Lamborghini Marzal Concept Car

The Lamborghini Marzal is a concept car, first presented by Lamborghini at the 1967 Geneva Motor Show.

History

Designed by Marcello Gandini on behalf of Bertone , it was created with the intention of creating a 4-seater GT for Ferruccio Lamborghini .Detail of the large side windows of a Marzal Among the characteristic features were the doors with large glass surfaces and gull-wing opening as well as the roof and an equally amply louvered rear window made by the Belgian company Glaverbel. The Marzal remained a unique specimen, although it served as the stylistic inspiration for the lines of the later Lamborghini Espada .

The engine, 6 cylinders and 1,965 cm³ of displacement fitted with 3 Weber 40 DCDE horizontal twin barrel carburettors , was obtained by dissecting the 12-cylinder of the Lamborghini Miura in two .The transmission was 5-speed fully synchronized mechanical gearbox. Mechanically, it was the only six-cylinder Lamborghini. The Marzal's engine was turned 180 degrees from that of its forerunner, causing first gear to be down, away from the steering wheel. The top speed was 225 km / h  .The chassis was a integral type andindependent front and rear suspensions, telescopic dampers

Performance  

in-line six engine 1,965 cm³
max power (DIN) 175 hp (130 kW)  at 6,800.rpm,
specific power 87.6 hp/l

The Marzal remained a one-off, though the general shape and many of the ideas would later be used in the Lamborghini Espada. The Marzal design probably found wider recognition as a die-cast model, with both Dinky Toys and Matchbox making scale models, albeit in other colours such as orange, despite the original show car being painted silver. This car was publicly driven only once, by Princess Grace and her husband, as the Monaco Grand Prix pace car the same year it was designed.

One of the prototypes is currently in the museum dedicated to Ferruccio Lamborghini in Dosso, a hamlet of Sant'Agostino , in the province of Ferrara .Its name derives from the bullfights , like other models of the Bolognese house. Marzal is, in fact, the name of a breed of bulls used in arenas .

The interior was entirely done in silver to further accentuate the brightness of the passenger compartment.The central motif of the design was the hexagon that was repeated, among other things, in the dashboard , on the rear window and in the door cut.Room for 4 passengers was obtained thanks to a frame 12 centimeters longer than that of the Miura and through a positioning of the engine
cantilevered behind the axis of the rear wheels.

 

Despite being classified as a concept car it was fully functional,to the point that it was publicly driven by Princess Grace and her husband at the 1967 Formula 1 Monaco GP and that Quattroruote magazine , after testing it, published the driving impressions. 

The Marzal made a second public appearance at the 1996 Concours Italiano in Monterey, California in honor of Carrozzeria Bertone. The Lamborghini Athon was also exhibited at this time. The Marzal was located for long time in the Bertone Design Study Museum, and it was sold in auction at Villa d'Este (Italy) on 21 May 2011, for the highest bid of 1,350,000 Euros, approximately 2 million dollars.

During the weekend of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique (11-13 May 2018), Prince Albert II of Monaco retraced the traditional parade lap of the Monegasque royal family behind the wheel of the car.

Lamborghini Marzal Concept Car interior view