Why the Lamborghini Miura and the coolest supercar is

Posted on 10-03-2016 at 9:49 by perry_snijders – 39 Comments”

At the Geneva motor Show were a lot of firsts, but not one of them is so blubberdik if the car that a half-century ago had its premiere: the Lamborghini Miura.

In 1976 was the Volvo 343 for the first time to shine more at Geneva, but you will not make me hear about it. Actually I’m not such a fan of verjaardagsartikeltjes for a car. Because, be honest, about that Volvo, you can barely more interesting facts to think that ‘ie 40 years. But for the Lamborghini Miura I will gladly make an exception, because 50 is a better number than 40, but most of all, is that Lamborghini the ultimate reason to play in the state Lottery.

If you have the chance to look under the hood of a Miura, the beautiful body is hardly more hidden than a tubular frame and a majestic V12. A similar wow moment must have felt when the Miura was unveiled. Twice even, because in 1965 showed Lamborghini the chassis at the motor show of Turin in 1966, it was the complete car, with the beautiful bodywork by Marcello Gandini. Or was he still by the hand of Giorgetto Giugiaro? This is never really clarity come. In any case, it gave Lamborghini the assignment to a vehicle body design to Bertone, where Gandini Giugiaro succeeded. Because it is a bit of a haastklusje was at that time still relatively unknown brand, I believe that the young Gandini the job in the shoes slid.

For a relatively unknown brand, that was Lamborghini at that time. Only in 1963 had a Lamborghini to his first car show, after a good conversation with his streekgenoot Enzo Ferrari in which he complained did on a purchased car. We don’t know exactly what occurred, but the most likely is that it is a huge excess of Italian quick temper was of the type where The Godfather faded to a cheerful kwajongensfilm.
The first cars of Lamborghini were beautiful and well done and worth the effort, but it was missing something: the quality of Ferrari to overshadow and preferably all the way to bruise. It was therefore that Ferruccio Lamborghini to agree with the Miura, although his heart is actually in GT’s lag.

For the Miura had Gian Paolo Dallara a good look at cars like the Porsche 904 and especially the Ford GT40 (that last, incidentally, was also started out of an argument with Enzo Ferrari). There was the future, he thought, and a Lamborghini with a V12 in the back would do can provide the shock and awe that the brand was looking for. And that did it. That’s why I think the Miura is prettier than íedere modern Lamborghini, because I know no one in bewilderment to a Huracán, Aventador, Gallardo or Diablo has standing and staring. The last time you put a shock through the room, I felt, was when the brand a few years ago in Paris the fantastic Sesto Elemento showed. And before that, in the LM 002. And before that, in the Countach. But it all started with the Miura, the car including Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra to put the wallet to attract.

The Miura has zero electronic assistance systems on the road. On the contrary, you get the feeling that the car want nothing more than your indecent hard to graze, because the V12 is every moment ready to the grip of the rear tires to break. The car is as small and light as possible, he is shorter than the new Porsche 718 Boxster, for example, with a body that just to get the technique back fits — like Dafne Schippers of her sprints, also did not pull in an evening gown. The biggest thrill is the view in the rear-view mirror, which is uncomfortably close. The traffic behind you, you see there is hardly any in there, but the V12 that only centimeters away is better. And if you, the monster can’t see, can you hear it when you gas.

Even today you can still vividly imagine how big the shock was when Lamborghini this car half a century ago, for the first time showed. Until that time, there were indeed many beautiful sports cars produced, but Lamborghini took a resounding blow up the blueprint for the supercar down. Without a back placed V12 and a look that universally amazement and admired you since the Miura nowhere more in supercarland. And that’s why the Miura cooler than any other supercar — simply because the original is always better than any copy.

And because you never have enough Miura’s can see, we conclude with a look at the plant in 1968: the Movie!

Gallery: Lamborghini Miura P40SV Prototype

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