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Fifty-five years ago, Lamborghini did something that would shape the vocabulary of every V12 it built afterward. The Miura SV debuted in 1971, and with it came two letters that would reappear across decades of the brand’s most extreme creations: S and V. Super Veloce. Super fast.
Marcello Gandini drew a car in the early 1970s that broke every rule about what an automobile was supposed to look like. Penned at Bertone and engineered by Paolo Stanzani, the Lamborghini Countach arrived as a concept in 1971 and entered production in 1974 with a shape so alien, so flat, so aggress
In 1914, a fighting bull named Veneno, “poison” in Spanish, killed the celebrated matador José Sánchez Rodríguez in the ring. Over a century later, Lamborghini pulled that name from bullfighting history and bolted it to the most visually aggressive car the company had ever built. Every Lamborghini c
A white 1971 Lamborghini Miura SV secured the class award in Class G at the 2026 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, one of the most prestigious concours events in the world. The class, titled “From Carnaby Street to the Autostrada: The Swinging GT Driver,” celebrated the style-led grand tourers that
Before October 2005, every Lamborghini that rolled out of Sant’Agata Bolognese owed at least part of its shape to someone outside the factory gates. Carrozzeria Touring penned the 350 GT and 400 GT. Bertone gave the world the Miura. Even the Diablo’s final form bore the fingerprints of Chrysler’s st
Lamborghini staged its 60th birthday not as a single gala but as a rolling, continent-spanning calendar designed to put owners and their cars at the center of the celebration. The program kicked off in January with the reopening of a newly renovated Lamborghini Museum in Sant’Agata Bolognese, anchor
On the 60th anniversary of “Love Me Do,” released October 5, 1962, Lamborghini drove a 400 GT 2+2 through the streets of London on a route from Abbey Road Studios to Savile Row. English journalist and author Dylan Jones OBE narrated the accompanying video, connecting the car’s presence in 1960s Lond
Lamborghini recently curated a list of five records and firsts drawn from its back catalog, each tied to a model that changed the company’s trajectory. The Marzal, Miura, LM002, and Countach are all familiar to enthusiasts, but the particular achievements Lamborghini chose to spotlight tell a more r
When the British GT Championship finally resumed at Oulton Park on August 2, 2020, Lamborghini’s customer teams treated the occasion like a coronation. Barwell Motorsport’s Phil Keen and Adam Balon qualified on pole by posting the fastest time in the second session, then led every racing lap of the
Three of the four class championships still hung in the balance when the 2019 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season reached its final two 50-minute races at Spain’s Circuito de Jerez. Across the 13-turn, 2.751-mile circuit, consistency mattered more than outright heroics, and the results wou
For more than half a century, one of the most persistent myths in automotive cinema held that Paramount Pictures destroyed a Lamborghini Miura P400 while filming the opening sequence of the 1969 classic The Italian Job. The scene is seared into the memory of anyone who loves cars: an orange Miura gl
Stefano Domenicali, then Chairman and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, handed the keys of a freshly restored Miura SV to FIA President Jean Todt at the Rétromobile classic car show in Paris in February 2019. The ceremony took place at the Polo Storico stand, and the car in question, chassis #3673, wor
