Why didn't the Lamborghini Jalpa take off?
 

What a beautiful car this was... Sort of looks like a Lotus Esprit....

http://files.conceptcarz.com/img/Lam...V-09_CI-01.jpg

Outshined by the Coutach I guess.

Good point. That sure was a beautiful car too....

http://autofluence.com/wp-content/up...013/04/1-1.jpg

very nice looking car

"In 1988, after falling sales, the new owners, Chrysler, decided to end Jalpa production despite being Lamborghini's most successful V8 car to date having sold 410 units."

guess it did take off lol

I think V8 is the key figure here. Looks like no one wanted to buy a V8 Lambo and opted for the V12 models instead.

Maybe because it looks like a supra with body mods?

looks like shit. prolly did then too

think it came down to ownership issues

It does kind of look like a Supra...

For one thing it doesn't have their trademark front end curvature. It's a good looking car, but the design in general is borrowed from less expensive cars. It doesn't look like it's from outer space.

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you coulda gotten much better looking cars than the jalpa for the money back then. I myself am partial to the RUF porsche turbo...

http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/...bo_Front_1.jpg

it took off for rich people quite a few r&b and rappers own them some ball players too.

The Hun owns one :winkwink:

I drove one - once. A guy I worked for in the late 80s owned one...let me take it for a spin.

Everytime I see one of these I think Miami Vice.

loved that fuckin show :2 cents: this weekend will be miami vice and beer :thumbsup pacific rim was dogg chit :2 cents:

In fact, that's where I got it from. I listen to DVDs running in the background. I can only listen to something I've seen, anything new is to distracting. I run entire TV shows from start to finish... Today in the background it was Miami Vice, eposide "Phil The Shill" with Phil Collins - Phil drove the White Jalpa.