The original Lamborghini Miura
The Miura is back! Rumours of its revival have been sloshing around for a while as reported right here on PistonHeads (see link to our earlier story below), but it now seems that the iconic Italian supercar -- the machine that arguably kick-started the whole supercar genre -- is highly likely to return.
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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