A Winter's Tale: Time for Tea?

Forget the Urus, the Miura is Lamborghini's ultimate snow car

Typical Lamborghini owners hardly ever drive their cars in the rain, let alone snow, but then again the protagonist of this story isn't a typical owner.

The Shah of Persia was, as you might expect, quite an interesting man. He bore the unassuming title of 'King of Kings', but it seems a more appropriate moniker may well have been 'King of Cars'. From the modern G-Wagen, which his request for a civilian version of the then military-only vehicle helped create, to the Maserati 5000GT, built after he asked Giulio Alfieri to slot a modified 5-litre engine from the 450S into a 3500GT, his fingerprints can be found throughout automotive history. This video, however, tells a different story.

It's yet another great production by Simon Kidston, whose work we've been bingeing on since that RUF film. This one tells the story of the Shah of Persia's need for a car to drive from his personal residence in Switzerland to the ski resort in St Moritz. The obvious choice for a man such as the Shah was, of course, a Lamborghini Miura with specially commissioned studded winter tyres and another excellent video ensues. If you want to check out some more of Simon's videos, and you should, then you can check out his Vimeo page here.