RE: Lambo rejects Miura production
Tuesday 14th February 2006
Just a fantasy, apparentlyLamborghini has gone into denial about the Miura concept that wowed the Detroit Motor Show last month.
Lambo rejects Miura production
It won't fly, says supercar maker
Just a fantasy, apparently
At the time, it was dubbed a styling exercise by Lamborghini boss Stephen Winkelmann. Car 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 didn't have a motor in it.
However, Lamborghini has now issued a statement which says that it doesn't have the capacity make it, and that the Miura is a GT and "we're not in the GT business any more. We are a super sports car business."
What's more, insiders suggest that the underpinnings of the concept were no more than wood, plastic styling pieces and clay. Production has, apparently, been rejected as an option.
Discussion
. When I first saw the pics of the car I hated it, but now after seeing it a few times, I think it looks fantastic 
some confused people at Lamborghini said:
However, Lamborghini has now issued a statement which says that it doesn't have the capacity make it, and that the Miura is a GT and "we're not in the GT business any more. We are a super sports car business."
Err, so this Miura then - 2 seats, mid-engined, not much luggage space, all about maximum performance and looks - is a 'GT', and the Murcielago - 2 seats, mid-engined, not much luggage space, all about maximum performance and looks - fits into their idea of a 'super sports car'.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Miura is no GT. If you want a Lamborghini GT, look at the 400GT, the Islero, the Espada, the Jarama, the Urraco - cars as important to Lamborghini's heritage as the Miura.
That statement sounds like confused fudging to me - IMO they're admitting that it was just a slightly misguided supercar styling exercise a little lacking in imagination by pretending that it is something it isn't and claiming that they don't build them
It's like that seemingly endless run of gorgeous Jaguar concepts during the '90s which were supposed to replace the XK8 all being 'not quite where we're at' when in fact they were rebodied XK8s themselves.
I was at the Detroit show and in my never humble opinion, the thing was a stinker in real life. Park a real Miura next to this concept and you'll see the new concept is pudgy. A little too much alfredo sauce, perhaps? The Ford GT is bigger than the GT40, but carries it off well because the shape didn't put on any fat. Can't say that about the Lambo design. They won't produce this car, I think, because of a belated case of good taste. Better they shouldn't have shown it. Or maybe it was OK, since most people seem to like it. But was she really a looker way back when...
jesprit said:
Shame that, I thought they could do a limited run like Ford done with the GT.
IIRC Ford make a loss on every GT they sell, I don't think Audi would like that idea.
Forgotten about the Bugatti Veyron already?!?!
Sorry if this is a little off topic but,I think its a real shame that Audi (already part of the VAG group) own both Bugatti and Lamborghini. I think it dilutes the brand names..
Much like Jaguar and Aston Martin at Fords.
klassiekerrally said:
You know what's a shame: I don't even care that they aren't going to build it.
I'd like to explain that a bit...
Not building this retro thing keeps the modelrange 'clean'.
They instead should put the time and money in creating something mindstaggering, as r988 already mentioned.
Fire99 said:
Shame that, I thought they could do a limited run like Ford done with the GT.
IIRC Ford make a loss on every GT they sell, I don't think Audi would like that idea.
Forgotten about the Bugatti Veyron already?!?!
Sorry if this is a little off topic but,I think its a real shame that Audi (already part of the VAG group) own both Bugatti and Lamborghini. I think it dilutes the brand names..
Much like Jaguar and Aston Martin at Fords.
They should have left Bugatti the way it was: dead and buried.
I don't like reviving brand names at all...
>> Edited by klassiekerrally on Tuesday 14th February 13:32
r988 said:
Good, hopefully now they can get back to designing something mindblowing to repalce the murcielago
Here here
Lamborghini is defined by its bold, new, outrageous, shocking ideas about what a high-performance car should look like; that Miura pastiche was none of those things. It wasn't an ugly car by any means, but building it would have done damage to the reputation of one of the bravest and original car companies ever known.
Hopefully Lambo were thinking the same thing, which would mean we can get back to being bludgeoned into amazemant by there next austentatious creation, instead of wondering what else they will be exhuming from the past.
I'd bet that if (when) their next new model happy-slaps our senses, we'll have forgotten all about the son of Miura.
No word about Walter de´Silva's Miura-project in this recent interview.
He said he wanted to do this, so maybe it was just a present from Lamborghini . . . Still this could've been a nice project. A bit strange though that they first said 'concept', then 'a few will be made', then 'probably not' and now this confusing 'PR' . . . Not good.
He said he wanted to do this, so maybe it was just a present from Lamborghini . . . Still this could've been a nice project. A bit strange though that they first said 'concept', then 'a few will be made', then 'probably not' and now this confusing 'PR' . . . Not good.
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