Lamborghini Espada

Lamborghini does not build many cars like the Lamborghini Espada: a 2-door coupé with 3929 cc Lamborghini V12, built from 1968 to 1978 in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Its designer of record is Marcello Gandini at Bertone. Production ran to 1,217 cars.

The background

The Lamborghini Espada is a 4-seat grand touring coupé built by Italian car manufacturer Lamborghini between 1968 and 1978.

The engineering

Under the skin sits 3929 cc Lamborghini V12. Kerb weight is 1630 kg. The gearbox is a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 3-speed TorqueFlite Automatic transmission / automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2650 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

Where it sits in Lamborghini's history is not in doubt: the Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2 came before it; it was built at Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Toyota Hilux, the Peugeot 504, the Pontiac Firebird. Its Lamborghini stablemates include the Lamborghini Calà and the Lamborghini Marco Polo.

The money

There is no federal ownership record for the Lamborghini Espada — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.