Sweet ride. Kinda reminds of the Pantera.
Wait - it didn’t blow up. Cars are supposed to blow up when they roll down hills.
Music by Quincy Jones.
Also saw Benny Hill in the credits...THE Benny Hill?
Last question...was that a fiat Dino coupe? (The black car parked while the bulldozer pushed the Lambo off the cliff.)
60s Italian cars had the best lines!
If not THE most beautiful production car ever made, it’s certainly on a very short list (pictures fail to do the Miura Justice).
It’s much more like the de Tomaso Mangusta than the Pantera, and there’s yet to be a Lotus made with the sensuous curves of a Miura. Chapman always was too obsessed with weight reduction to waste grams on looks.
Ferrari disliked the mid-engine design because, as he often said, "The horse pulls the cart." The Miura is the car that moved Ferrari to build the mid-engined, flat-12 Berlinetta Boxer anyway (which, curiously, despite the name, does not have a boxer engine) so Lamboghini wouldn't be "one-up" on him.
Lamborghini chose the charging bull as his logo, not just to counter of Ferrari's prancing stallion, but also because his sign of the zodiac was Taurus. Most Lambos, like the Miura, are named after breeds of fighting bull or, like the Murciélago, famous bullfighters.
Lambo's customary naming convention leads to some curious pronunciations of the model's names because the ones named after bulls or bullfighters are correctly pronounced in the Spanish fashion, not the Italian. So the Jarama is "ha-RAM-uh," not "ja-RAM-uh." I once had the misfortune to hear a cRap performer bragging about his Lamborghini "gah-LARD-oh," except in Spanish the Gallardo's double-Els are pronounced as a 'Y,' as in "gah-YARD-oh."
Would that be cousin it?