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SPANISH FIGHTING BULL
The Lamborghini Miura S |
The first production Lamborghini left the brand new factory at Sant'Agata in 1964, the 350 GTV (covered in one of our previous issues) was constructed in 1963, but it
wasn't really built in the new factory, nor was it a production car, but merely a prototype.
After only three years of production, during which Ferruccio built the very nice 350 GT and later the 400 GT, he stunned the world by showing an innovative rolling
chassis at the 1965 Turin Auto Show.
This chassis showed a transversely mid-mounted, compact V12 engine, something the world had only seen in pure bred race cars before, but never on a road going exotic.
With this new design, Lamborghini was years ahead of the competition, which laughed at him, they stated he would never be able to put this into production ...
they couldn't have been more wrong.
During the S model production, ventilated disc brakes were introduced, still utilizing the well known Girling calipers, but now using new brake pads.
Power windows soon became standard too, while the two handles to release the engine-cover were converted to only one unit, the two handles on the early cars were a real
annoyance, they had to be pulled simultaneously to release the hood so you always needed two people to open the rear section to reach the V12 power plant.
But the Miura S would be succeeded by an even better Bull, the impressive SV edition, which came to be considered as the ultimate Miura, it took over from the S model
after only 140 units were built, a lot less than the 475 units of the original P400 Miura.
| only 140 Miura S models would be made before the amazing SV took over ... |
This SV evolution was arguably the best Miura of the lot, but Lamborghini made one slight mistake ... the Miura SV was introduced during the 1971 Geneva Auto Show,
but at the same show the Bertone stand presented the next step up ... the awesome Countach !
If you own a Miura today you are sitting in a sure investment, these amazing automobiles will only demand more and more money to obtain, and this tendency is already
spreading towards the other models in the history of Lamborghini. An early Countach LP400 is getting very expensive these days too, and even the 350 GT and 400 GT are
reaching much higher levels than say ten years ago.
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The photographs from this issue can be found on the wallpaper selection |
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