Before the design of the Piranha was modified to become the new Lamborghini Espada four-seater, Bertone had a more challenging concept ready for this all-new Lamborghini, using gull-wing doors as seen on the Marzal prototype, the first Espada concept looked very futuristic. But Ferruccio Lamborghini really disliked the glass panels in the lower parts of…
Well, Mr Ferdinand Piëch decided the 1998 Canto prototype was not up to the Lamborghini standards like the Diablo and the legendary Countach and Miura, so he halted the project. But in February 1999, the Lamborghini Design facility came up with a slightly modified Canto proposal. The complete rear part of the Lamborghini was redesigned,…
The internal number P140 was used for the successor of the Jalpa, whose production had been halted in 1988. The P140, probably named ‘Cala’, was designed with one goal in mind, superior styling, the engine and chassis were made inferior to the exterior styling of this car. At that time, the German and Japanese cars…
On the 1971 Geneva Auto Show Lamborghini introduced the mind-blowing Countach, the full denomination was LP 500 Countach, where the LP stood for Longitudinale Posteriore 5000 cc, and the 5-Liter engine was put longitudinally in the back. This new 5-Liter engine, which was built using a lot of magnesium even for the gearbox and differential,…
Automobili Lamborghini eagerly begins the New Year with the much anticipated unveiling of the Lamborghini Miura Concept, a modern interpretation of the Lamborghini Miura. Currently celebrating its fortieth anniversary, the Miura was originally designed by Marcello Gandini and first publicly presented at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show by Ferruccio Lamborghini and Nuccio Bertone. The new…
The long awaited Gallardo Spider will be shown to the public at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, but naturally there has been a lot of talk about this car over the previous months, ever since the Gallardo V10 was introduced, the idea of an open version was alive. And it is finally starting to…
During the Jalpa production, Automobili Lamborghini SpA became aware that a full convertible model would actually sell better than the Targa-style Jalpa they now offered, so Bertone was to design and build a prototype based on the Jalpa chassis which became the Athon, this special prototype didn’t even have a roof designed for it, but…
Automobili Lamborghini SpA asked Bertone to design the new ‘small’ Lamborghini, the V-8 powered Urraco. The Bertone design studio came up with two rather similar looking running prototypes, the first used a strange headlight configuration while the second was more conventional with pop-up headlights and a small integrated rear spoiler and a big air extractor…
The Urraco was put into production, but design faults and poor workmanship prevented the P250 to obtain the success the car deserved. In a desperate effort to boost sales of the Urraco, Bertone was contacted to design an open top version of the V-8. Bertone came up with two preliminary drawings which are shown here, the…
In 1979 Lamborghini already had an open top V8 car on the market, the beautiful Silhouette with those magnificent ‘telephone dial’ wheels that are worth their weight in gold these days but there was one major hurdle Lamborghini just didn’t manage to overcome export to the United States, officially the Silhouette was never imported into…
