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Lamborghini Espada - sportiness for four people

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Created on July 30, 2012

Reading time 6min

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Peter Ruch (Radical-Mag)

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - das Zusatzfenster erlaubte ein besseres Rangieren

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - Frontansicht aus der Vogelperspektive

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - Heckansicht

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - die Front von Marcello Gandini wirkt kraftvoll

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - Erinnerungen an den Pirana sind kein Zufall

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - sieht nicht nur gross aus, er war es auch

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - Interieur in Leder und Holz - luxuriös und sportlich

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - erstaunlich viel Innenraum

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - der grosse Zwölfzylinder

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Lamborghini Espada (1973) - an der RM Auction Arizona 2011 verkauft für USD 38'500

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Lamborghini Espada (1973) - an der RM Auction Arizona 2011 verkauft für USD 38'500

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Lamborghini Espada (1973) - an der RM Auction "Automobiles of Arizona 2010 für USD 41'250 verkauft

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Lamborghini Espada (1973) - an der RM Auction "Automobiles of Arizona 2010 für USD 41'250 verkauft

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Lamborghini Espada (1973) - Durchsichtszeichnung

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Lamborghini Marzal (1967) - atemberaubender Bertone-Prototyp, gezeichnet von Marcello Gandini

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Lamborghini Marzal (1967) - Flügeltüren und Bienenwagenheck

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Lamborghini Marzal 1967 - Seitenansicht

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - Gran Turismo für Eilige

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - kraftvolle Vorderansicht

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - Heckansicht

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - das vierplätzige Coupé

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - stimmige Formgebung von Marcello Gandini

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - geräumiges Interieur

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Lamborghini Espada (1968) - das vierplätzige Interieur

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Lamborghini Espada (1969) - die meisten wurden in dunklen Farbtönen bestellt

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Lamborghini Espada (1970) - ausgestellt auf dem Autosalon

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Lamborghini Espada (1970) - elegante Form und viel Platz

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Lamborghini Espada (1975) - ein 400 GTS - der Sportwagen reifte in Würde

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Lamborghini Espada (1973) - hat auch nach fünf Jahren Bauzeit noch nichts von seiner Eleganz verloren

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Lamborghini Espada (1970) - Werbesujet von Bertone

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Summary

Between 1968 and 1978, Lamborghini built 1,224 four-seater Espada coupés. Marcello Gandini succeeded in providing four people with perfectly acceptable seating conditions and the legendary V12 engine ensured that the car could be driven in a manner befitting its status. This article describes the history of the Espada and shows it in current and historical pictures, as well as in sales brochures of the time.

This article contains the following chapters

Ferruccio Lamborghini, the gentleman
Design borrowings from the Jaguar Pirana
A work for eternity
Four fully-fledged seats
Sports car substructure
325 hp from twelve cylinders
1,224 Espadas in 10 years
Further information

Estimated reading time: 6min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Perhaps it was simply a punishment, the Espada. Secretly, without the knowledge of the great patron Ferruccio Lamborghini, Gian Paolo Dallara, chief designer, Paolo Stanzani, production manager, and Bob Wallace, test driver, had built a vehicle in 1965 that was absolutely revolutionary, the Miura. Ferruccio did not deny his young savages their wish, the Miura was launched in 1966 and will forever be and remain the most wonderful, most insane, most magnificent automobile ever built in Sant'Agata. However, Ferruccio Lamborghini was more of a gentleman at heart, he had nothing to do with racing cars; he had made his money with tractors and was more interested in cultivated transportation. And if his highly talented team could find the time to put a racing car in disguise on the road in their spare time, then they would also have the leisure to fulfill his dream of a large coupé with room for four people and a bit of luggage. The large, superior touring car that Ferruccio Lamborghini had always dreamed of much more intensely than the ultimate driving machine.

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