pdisme
06-22-2007, 07:48 PM
It was on Father's Day weekend, has a little interesting info about the Espada:
http://blogs.motortrend.com/6211395/auto-shows/eyes-wide-open-a-look-at-the-20th-annual-eyeson-design-show/
1974 Lamborghini Espada: Marcello Gandini, son of an orchestra conductor, began his career as a freelance designer of automotive interiors and exteriors, signing on to work for Nuccio Bertone as Giorgetto Giugiaro (who won the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994) left to strike out on his own. One of his first designs is largely regarded as his best -- the Lamborghini Miura. The design for that seminal transverse-mid-engine exotic is said to have been initiated by Giugiaro, and perhaps for this reason (or lack of a suitable example), no Miura was displayed. But many of his other Lamborghini designs were present, including the front-engine V-12 Espada, which seats four comfortably and inspired the design of the Ford Torino.
http://imgup-lb.automotive.com:8080/files/6445189.w315.jpg
http://blogs.motortrend.com/6211395/auto-shows/eyes-wide-open-a-look-at-the-20th-annual-eyeson-design-show/
1974 Lamborghini Espada: Marcello Gandini, son of an orchestra conductor, began his career as a freelance designer of automotive interiors and exteriors, signing on to work for Nuccio Bertone as Giorgetto Giugiaro (who won the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994) left to strike out on his own. One of his first designs is largely regarded as his best -- the Lamborghini Miura. The design for that seminal transverse-mid-engine exotic is said to have been initiated by Giugiaro, and perhaps for this reason (or lack of a suitable example), no Miura was displayed. But many of his other Lamborghini designs were present, including the front-engine V-12 Espada, which seats four comfortably and inspired the design of the Ford Torino.
http://imgup-lb.automotive.com:8080/files/6445189.w315.jpg