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…
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…
Automobili Lamborghini contacted Marcello Gandini to design the successor to the Lamborghini Countach, after the 25th Anniversary was created in a hurry, the Diablo was supposed to be ready by now, but design and testing took longer than expected and the Countach was redesigned to make it more up to date, hence the 25th Anniversary.…
On the 1992 Geneva Auto Show, Lamborghini presented a prototype of an open-top version of their flagship, the Diablo Roadster, naturally the roof was removed and the chassis was altered to cope with this, but there were also some other changes which would make their way to the Diablo and Diablo VT production model. Like…
During the opening of the 2003 edition of the Detroit Auto Show, Automobili Lamborghini SpA finally showed us a first impression of the Murciélago Roadster Concept. The car shown here is still a Concept prototype, but it does look great, and production is very possible, with only minor changes to this awesome design according to…
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…
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…
