Mark Smeyers

Back in 1986, Kevin Verduyn developed the Navajo, a concept car for Chrysler, but the project never got beyond the clay model. By refining some details, the Navajo was transformed into the Portofino, a show car to symbolize the Chrysler takeover of Lamborghini, the badges on the car show the raging bull inside the famous…

Bertone presented study 114, the new Lamborghini Bravo, on the 1974 Turin Auto show, it was designated to be the successor of the P300 Urraco, and used the same mechanicals. The Bravo was a very low-slung car, with several stylistic references to the Countach, the new styled wheels on the Bravo, among other things would…

During the late Nineties, a rather special Espada was offered for sale, this car was in fact an early 1970 Espada which was completely customized in Germany. The car was finished in a brilliant red paint over a white leather interior, but the most striking feature was actually the fact that this car was now…

In 1965, Zagato was considered a top design company, so it is easy to understand why they selected an equally noble chassis to design and build a new body on. This design became the Lamborghini 3500 GTZ, the new body was mounted on a 10 cm shortened chassis taken from the 350 GT, and was…

The Marco Polo was designed by Giugiaro and Ital Design, it was meant to be an evolution of the Lamborghini Espada, but it never even reached the stage of being built in metal. The car shown here is in fact a 1:1 wooden model. The Marco Polo was presented on December 3, 1982 and appeared…

Probably some of the most expensive Lamborghini models in existence today are these P538, in fact this is a car that wasn’t built at the Lamborghini factory but by one of the people who were there in the very early days, Mr. Giotto Bizzarrini himself. The latter designed the engine for the 350 GTV, and…