Did Lamborghini have an inkling of the trouble to come when he sold up in 1972? The Seventies and Eighties were dark days for the firm – bankruptcy in 1978, changing ownership and a string of dodgy, forgettable cars. The Jalpa was perhaps the lowest moment, however. The entry level Lambo of the Eighties. Think of it as the Huracán of its day, only much worse. Essentially the Jalpa was a facelifted Silhouette, except that facelifts are intended to make the faceliftee look younger and fresher, and the Jalpa, even when new, looked neither young nor fresh.