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.
On the 1997 Geneva Auto Show, Gigliato Design presented a new Sport car, the Aerosa. Automobili Lamborghini and Gigliato Design were to build this car as a Joint-venture between Japan and Europe. The engine was a special 4.8 Litre Ford Musting V8, pumping out enough horsepower for this small race car to arrive at 100…
The design of the Moroder has been presented by Marcello Gandini as the new Lamborghini Diablo prototype, but Chrysler thought this design to be too radical and had their design studio in the States cut the rough edges of the design, so the Diablo looks a little less brutal than this Cizeta. The Cizeta (a…
On a late October 1999 Auto Show in Tokyo, Ferdinand Piëch presented the fourth new Bugatti prototype, the Bugatti 18/4 Veyron, again a name taken from a famous official Bugatti driver of the past. This all new Veyron was still based on the Chiron chassis, which as we all know already was taken from a…
On the October 1999 IAA Auto Show in Frankfurt, Germany the latest Bugatti W18/3 Chiron was presented to the public for the first time. Current Bugatti owner VolksWagen, under the direct management of the by now notorious Dr. Ferdinand Piëch already presented two new Bugatti prototypes during 1999, the EB 218 sedan and the EB…
Bentley unveiled their latest show car at the 1999 Geneva Auto Show, the Bentley Hunaudières, a real low slung sports car. This prototype car was based on a Lamborghini Diablo VT chassis, later Bentley would develop a special chassis to cope with the 600 Bhp W-16 engine they plan to use in the production car.…
New Lamborghini Murciélago LP 670 R-SV for the FIA GT1 World Championship 2010 from REITER ENGINEERING. The new REITER Lamborghini LP670 R-SV can be unveiled to the public only a few months after the street version was officially presented in Geneva. The new Lamborghini GT1 race car is presented to the public at the 24-hours…
A Murciélago Spyder with 640 hp is certainly not a slow car. It sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 3.4 seconds, and you may count on a peak speed of about 340 km/h. Can this be further improved? Yes! Horsepower multiplicator IMSA from Brüggen offers an engine conversion kit for the convertible…
Only a very few Lamborghini Diablo VT were converted to Twin Turbo versions, actual numbers are not available but most sources state only 6 have been built originally. These cars were actually very expensive and a rather rare find if you would like to purchase one. Years ago, Platinum Motors Ca. had one for sale,…
