Mark Smeyers

No Lamborghini had ever officially raced under their name, several private parties had entered Lamborghini’s in races, but never with any success though. In 1985, David Jolliffe, the Lamborghini importer in Britain, which was Portman, decided to use a modified Countach LP5000S for racing in Group B, but the Countach wasn’t built in sufficient numbers…

During the 1986 production year, Giulio Alfieri received a new redesign for the legendary Countach. The QuattroValvole was in production, but Ferrari was closing the gap very fast, so Lamborghini had to come with something new. The R&D department at Automobili Lamborghini SpA was urged to modify the Countach to keep it at the top…

This is probably the strangest looking Countach ever, it looks as if it left the factory before it got painted or upholstered, this is the Evoluzione, a mobile test-bed for new ideas. The Evoluzione was designed and built in 1987 under the direction of Horacio Pagani, by the newly-formed ‘Composites Department’, they decided to change…

Concurrent with the introduction of the 5000 QV in 1985, a US specification model was produced by the factory in order to meet United States federal safety and emissions standards. Changes to the American specification models included bulkier and more robust safety bumpers as the vehicle did not meet the American safety crash standards, and…

In early 1976, the Lamborghini factory made two very special Countach LP400’s, one for Walter Wolf, this one is described on another page on this site, but the second they built had chassis nr. 1.120.222. This one was built the same way as the second Walter Wolf special, but didn’t use the 5.0 Liter engine…

Automobili Lamborghini contacted Marcello Gandini to design the successor to the Lamborghini Countach, after the 25th Anniversary was created in a hurry, the Diablo was supposed to be ready by now, but design and testing took longer than expected and the Countach was redesigned to make it more up to date, hence the 25th Anniversary.…