A lot of work still had to be done before the Countach could go into even limited production. The show car was only a prototype and the engine that was installed into it blew up on the first tests, the car could be saved but the engine needed too much work to be made reliable…
When the Gallardo SE was introduced a while ago, people asked themselves why this Special Edition would be interesting check out the sales figures, they were sold out very quickly, so it is safe to say the Gallardo SE was a success, available in various pre-defined colors, each combined with a color coded interior and…
In June 1985, Automobili Lamborghini decided it was time to start thinking about a replacement for their legendary Countach; it would take the Lamborghini development team another five years to complete the new super car, the Diablo. The Diablo was presented to the public on January 21. 1990, at the Hotel de Paris in Monte…
Lamborghini will present the Gallardo Superleggera at Geneva. The latest news from Sant’Agata just reached us, Automobili Lamborghini SpA will display their latest evolution of the Gallardo at the 2007 Geneva Auto Show, the Gallardo Superleggera, a car that was created for the most demanding customer. Be removing about 100 Kg from the original Gallardo…
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…
A few days before the 2006 edition of the famous Geneva Auto Show would open it’s doors, Automobili Lamborghini SpA made a rather unexpected announcement, they would introduce the next step in the Murciélago evolution; the LP640 model. The LP640 name goes back to the days of the legendary Countach, where LP stood for ‘Longitudinale…
On the 2001 edition of the famous Geneva Auto Show the final evolution of the impressive Diablo 6.0 Liter was introduced to celebrate the entry of the Diablo into the third Millennium, the new Diablo VT 6.0 Special Edition. The Diablo 6.0 Special Edition was created to again show that Lamborghini made cars with extreme…
Finally the long awaited Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder was unveiled to the public during the 2005 IAA in Frankfurt, and like the March Auto Show in Geneva, all cars on the floor were finished in Balloon White, a special new pearl metallic shade of white. But more impressively was a black metallic Spyder with a contrasting…
It has been a rather long wait between the presentation of the Concept Car in Detroit during the 2003 Auto Show and the introduction of the actual production model for the Murciélago Roadster in 2004, people were standing in line to order this latest ‘open top’ offering from Sant’Agata. Some were worried that the cutting…
When Audi AG took over the company they naturally installed their own designers to develop the successor to the successful Diablo. A worthy heir would be difficult if not impossible to create, but time was pressing, and the original design of the Diablo had not changed too much over nearly ten years. So first thing,…
