Lamborghini Countach
The wedge-shaped supercar with scissor doors that became a poster on countless bedroom walls.
Gandini drew the Countach as the successor to the Miura, and the prototype was shown in 1971. Its shape was a wedge of straight lines, quite unlike the Miura’s curves.
The doors opened upwards like scissors. The Countach became the 1980s symbol of the fast car.
Materials: Tubular steel frame, aluminium body; V12 engine
Manufacture: Built in Sant’Agata Bolognese from 1974 to 1990.
The wedge with sharp, straight lines.
The doors that open upwards.
The large air intakes on the sides.
A wedge shape with straight lines, doors that open upwards and forwards, and air intakes on the sides.
The LP400 from 1974; the LP400 S with wide wheel arches and a rear wing; the 5000 Quattrovalvole from 1985 and the 25th Anniversary.