Just seen some pictures of what might become the new Espada, with 6.2l V12 to take on the Ferrari 612. Nice looking IMHO, although only a view from the rear in Autocar.
...So Espada, if they do sign such a car off you've got until 2009 to save up for it.
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It won't be the same Espada, they will have make the car enjoyable to drive and nice to own in today's unreasonable market.
They would have to fix the exhaust so that it stays attached to the car and make sure the floor carpet stayed attached to its velcro. They might even have to fix the ventilation so the front screen didn't completely mist up when you turned the aircon off and so on.
I'm very glad the original Espada existed and even more glad I'll never own one.
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You've no soul bartycrouch!
I've just been saying this evening to some friends. There is only one car in the world I want and its an Esapda III. I know it has its faults, but then so do I and so does my wife but we love each other (euchhh..)
I seriously considered bidding for Paul McCartney's Espada that was on Ebay recently and the only thing that put me off was the fact that I have nowhere to keep it. If I had a decent garage or small workshop within a mile I would have bought it.
It's the romance and passion of Ferrucio Lamboghini fighting a great battle against the snobby Enzo Ferrari. It's the fact that he had the balls to build the Muira and Countach with contra-rotating V12 engines. It's the fact that I would only drive it on a dry day with no worries about condensation and carpets and I would keep the air con on always anyway as we are told to do by HJ.
I heard about a charity car rally recently for the seriously wealthy in Monaco. The people all flew in from London and hired fast cars - all except an acquaintance of mine who shipped his E-type over for the event. What would you want to drive. A rented Modena 360 or the E-type. If you say the Ferrari - you'll never understand why I want the Espada.
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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My uncle has a few jags, and I think one of the latest is a XK convertable of some sort (he did have a hard top XK140 until not long ago). Anyway every year he goes on a jolly to France with other jag owners and once they all shipped cars to east coast America (by ship of course) and flew out for a touring holiday.
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>>I seriously considered bidding for Paul McCartney's Espada that was on Ebay recently...
Do you know how much it fetched?
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I think £25,000 but failed to reach reserve.
Personally I would have raided the kids piggy bank and gone to £30k, but I need most of that to get myself a decent garage.
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This weeks AutoExpress has more on it- expected to cost 180 grand and be called Lagartijo. The name apparently comes from the fabled spanish matador who saved the life of the courageous bull Murcielago
History lesson over.
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Murciélago was a Spanish bull that was spared for its valor by the famed matador Rafael Molina "Lagartijo". That was in 1879, when Murciélago was put to stud, fathering a line of fighting bulls that extends to the present.
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Does that line include my two boys who the proverbial 'bulls in a ....'
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Intriguing.
A little more about the connection between Lamborghini and it's symbol the fighting bull....from a Lamborghini press release;
In the late afternoon of October 5th 1879, after a fierce fight in the arena of Cordoba, a bull named Murciélago from Joaquin del Val di Navarra?s farm, had his life spared by the famous matador Rafael Molina ?Lagartijo?. This was a very rare occurrence in bullfighting, and an honour accorded only to those bulls that have shown exceptional courage and spirit in the arena. And Murciélago was indeed such a bull. He was subsequently given to the breeder Don Antonio Miura, and went on to father a formidable line of fighting bulls that extends right down to the present day.
True to the tradition in which the bull has always been the symbol of the prestigious motorcar company founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini - born under the sign of Taurus, no less - the management at Automobili Lamborghini have decided to baptise the latest car in the noble line with the name of a fighting bull. And so, after a succession of names linked to the world of the corrida, such as Miura, Jslero, Urraco, Bravo, Jalpa and Espada (the latter being Spanish for sword, the weapon of the matador, and thus a symbol for the matador himself) we now have Murciélago - which coincidentally also means "bat" in Spanish.
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You all knew I had rapier like wit.....
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The "espada" used in connection with bullfighting is actually an
espada Estoque
A very special sword designed to be driven through the bulls shoulder blades through a hole made by the Picadors pica
and into the Bulls heart.
To reach the heart the Espada is actually bent.
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And that'll be enough of that, I think.
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Espada III
I hadn't ever heard of the Espada, but after looking at this www.italiaspeed.com/2005/cars/lamborghini/01/espad...l I can see why you like them so much.
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Now stop it!!
I've just had to wipe the drool from the keyboard. I've been in love since 1972 (aged 8).
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And Espada is the name for a matador's sword
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Sorry didn't read all of the thread!
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There's nothing more wonderful than a great 70s Italian supercar, but unfortunately Lamborghini decided to make great-looking Italian supercars instead during this period.
My father used to know a guy who road tested for one of the magazines in the 70s and the stories he told of the problems they had shattered my illusions, I think the only one he didn't test was the Miura.
Having said that I would buy a Uracco P300 tommorrow if I had the money.
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