Bob Wallace, Lamborghini’s New Zealand test driver, built the Miura Jota without permission, named it with a Spanish letter, and ended up running a shop in Phoenix.
Eccentrica V12: The Analogue Rebellion That Just Spent a Million Quid on a Diablo In an age where the average new supercar fields three electric motors, fifteen hundred horsepower from a battery pack and a Nürburgring mode that scores your laps to Hans Zimmer, a quietly stubborn man from San Marino has set about doing … Read more
Ferruccio Lamborghini: the farmer who insulted Enzo Ferrari and built an empire The man who answered an insult with a V12 A 47-year-old tractor manufacturer walks into Enzo Ferrari’s office in Maranello and tells him his cars are rubbish. Ferrari tells him to go back to his tractors. Four months later, the tractor manufacturer has … Read more
LAMBORGHINI LM002: The engine doesn’t match the car Pop the asymmetric bonnet of a Lamborghini LM002 and look down. What you’re seeing is a Tipo L510 V12. 5,167 cc. Double overhead cams per bank. Four valves per cylinder. Six twin-choke Weber carburettors feeding twelve cylinders. 444 hp at 6,800 rpm. That engine has no business … Read more
MARCELLO GANDINI: THE GENIUS BERTONE NEVER LET SIGN HIS OWN CARS At sixteen, they gave him money to buy a Latin textbook. He bought a combustion engine manual written by Dante Giacosa instead. That act of rebellion defines everything that followed. Because Marcello Gandini wasn’t born to study what he was told. He was born … Read more
Lamborghini Diablo: The Last Wild Bull Not Enough Cylinders — Unfiltered Automotive Opinion There are cars that define an era. And then there’s the Lamborghini Diablo, which defined the very idea of what a supercar should be. The Diablo wasn’t just the successor to the Countach. It was the car that took everything Lamborghini had … Read more
Dodge Viper: a truck V10 reworked in aluminum by Lamborghini, the raw RT/10, the GTS-R that won Le Mans three times and a factory Viper in the Spanish GT series.
LAMBORGHINI MIURA (1966-1973): The Car That Invented the Supercar The Forbidden Project In 1965, Ferruccio Lamborghini was crystal clear about one thing: he did NOT want to build race cars. His factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese was cranking out the 350 GT and 400 GT—elegant grand tourers designed for gentlemen who wanted to travel fast but … Read more
