1984 Lamborghini Jalpa 3.5

1984 Lamborghini Jalpa 3.5Produced between 1982 and 1990 the Lamborghini Jalpa was the' junior' Lamborghini of the 1980s and was designed to rejoin the battle with Ferrari's similarly sized 308. Major changes included a quad cam V8 engine with its capacity increased to 3. 5 litres and somewhat more aggressive styling, mainly in the side treatment of the body, which was again conceived and executed by Bertone. However, the Jalpa was essentially a development of the earlier

in the process setting 295 speed and endurance records over a series of 500-mile and 24-hour courses

Yamaha replaced the 750 cc engine with a 699 cc version to avoid the tariff

the bodywork must have been taxing to construct

With just 730 miles recorded

546km from new

pushed for a tariff on imported bikes over 700 cc

The Integrale bridges the apparent dichotomy between precision and looseness

Honda (UK) entered Mike Hailwood as one of the riders in the Motor Cycle 500 mile production race at Brands Hatch during July 1966

and impressive powertrain

perhaps unsociably at times

Built between 1968 and 1978

and as orders poured in it was immediately obvious that the level of home and export demand could only be satisfied by moving from a lightweight alloy-bodied ash frame construction to tooling up for volume production in steel