During the Nineties, when Megatech Inc. owned Automobili Lamborghini SpA, a design was made for the successor to the Jalpa. The P140 prototype was deemed too angular for the customer’s taste by then, while the Cala looked stunning and also made it into a rolling prototype, some other designs were only executed on paper. One…
During the relatively short period Automobili Lamborghini SpA was owned by Megatech Ltd, several new ideas emerged from the Far East, some better than others. One of these ‘marketing moves’ was the introduction of a Lamborghini powered Buggy as seen on this page, the idea was to create several body configurations based on the same…
This car had been spotted in high-speed tests on the Nardo circuit in Italy some time ago, while apparently they had a small problem with cooling down the big 6 Liter V-12 engine (the air scoops were terrifyingly big at the rear), the speed was phenomenal. A rumored top speed of about 350 Km/h had…
The Italian coach builder Pietro Frua created the only four-door Lamborghini in existence in 1978, the Frua Faena was created on a reinforced 1974 Espada Series II chassis (nr. 18224). It took Pietro Frua 8 months to create his four door Lamborghini, he stretched the standard Espada chassis 178 mm (7 in) to accommodate the…
A less well known special body on the 400 GT 2+2 chassis was built by Neri & Bonacini, who also created the first two chassis from which one was used to build the 35O GTV bodywork on. One of their other achievements was a very beautiful convertible, constructed on an old Ferrari 25O GT chassis…
During 1999, Lamborghini would continue to develop a successor for the famous LM002 off-roader, and the targa styled Jalpa. The Cala prototype would be completely redesigned and altered before entering production toward the end of 1999. The Jalpa successor would probably be powered by an Audi V-8 engine, according to an interview with Ferdinand Piech,…
In 1972, Doug Call of Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., ordered a very special car from a small shop in Bologna, AMS. This car is probably the nearest Lamborghini ever came to racing in these early years, the AMS was actually powered by a Miura V-12 engine. This engine was mounted on a tubular chassis…
On April 21, 1988 at the Turin Motor Show, the Genesis was first shown to the public, after some 30,000 man hours had been invested in it by Bertone. Marc Deschamps, chief designer of Centro Stile Bertone, mostly designed the Genesis and it looked like a sporty mini-van. However, the overall impression was one of…
