Bertone created the most spectacular Lamborghini’s ever, the Miura, the Espada and the Countach, but the Bertone designers also created a few ‘special’ Lamborghini’s, the Bravo was one of them and the Athon which was presented on the 1980 Turin Motor Show, was the next. It was designed by Marc Deschamps, who became Marcello Gandini’s…
Back in the mid-Eighties the 255hp V8 powered Lamborghini Jalpa offered open top driving at about half the price of the then current flagship, the Countach LP500S, so the smaller Jalpa offered all the joys of owning a real Lamborghini for a relatively reasonable amount of money, today this would come down to a Gallardo…
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…
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…
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 Nineties, when Megatech Inc. owned Automobili Lamborghini SpA, a design was made for the successor to the Jalpa. The P140 prototype was deemed too angular for the customer’s taste by then, while the Cala looked stunning and also made it into a rolling prototype, some other designs were only executed on paper. One…
