Mark is the enthusiast site, Lamborghini is his passion, collecting books and scale model cars on the Sant'Agata company for decades, he has been able to visit the Lamborghini factory several times already.
When Lamborghini showed their Diablo Roadster prototype on the 1992 Geneva Auto Show, orders began flowing in, but suddenly Lamborghini decided not to built this convertible Diablo. The customers who already placed their order were refunded, but this wasn’t taken for granted by all of them. Some customers turned to Walter Koenig, a German based…
Vittorio Strosek found the original Diablo to be too subtle, so he set out to create a more balanced design he built for some extremely wealthy customers. He removed the front and rear bumper of the Diablo and installed his redesigned units which were much rounder than the originals, the front turn signals were replaced…
In 1999, a German based tuner presented a rather special Diablo, based on the SV-version available from the factory, they created a true race car for road use, much like the Diablo GT which would be presented later by Automobili Lamborghini SpA. The most visible change at the front was the use of small, fixed…
During 1996, Automobili Lamborghini SpA contacted SAT in France to design and build a race version of the Diablo to be able to compete in the GT championships, much like the Porsche GT1 from 1997, this was a car that needed to be based on a production car, but with a completely race oriented setup.…
In a history making sale, the one-off Lamborghini Bertone Miura Roadster been purchased by an American collector. Lamborghini’s Miura is considered the most beautiful and arguably most desirable post-war sports car built for the road. A mere 762 Miuras were produced between 1967 and 1973. The ultimate specification P400SV now commands prices of up to…
We’ve already seen the Murciélago Roadster by Hamann Motorsport GmbH a while ago, but recently this high profile tuner showed us their latest creation, now based on the magnificent Murciélago LP640. The bodywork seen on this stunning white flagship from the House of the Raging Bull doesn’t seem to be modified, I guess Hamann didn’t…
The recent Lamborghini Gallardo wasn’t the first ‘entry level’ Lamborghini made at Sant’Agata, in the early Seventies the late Ferruccio Lamborghini already decided it was time to add a smaller model to the line-up that until then only consisted of V12 engine cars, it was time to add a V8 powered model to be able…
Automobili Lamborghini starts the year with production record of five thousandth Gallardo Automobili Lamborghini has already achieved a new production record in the first month of 2007: Lamborghini Gallardo number 5000 has rolled off the production line at the house of Sant’Agata Bolognese. This remarkable achievement builds on the previous production record realised at the…
