Lamborghini Faqs

The Lamborghini Jalpa was the successor to the Lamborghini Silhouette. On the 1981 Geneva Auto Show a prototype was unveiled with a rear spoiler installed but it wasn’t installed on the actual production types.

The dashboard used a new kind of box-shaped instrumentation, on the early Jalpa’s a steering wheel similar to the Silhouette’s was used, later a bigger, triangular shaped one was installed. New seats were used for the Jalpa, now with fully adjustable backrests.
 
The early production cars used black bumpers to the front and the rear, the side air intakes for the engine were also finished in black, at the rear the taillights from the Silhouette were used.

On the 1966 Turin Auto Show, Touring displayed their latest car, the Flying Star II, this was to be the last car completed by this prestigious firm whose contributions to car design in the last 40 years will not easily be forgotten.  Touring designed and built the Lamborghini 350GT, the company was founded by Felice Bianchi Anderloni in 1926, but in 1966 it all came to an end, on that year’s Turin Auto Show they prepared two new cars; a Fiat 124 convertible, and the Flying Star II, which, just like the 3500 GTZ, was mounted on a 10 cm shortened chassis.

Krohn-Barbour Racing has made the decision not to enter its two Lamborghini Murciélago R-GTs in the next round of the American Le Mans Series, the season finale at Laguna Seca, California, on October 14-16.

Krohn-Barbour Racing was established this year by successful businessman Tracy Krohn and sports car legend Dick Barbour, and has contested most rounds of the ALMS since taking possession of the two Lamborghinis in mid-June, shortly before the second of the series’ nine races. The team’s two cars have been driven by David Brabham/Peter Kox and Tracy Krohn/Scott Maxwell.

The Lamborghini Countach LP500 (Longitudinal Posterior 5 Litre) appeared for the first time in March 1971 at the Geneva show. The car probably received its name before the show when someone at Bertone’s Grugliasco plant saw it and exclaimed “Countach” (pronounced “COON-tahsh” or “CUN-touch”, Italians use both pronunciations). The expression is from a local Piemontese dialect that seems difficult to translate without offending someone. It is the sort of thing a northern Italian male might say to express appreciation of a particularly attractive female.

Built in a tiny series of just ten cars, the Versace LP640 is more a plug for Lamborghini in Milan and Versace in Paris than an actual attempt at a meaningful model. Upgrades are limited to interior fittings, custom luggage and styling touches.

Immediately noticeable is the monochromatic color scheme which limits the available exterior paint options to just Isis White or Aldebaran Black. The theme is continued through to the interior with high-contrast black and white seats.