Lamborghini Urraco Bob Wallace Replica – The Story & In Depth Guide More: Pictures I’m sure when you talk to someone about Lamborghini these days they will get visions of the Gallardo, which has been in production for ten years by now and it will be replaced by a brand new V10 model in 2014…
The final attempt at creating an entry level Lamborghini with a V8 engine was the Jalpa (pronounced ‘yawl-pa) another name given in true Lamborghini tradition, taken from a famous breed of fighting bulls, just like the Miura model name all those years ago. This new V8 model was based on the original Urraco, just like…
A first careful attempt at creating an off-road vehicle wearing the Raging Bull logo was the Cheetah back in 1977, although not built at the factory in Sant’Agata but in the United States, it was still the first of its kind to wear the Lamborghini logo, sadly this project was halted early on in the…
The Lamborghini V8 adventure was far from over with the Urraco P300 and P200 the very best was still to come by 1975 Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini SpA wasn’t at its best, the Urraco development and final production of this totally new V8 model drained a lot of funds from both Ferruccio himself and the company,…
It was made quite clear right from the start Ferruccio Lamborghini had absolutely no intention in taking any of his Raging Bull onto the race track, he didn’t want to spend money on preparing a competition model, do note however some private teams used cars like the Islero and Miura on the track, but with…
The first off-road car that was related to Lamborghini without being a tractor, was the 1977 Cheetah, starting out as an attempt to get a contract from the US military to buy it in large numbers, the Cheetah was designed by Rodney Pharis, president of US based defense contractor Mobility Technology International, or MTI, who…
