{"id":84839,"date":"2021-11-19T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=84839"},"modified":"2021-11-30T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T08:09:05","slug":"40-years-of-lamborghini-jalpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/40-years-of-lamborghini-jalpa\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years of Lamborghini Jalpa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lamborghini is nowadays a car brand with three sports car models and one SUV. However, as early as the 1960s, there was more than one model line in the lineup. At the end of the 1970s, five different sports cars rolled off the production line in Sant’Agata at the same time. Finally, at the 1981 Geneva Motor Show, the Jalpa debuted as the final vehicle in the entry-level V8 sports car series that began with the Urraco in 1970. The Silhouette was launched in 1975. However, due to the overly broad model range and the company’s financial problems, only 55 examples of the Silhouette were built within three years. These included four US versions and nine RHD cars. After a two-year break in production, the new Jalpa was built on the same technical platform and with a very similar design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V8 engine with 255 hp<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bertone’s chief designer at the time, Marc Deschamps, and Giulio Alfieri, then Lamborghini’s managing director and technical director, worked on the body design. While the Silhouette was one of the rare exceptions in which a Lamborghini wasn’t given the name of a fighting bull, they returned to this tradition for the Jalpa. Correctly one must speak at this point of a fighting bull breed, the Jalpa Kandachia. An aluminium naturally aspirated V8 engine with four overhead camshafts continued to work behind the passengers, but the displacement had now been increased to 3.5 liters. Using four Weber twin carburetors, the engineers tickled out an output of 187 kW\/255 hp and a maximum torque of 319 Nm. This enabled a topspeed of 155 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n

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