Lamborghini Miura breaks cover
Concept car debuts today in LA
The original Lamborghini Miura
Lamborghini's P400 Miura concept makes its debut today at the Los Angeles auto show. According to Car magazine, it's being dubbed a styling exercise by Lamborghini boss Stephen Winkelmann. The magazine reported him saying enigmatically: "we are not yet talking about production. But every project has its meaning". The publication reckoned that insiders are confident that will be a runner -- although the concept in LA doesn't yet have a motor in it.
It looks like the original: the drooped nose, the lipped boot lid, and the cabin-backwards stance all hark back to the earlier design. Presumably its tendency to take off at high speeds have been constrained by modern wind tunnel and computer-aided design techniques.
It'll be derived from the Gallardo's four-wheel drive underpinnings but stretched to accommodate the mid-mounted longitudinally-oriented V12. The dash may well echo the original's with two huge dials in front of the driver plus a battery of smaller dials on the wide transmission tunnel. The engine however, could also be a new powerplant currently under development. Sporting six litres of displacement, it could get direct injection and a pair of turbochargers to generate a beefy 1,000bhp and 737lb-ft of torque.
Production is likely to be limited, and the price somewhere north of £200,000. We'll keep you posted...
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klassiekerrally said:
I don't get it...
If VW had so many problems to get 1000 bhp out of the 16 cylinder Veyron, how are they going to do it with a 12 cylinder engine?
Seeing is believing...
I wouldn't be surprised if the engine is a W12, because of the longitudinal placement in the back.
i reckon it's doable - didn't saleen recently announce a 1000bhp car recently? guess the issue for vw is whether they can generate that type of power and still retain the infamous 'golf levels of reliability'
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