The Factory

Yes, this is a Lamborghini Espada Show Car, prepared for logistics, white over red leather

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... maybe same car

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I don’t care
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There are other highlights at shows

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Well… think I found the only disadvantagous perspective of the Miura…

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it is from above, slightly to the side

Something seems to be wrong with the proportions between side/rear end of the car

 

Now, also from above, this time straight, something’s seems to be goofy between side and rear

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This is reflecting my personal opinion, I’m not influenced by other members and I don’t want to question Marchello Gandini's Design.

 

Here some nice and familiar pictures of the Lamborghini Miura taken from all other angles:

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I hope these pictures compensate my post of the appearance of the Miura, and era

 

The SV lost some of the purity of design with the wider haunches.

 

Just needed some wider wheels/tyres on the rear..

 

So here’s the Lamborghini Miura owned by Neil Peart, Drummer of the band „Rush“

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…were the emmission laws like ETA or CARB, first applying to only one state of the U.S.?

 

It seems like the emission certification often covered all of the states except Ca. I think rarely was a car 50 state legal when brought over. Never seen one that was approved just for one state.

 

So the "official" way to export these cars from Italy to the U.S. was via California? Think Lamborghini had also distributors in other states...

 

Anything but Ca., which has the strictest emission laws in the US. Lamborghini was a grey market manufacture for the US, overall (I don't know if a Miura, Espada, etc was meet with the same scrutiny that the Countach was, as laws & rules evolved), until the QV. Same with the DOT releases.

 

I read a book by Pete Lyons (a british motor journalist)
He’s talking about at least 2 mistakes, Lamborghini made the early 70ies:

mistake 1: F.L. stopped the production of the Miura SV, when the Countach Prototype was presented (these last 150 SV’s were „built to order“-cars).
… and he promised customers of the LP 500, to be delivered in about just one year, for sure knowing better…

mistake 2: The Urraco: A smaller Lamborghini with V8 power: He built a new production hall, planning with moon-like production-figures, figures shrank opposite.

 

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Talking about U.S. Exports:

They worked out an automatic transmission for the market. Thy worked on the „Lancomatic“, a much more luxorious suspension for the Espada. They contributed extra fat bumpers, and so on.

Think adaption to EPA norms came later, when all important employees had already gone.

 

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alright. Maybe Volvo made similar mistakes during the 80's (see theme above).

 

concerning Silhouette & Jalpa…

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is it possible that Lamborghini just „refined“ these cars – using old corpi they still had on stock from the Bertone era ?

 

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lol

 

this could be the reason for the low production numbers and the high prices

 

Currently 2x Silhouette available, one in USA and one in Europe, but not white ah ah ah


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