On the 1965 Turin Auto Show, the public could admire a very special 350 GT, Touring had designed and built a convertible along the same lines as the closed model and designated it the 350 GTS (or 350 GT Spyder, as it was sometimes called). Only two were originally built, one was displayed on the…
Ferruccio Lamborghini unveiled the distinctively angular 350 GTV on October 29, 1963, at his newly built factory in Sant’Agata and later at the Turin Motor Show. This prototype car, although drawing a lot of attention, was evidently not ready for the market. Issues such as the steering wheel being too close to the seats, lack…
A first careful attempt at creating an off-road vehicle wearing the Raging Bull logo was the Cheetah back in 1977, although not built at the factory in Sant’Agata but in the United States, it was still the first of its kind to wear the Lamborghini logo, sadly this project was halted early on in the…
It was made quite clear right from the start Ferruccio Lamborghini had absolutely no intention in taking any of his Raging Bull onto the race track, he didn’t want to spend money on preparing a competition model, do note however some private teams used cars like the Islero and Miura on the track, but with…
The first off-road car that was related to Lamborghini without being a tractor, was the 1977 Cheetah, starting out as an attempt to get a contract from the US military to buy it in large numbers, the Cheetah was designed by Rodney Pharis, president of US based defense contractor Mobility Technology International, or MTI, who…
The idea of a multi-purpose Lamborghini was taken one step further with the enormous LM-004. The car was built around the same chassis as the LMA-002, but went much further, the engine wasn’t the ‘normal’ 4754 cc unit (factory designation number L 503), but an all new 7.0-Litre one. This new engine was designed by Alfrieri…
The impressive Lamborghini LM002 V12 off road mammoth never managed to reach its full potential, initially it was developed for military use as the Cheetah, but that project didn’t work out quite the way Lamborghini intended it things went from bad to worse and the company almost collapsed but the Raging Bull managed to survive…
The LMA-002 (with the ‘A’ for Antiore) was the logical follow up of the LM-001, because on the latter one, the engine was in the back, its road holding was terrible, but on the LMA-002 the engine was moved to the front. This time it was a Lamborghini V-12, very much like the unit used…
After the Cheetah was sent back to the United States in late 1977 the option of adding an off-road model to the lineup at Lamborghini kept lurking in the back of their heads, and three years later, in 1981 the Geneva Auto Show was the scene for an evolution of the idea in the shape…
In early 1966 the Lamborghini 350 GT could be ordered with a new 4-liter L400 engine as an option, resulting in the 400 GT model, sometimes also designated as the ‘interim’ version or the ‘400 GT 2 Posti’, note that this is a different model from the later 400 GT 2+2 that showed a modified…
In 1965, Zagato was considered a top design company, so it is easy to understand why they selected an equally noble chassis to design and build a new body on. This design became the Lamborghini 3500 GTZ, the new body was mounted on a 10 cm shortened chassis taken from the 350 GT, and was…
