In 1965, Zagato was considered a top design company, so it is easy to understand why they selected an equally noble chassis to design and build a new body on. This design became the Lamborghini 3500 GTZ, the new body was mounted on a 10 cm shortened chassis taken from the 350 GT, and was…
The Marco Polo was designed by Giugiaro and Ital Design, it was meant to be an evolution of the Lamborghini Espada, but it never even reached the stage of being built in metal. The car shown here is in fact a 1:1 wooden model. The Marco Polo was presented on December 3, 1982 and appeared…
Probably some of the most expensive Lamborghini models in existence today are these P538, in fact this is a car that wasn’t built at the Lamborghini factory but by one of the people who were there in the very early days, Mr. Giotto Bizzarrini himself. The latter designed the engine for the 350 GTV, and…
On the 1966 Turin Auto Show, Touring displayed their latest car, the Flying Star II, this was to be the last car completed by this prestigious firm whose contributions to car design in the last 40 years can’t surely be forgotten. Touring designed and built the Lamborghini 350GT (see entry), the company was founded by…
A very special Lamborghini Urraco was found in Switzerland by Raymond Stofer, nothing much was known about this specific Lamborghini, only that is was based on a P250 S Urraco. This car has recently been restored and is now finished in black instead of the original white, the visual impact of this special Urraco was…
The first completely new Lamborghini would be the Lamborghini Stella, a direct competitor to the replacement for the Ferrari F360 Modena, which will be ready by springtime 2000. The Lamborghini Stella should be presented at the October 2000 Paris Auto Show, if the press release is correct of course, most likely the production and presentation…
During the ownership of Automobili Lamborghini SpA by the Indonesian group, a study was made to put the gargantuan LM002 off road Lamborghini back into production. It was known that the LM002 had his flaws but it still was a steady low volume seller, therefore a United Kingdom based company was contacted to design a…
During the late Nineties, a rather special Urraco was offered for sale, this car dated from 1974, but the bodywork looked like the later Silhouette, but without the targa-roof configuration. Nothing much is known about this specific Lamborghini, only that is was based on a P250 Urraco, the original 2.5-Liter engine was however replaced by…
