The Lamborghini Jalpa is anything but a Spare — via drivingdotca Lamborghini
For one thing, its 3.5-litre V8 is a sweetheart. Transversely mounted to centralize mass, it’s good for 255 horsepower at 7,000 rpm. Oh, its four dual-choke Webers may pump out enough unburnt hydrocarbons to choke an entire army of Greta Thunbergs, but, when you’re behind the wheel, it’s a model of sophistication.
More importantly, it sounds the part: though not quite the symphony that is a Countach V12, its soundtrack is more than an equal for its Maranello counterparts, the 308 and 328 Ferraris. Unlike today’s supercars, the Jalpa is internal combustion completely “unfiltered”: hit the gas and the intake roars its defiance . Let it off, and the exhaust’s snap, crackle, and pop voice annoyance at not being allowed to defy said limits.
More to the point — that it’s patently unfair that history ignores the Jalpa — while the Jalpa’s six-second sprint to 100 kilometres per hour doesn’t sound like much these days, it’s actually just 0.6 of a second behind the original LP400 Countach. In other words — for its time — the Jalpa was not nearly as lethargic as reputed.
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