At the Turin motor show, the Italian car maker pulled the wraps off the Miura PS, which showcased newly added power windows, optional air conditioning, bright chrome trim around external windows and power up to bhp at rpm.
In total, Miuras were made. In , the replacement for the GT arrived in the form of the Lamborghini Islero. Named after a Miura bull which killed famed matador Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, it was essentially a rebody of the GT, but was powered by a bhp 3. Even though Ferruccio Lamborghini believed the car represented a well-developed Gran Turismo product, it failed to attract buyers with only units sold between and The following year, design house Bertone persuaded Lamborghini to allow them to design a brand new four-seater.
A total of 1, Espadas were built, making it the most successful Lamborghini model at the time. Another Marcello Gandini-designed car, the Jarama was built on a shortened platform of the Espada and was available in two flavours — a bhp GT and bhp GTS , both with the familiar cc V12 unit shoehorned in the nose. The first model leaving the production line in , the Urraco was a more affordable alternative to the contemporary Ferrari Dino and Maserati Merak.
Three versions were available — the entry-level P with a bhp 2. Top speeds ranged from mph to mph. From until , examples rolled off the production line. Having severed all connections with the cars and tractors that bore his name, Lamborghini retired to an estate in the province of Perugia in central Italy, where he would remain until his death in In the Italian car manufacturer unleashed the eye-popping Lamborghini Countach.
Yet another Marcello Gandini design, the Countach was initially powered by the traditional cc Lamborghini engine kicking out bhp, which remained until when the Countach LPS was launched.
Equipped with a 4. Advertisement Back to top Three years later, the engine was improved again — bored and stroked to 5. Power was now up to bhp with mph taken care of in 4. Mechanically, it was very similar to the QV but sported much-changed styling. Carrying on where the Urraco left off, the Lamborghini Jalpa was launched in Being much less expensive than the Countach and still designed by Bertone, the Jalpa was powered by a 3.
In , after falling sales, new owners Chrysler pulled the plug on Jalpa production. Equipped with a litre fuel tank and a 5. He says the two men knew each other beforehand, and the far more likely setting was an automobile or engineering show of some sort—although the exact location escapes his memory and might be lost to history.
The company's own historians say the carmaking arm was founded in and produced a prototype displayed at auto shows in What's without a doubt, however, is that Ferruccio Lamborghini's comparison between his tractors and Enzo Ferrari's sports cars sparked a rivalry that has now stretched for more than five fiery decades since the first Lamborghini GTs were delivered to customers in New Cars.
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