Driving home in a Lamborghini Jalpa. (note me giv

http://www.lamborghini-tech.com/wiki/Lamborghini_Jalpa

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[simondaddy1]

I drove a Jalpa for the day. Sure as heck didn't have rolled up sleeve cuffs to prove I was serious.

[dieselscience]

@abbeykroeter It was called a "truck." It also has four wheel drive. Go do some reading...

[abbeykroeter]

@dieselscience ...to remember what they were asking the LM to do. Some of them had heavy guns, carried 9 people, even had faucets with running water. That demands serious backing; the U.S. worked with domestic companies borrowing the idea seen at Lambo. The hummer program had serious money. Slow, bad ride, it's great off-road though. Little Lamborghini couldn't do it for cheap. So they went with small and occasional custom orders from others. Call it whatever you want; the idea was cool.

[abbeykroeter]

@dieselscience ..and the "civilian version" of a Jeep from 1908? Where is the example? That's the date of the start of Willys, and other 4x4's were even earlier, but not the point of fast off-roading. I drove VERY shaky Willys, Jeeps, Fords, GM, Scout, ect... I liked parts of those domestics, I'm a veteran, and love my country. The fact is the LM would roast those vehicles over dirt/sand in 1972. You personally know the reliability? It was a new thing, just like developing anything else... need

[abbeykroeter]

@dieselscience Umm people weren't using the term "SUV" until a wagon-like truck-based vehicle was sold, with a lot more carrying capacity then a Willys army jeep. So I am comparing the LM to what people actually referred to when the SUV name was coined, and it's a lot closer than a Willys. Why didn't they bother calling a truck an SUV at the time? Because it was a TRUCK, kid. NOTHING you mentioned; the jeep, GM, Ford, had the same goal the LM was being designed for. Speed through the desert.

[FundamentalShift]

Ha! That's me! I *love* that this found its way out here. Shot in Omaha in the spring of 2005 (I sold it later that summer). 1987 Jalpa #370 (of ~410), Acapulco Blue over Grey. Full stainless exhaust (This was recorded with a cheap (circa 2005) cell phone - so you can only imagine how it sounded live in person. ). The stance, the color, the lines and angles, the insane sound of the engine, the feel...it was such a brilliantly angry little bull of a car...Jalpas deserve respect.

[dieselscience]

@abbeykroeter No, the US Army had the first 'real' SUV, it was called the Truck, 1/4 ton, general purpose (GP) aka "Jeep" Willys, Ford and General Motors had done it before. Willys- 1908 (civilian version), Jeep- 1941 (civilian version) Lamborghini company founded 1963 - so....yeah, whatever you say, kid. The Lambo LM was, is and always will be a COPY OF EVERYTHING ELSE except for it shakes itself apart and will not get out of it's own way - it's less reliable than a Yugo.

[abbeykroeter]

@dieselscience Yet designed and made before any real suv... hardly something to critique since nobody had done it yet. the LM's were answers for governments/rich folks wanting something to haul ass in the deserts, etc... with guns mounted and such. Lamborghini succeeded-- but was copied by others doing it cheaper, and well, you know how that goes with most customers. That Lambo "suv" could do 100mph in the SAND. That's what they wanted, and then didn't buy it. Fags.

[dieselscience]

@xXCheech24Xx No, the WORST Lambo ever was that abortion of an SUV.

[kapios69]

all time classic!!!!!!!