GTP Cool Wall: 1968-1969 Lamborghini Islero

[Vegard]

1. Couldn't they have pulled more power out of that V12?
2. Why make a four-seater car with only two doors? That hurts its accessibility. It's better off being a 2 door, 2 seater.
3. It just doesn't appeal to me.

#3 puts it at a Meh, the other two put it down to Seriously Uncool.

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The car, for me, is uncool. I don't like the design, at all.
I get a kit-car vibe from it and it's very strangely proportioned.

 

[Carlos]

This may be the most tame Lambo I've ever seen.

They should do that more often..

 

[Obelisk]

This post is

That's your opinion, mate.

 

[Vegard]

That's your opinion, mate.

87.5 hp/l for a production engine was quite amazing for the era and is still very much respectable today, almost 50 years later.

As for the door-to-seat ratio, I can't see how that has anything to do with coolness. At least it's not very consistent of you considering you voted the M4 and Celica GT-Four (the last two 2 doors with rear seats polled) cool.

 

[Obelisk]

87.5 hp/l for a production engine was quite amazing for the era and is still very much respectable today, almost 50 years later.

As for the door-to-seat ratio, I can't see how that has anything to do with coolness. At least it's not very consistent of you considering you voted the M4 and Celica GT-Four (the last two 2 doors with rear seats polled) cool.

It's strictly a car-to-car basis. There are plenty of other factors I look at when I vote on a car - those were just my biggest issues.

 

[Tornado]

Pretty nasty looking.

1. Couldn't they have pulled more power out of that V12?

This is pre-Chrysler Lamborghini, and gross ratings on top of that. The numbers Lamborghini claimed on the spec sheet that it does have already don't have much basis in reality besides the displacement.

 

[Vegard]

gross ratings

I'm pretty sure it's DIN. SAE gross was used exclusively by American manufacturers IIRC.

 

[Sage Ages]

1. Couldn't they have pulled more power out of that V12?

It was the 60's. What were you expecting?

 

[Legro]

What a fantastically cool name. Islero.

"What do you drive these days?"

"Well, it's an Islero."

 

[Tornado]

I'm pretty sure it's DIN. SAE gross was used exclusively by American manufacturers IIRC.

It probably was. I left out a word in my post.


The point was that the most effort anyone at Lamborghini put into determining a car's performance back then was when someone typed up the printed materials. Did the Islero (and that engine in general) have 350 horsepower? The one they sent to be dynoed did, maybe. And the ones they let magazines have when asked. And probably the ones sitting in a collector's garage getting engine rebuilds to higher quality than anything that ever left a Lamborghini factory before Audi came calling.

 

[Vegard]

The point was that the most effort anyone at Lamborghini put into determining a car's performance back then was when someone typed up the printed materials. Did the Islero (and that engine in general) have 350 horsepower? The one they sent to be dynoed did, maybe. And the ones they let magazines have when asked. And probably the ones sitting in a collector's garage getting engine rebuilds to higher quality than anything that ever left a Lamborghini factory before Audi came calling.

That's probably very close to the truth

 

[edawg456]

Easy sun zero.

 

[Cano]

Hyper sub zero.

 

[Matej]

Cool. I didn't give it the maximum grade as the rear end is designed a bit unusual and is not in balance.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

1. Couldn't they have pulled more power out of that V12?

Denny Hulme's 1967 Brabham F1 car made approximately 327 bhp and won him the world championship. If Lamborghini brought out a car making 850 bhp (a conservative estimate of what Mercedes' F1 car made last year), would you still be wondering why it didn't make more power?

 

[Switcher]

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with a 4 seater...with four doors.

Coupe + 4 seats = difficult to drive people around.

Not all coupes are that way broski.

 

[cjr3559]

Never heard of this car. Pre 70s Lamborghini? Cool no matter what it is.

 

[RandomCarGuy17]

I have never heard of this Lamborghini either. Though, I'm liking the styling, I sort of like the interior, and I like the name. I can imagine this easily being cool, but I can't think of anything else that would make it cooler than that. So, it's a high cool.

 

[6ranTur15m05]

A classic Lambo? Sub 0!

 

[XJ40]

I wasn't that sure about it until I saw the last two photos, I'll take mine in blue and with that exact interior please.
Cool