Lamborghini Miura
The first road car with a mid-mounted V12, often called the first supercar.
Lamborghini’s engineers built a chassis with the engine mounted crosswise behind the seats, and Bertone designed the body. Marcello Gandini was only 27.
The Miura was shown in 1966 and named after a breeder of fighting bulls. It became the model for the mid-engined supercars that followed.
Materials: Steel chassis, body of steel and aluminium; transverse V12 engine behind the seats
Manufacture: Built in Sant’Agata Bolognese from 1966 to 1973.
The low, softly rounded body.
The headlamps with black eyelashes.
The louvres over the rear window.
The V12 engine sits transversely behind the seats, and engine and gearbox share the same oil.
Pop-up headlights surrounded by black “eyelashes”, a louvre behind the rear window and a low, rounded body.
The P400 from 1966, the P400 S from 1968 and the P400 SV from 1971.