The House of the Raging Bull has shown the first driveable prototype of the Lamborghini ‘Concept S’ at the Monterey Concorso Italiano and at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in the USA. The Lamborghini ‘Concept S’ design study premiered at this year’s Geneva Motorshow as an extreme and spectacular expression of the Lamborghini brand. It…
During the 1986 production year, Giulio Alfieri received a new redesign for the legendary Countach. The QuattroValvole was in production, but Ferrari was closing the gap very fast, so Lamborghini had to come with something new. The R&D department at Automobili Lamborghini SpA was urged to modify the Countach to keep it at the top…
Concurrent with the introduction of the 5000 QV in 1985, a US specification model was produced by the factory in order to meet United States federal safety and emissions standards. Changes to the American specification models included bulkier and more robust safety bumpers as the vehicle did not meet the American safety crash standards, and…
As we all know, the Diablo successor had a very impressive evolution, the initial development started back when Automobili Lamborghini SpA was still owned by Indonesians, who asked Zagato to design their new Lamborghini flagship, however, when Audi AG took over the company in July 1999, this ‘Canto’ design was rejected and they started again…
In 1984, Giulio Alfieri decided to modify the Countach into something new, but not radically different, a kind of transition between the current Countach and its real heir. This car became known as the Restyling prototype, not to be confused with the Countach Evoluzione however. He remedied several disadvantages of the original Countach design, like its…
Back in 1986, Kevin Verduyn developed the Navajo, a concept car for Chrysler, but the project never got beyond the clay model. By refining some details, the Navajo was transformed into the Portofino, a show car to symbolize the Chrysler takeover of Lamborghini, the badges on the car show the raging bull inside the famous…
Bertone presented study 114, the new Lamborghini Bravo, on the 1974 Turin Auto show, it was designated to be the successor of the P300 Urraco, and used the same mechanicals. The Bravo was a very low-slung car, with several stylistic references to the Countach, the new styled wheels on the Bravo, among other things would…
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…
