countach and Diablo respectively, Automobili Lamborghini’s 40th year as a car maker was marked in a similar…
Read MoreAt the Paris Motor Show in September 1998, French coachbuilder Heuliez unveiled one of the most spectacular Lamborghini-based design concepts of the 20th century: the Pregunta. Based on…
Read MoreTo celebrate Lamborghini’s 30th anniversary as an auto maker and homologate an uprated Diablo for GT racing, the limited edition SE30 was unveiled in September 1993. Significantly lighter…
Read MoreLamborghini’s twelve cylinder offerings of the 1980s perfectly exemplified how the company had shifted from its founder’s ethos. Famously, Ferruccio Lamborghini had wanted to build the kind of…
Read MoreWhen Chrysler purchased Automobili Lamborghini from the Mimram Group in April 1987, a replacement for the long-running Countach seemed to be progressing well. However, Chrysler…
Read MoreFor the 1998 model year, Lamborghini introduced an updated version of the Diablo SV which ushered in several significant improvements. Chief among these was a new variable valve timing…
Read MoreAt the Paris Motor Show in October 1998, Lamborghini unveiled its new 1999 model year Diablos which featured arguably the most significant updates yet seen. Offered in SV and VT trim, these…
Read MoreHaving already commissioned an enlarged 4.8-litre engine for the Countach 5000 S which arrived in early 1982, the Mimram Group (which had rescued Lamborghini from administration in 1980)…
Read MoreHad Lamborghini’s favoured coachbuilder, Touring of Milan, not gotten into financial difficulties, the car builder from Sant’Agata could have travelled a very different path. As it transpired, design…
Read MoreAs the first model produced under control of the Volkswagen Audi Group (VAG), the Murcielago was an unqualified but wholly expected success. Thanks to its spectacular Luc Donckerwolke…
Read MoreFerruccio Lamborghini famously declared that his auto maker would play no official part in motor racing and remained true to his word until exiting the company in 1974. Under subsequent…
Read MoreA few months after Chrysler took control of Automobili Lamborghini from the Mimram Group, a subtly updated version of the formidable Countach Quattrovalvole was released. The most…
Read MoreAfter the small team of engineers that had secretly been working on a mid-engined design that would incorporate Lamborghini’s much-admired V12 engine finally showed it to the company…
Read MoreHaving been the first manufacturer to shoehorn a V12 motor into a mid-engined production car (the Miura), it was inevitable that Lamborghini would need to refine their pioneering machine as…
Read MoreLaunched at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1985, the Quattrovalvole was Lamborghini’s fourth major iteration of the Countach theme. Most significantly, it featured a newly enlarged 5.2-litre V12…
Read MoreEven though the early-to-mid 1990s was not a great time to be selling ultra expensive motor cars of any kind, Lamborghini managed to shift all 150 examples of the souped-up Diablo SE30. In light…
Read MoreFollowing the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987, speculators began to pile into alternative asset classes, one of which was high end classic and exotic motor cars. During the next…
Read MoreThe super tuner era of the 1970s and 80s certainly churned out some spectacular creations, but Lamborghini’s Countach was generally regarded as sufficiently extreme in OEM trim that few…
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