“A Bertone design so fresh that everything else looks old fashioned,” read Road & Track’s opening comment in the July 1967 report on the stunning @lamborghini Marzal. The P200 Marzal was the calumniation of a close collaboration between Nuccio Bertone and Ferruccio Lamborghini. In fact, it was both the automotive designer and the visionary’s ambition to create to a true GT with comfortable seating for four, offering high performance and redefining the very concept of grand touring. Suitably named after a strain of fighting bull, the Marzal featured a unique prototype engine developed by Lamborghini that would never see production. Its most notable feature, and certainly the most technically advanced for the time, was the use of long gullwing doors rather than a constrained four-door layout. This enabled production to fit large windows which, combined with a lightly smoked glass roof, helped create a very airy feeling inside the cabin. Making its debut at the 1967 Geneva Motor Show, the Lamborghini Marzal concept’s revolutionary styling sent shockwaves through the automotive industry. Today, even for those without an avid design eye, it is evident that many of the styling cues continued to be executed in the most contemporary Lamborghini supercars. #meandmybentley #lamborghini #marzal #bertone #concept
