During 2004 there was unfortunately no Viva Italia event, but in 2005 this very interesting event was back … with a large collection of various Lamborghinis present. A lot of cars ‘made in Italy’ made their impression during the 2005 edition of Viva Italia, among them an interesting selection of cars made at the famous…
The first ‘new’ model to emerge from Sant’Agata since the Audi take-over was an SV version of the Diablo Roadster, it would have been commercialized to make open-top driving a Lamborghini a little more available to the public. The SV Roadster was set to be sold at a lower price than the Diablo VT Roadster,…
The second Club Special was held on April 24 on the famous Dutch circuit at Zandvoort. Naturally the Lamborghini Club Nederland was again present, fortunately the weather cleared out fabulously, so a lot of cars awoke from their ‘sleep’ during the winter and were driven to the circuit. Next to about 10 Lamborghinis and a…
The Lamborghini Miura, the most famous high-performance car ever to be produced in Italy, is about to celebrate its 40th birthday. Automobili Lamborghini will begin the official celebrations of this anniversary at the Techno Classica 2005 in Essen, Germany (7th-10th of April). The celebrations will continue throughout 2006 with a series of events involving The…
Max Bobnar, an authorized Automobili Lamborghini SpA dealer for Switzerland had his personal Countach LP5000 S modified by Franz Albert, an Austria based engineer who installed two small turbo’s on the 5.0 Liter V-12 engine. These turbo pumped up the horsepower to a healthy 520 Bhp at 6500 rpm, with this engine installed the Countach…
Franco Sbarro, a Swiss based car designer modified a few Countach QV models into his very special Sbarro Special Countach. I have found several replica’s lately, but the real thing does exist. According to the Sbarro Design Studio’s, Franco built only eight cars, a bright red one and a white metallic Countach, both of them…
The German based Ferrari concession holder, Walter Koenig used to transform Ferrari’s Boxer into a real road-ready race car. After he did a few conversions on these Ferrari’s and on some Porsche Turbo’s, he tried something a little different and less extremely restyled, the 1983 Countach LP500 S on this page. The Candy Apple (r)…
