And in the beginning it was Lamborghini Miura. For Chris Harris, the iconic model of the Taurus represented a real watershed in the history of the car and above all of supercars, so much so that the well-known British journalist, for some years in the Top Gear team, has dedicated to the historic car of the car manufacturer of Sant’Agata Bolognese a video in which it pays homage to its evolution to the men who gave life to this symbol, underlining how the lines andThe design so simple but so impactful was able to inspire both the subsequent models of the Italian brand and those of other car brands.
The special created by Harris on the Miura, however, starts from further away, from the origins of the Lamborghini brand and the relationship between its founder and Enzo Ferrari, with the differences between the two that would have led to the birth of the car manufacturer del Toro. The automotive journalist then underlines the excellent work done by Marcello Gandini, enhancing the design features of the Miura in several passages of its clip. An authentic tribute to a car that made Lamborghini history. Designed in 1965 by the engineering team of the Casa del Toro under the guidance of Gian Paolo Dallara and Paolo Stanzani and dressed by Marcello Gandini for Carrozzeria Bertone, the Miura became immediately object of the desire of the fans who began to contend for it. The name came from Edoardo Miuraa close friend of Ferruccio Lamborghini and famous for his breeding of Bulls, a choice that also inaugurated the nomenclature linked to the animal symbol of the brand.
The car body, sinuous and sensual only put 105cm between the ground and the roof, with a minimum ground clearance of 135mm. The debut came at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show, with a global success that broke all patterns for the sports of the time. The positioning of the engine in the rear center position in a transverse orientation was a great innovation. The engine then, a sixty-degree V-12, four liters of displacement, with a single block comprising gearbox and differential was unique in its kind and was able to develop a power of 350 hp at 7000 rpm and a record top speed for those times of 280 km / h.
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