Back in 1970, Lamborghini unveiled their first-ever V8 powered car, as a cheaper alternative to the magnificent V12 Lamborghini Miura at that time, it took them two more years to get the first ‘baby Lamborghini’ ready for production, the Urraco P250 was sold from 1972 on as a competitor for the Dino 246 and the…
Nearly 40 years ago Lamborghini had two cars in production, the legendary Lamborghini Countach, of which the 50th-anniversary homage has just been unveiled during the Monterey Car Week as the limited edition Countach LPI 800-4, but they also had the Lamborghini Jalpa on the assembly line in Sant’Agata during the Eighties, from 1981 right up…
Lamborghini Jalpa P350 Specs & Performance General Type Jalpa P350 Years built March 1981 – 1988 Production 410 units Chassisnr. 12.001 – … Presentation March 1981 Geneva Auto Show Type of car Two-door, two seater with removable roof panel Designed by Bertone Built by Bertone Dimensions Wheelbase 2451 mm / 96.32 in Overall length 4330…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
