#Lamborghini P400S Miura

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Lamborghini Miura S, 1968. The winner in the 60 years of Lamborghini category was this very early series  P400S Miura. The "upgraded" S version of Lamborghini's first mid/rear engined model was introduced at the Turin Motor Show in November 1968.

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Lamborghini Miura P400S

One of the most iconic supercars 1967 Lamborghini Miura P400! Designed by Marcello Gandini

Very few cars managed to change the automobile world like Miura, this ultimate sports car.

Only 764 Lamborghini Miuras were built from 1966 to 1973.

Sixty years ago, precisely on May 1963, “Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini SAS” was registered as a company. It was the first name of an industrial adventure that, starting from scratch, has revolutionized the automotive industry and created style icons, evolving up to becoming today the world-famous company “Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.

1965 Turin Auto Show, Lamborghini Automobili unveiled something out of this world, a masterpiece that has never seen before. A car? No, much more better, a chassis of a car.

The story says that at that event Nuccio Bertone was very fascinated by that chassis, so he approached Ferruccio Lamborghini and said: “I’m the one who can make the shoe to fit your foot”. Ferruccio of course agreed.

The body for that chassis was designed in only 4 months by the young Marcello Gandini and the final car was unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show and it was the highlight of the show. That car was the Lamborghini Miura.

Ferruccio's reaction? Disappointment. The first time he saw the car he said: "how am I supposed to put my foot in it? There's no hole, see?"

So they went back to work and 2 years later, at the 1968 Brussels Auto Show, Bertone unveiled the Miura Roadster, that was actually in a targa configuration. It was finished in a metallic light blue color, a slightly redesigned rear, no engine cover and, most importantly, it had no roof.

The Lamborghini Miura P400S is the car the is the definition of cool back in the day. If you owned a Miura then, you are definitely going places. Famous Stars owners of the Miura included Miles Davis Frank Sinatra, Elton John, and Rod Stewart.

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1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S

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Lamborghini Miura P400 SV 

The Spanish bull referred to as the Miura may have first entered the pop culture lexicon with the publication of Ernest Hemingway's enduring 1926 classic The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway's disaffected expatriates travel to Spain to watch the bullfights, and there they are impressed by the brutal capabilities of the Miura, a creature that is muscular, powerful, lithe, and menacing.Forty years later, Ferruccio Lamborghini introduced his automotive interpretation of the Miura, and in every way the new model lived up to the values ​​of its namesake. Replete with all the grace and power of Pamplona's bulls, the Miura P400 was a revolutionary sports car in every sense, from its transversely positioned mid/rear-mounted V-12 engine, to the sinewy and voluptuous coachwork designed by Bertone's Marcello Gandini.After progressing through the P400 S iteration unveiled at the Geneva Salon in March 1970, the Miura underwent one final development introduced in Geneva a year later. The resulting Miura P400 SV was available by special order only, and the SV (or Spinto Veloce) nomenclature instantly clarified that this was the most mechanically advanced Miura to emerge from Sant' Agata Bolognese.

To accommodate fiercer performance, the chassis was reinforced and the rear suspension was improved with larger wishbones. In combination with the fitting of larger wheels, this resulted in a wider rear track that necessitated sculpting wider rear fenders, adding further muscular character to Gandini’s original design. The proprietary Lamborghini V-12 was further tuned to develop 385 horsepower, a dividend of an additional 15 horsepower over the concurrent P400 S.

Among a combined output of approximately 900 total examples built, the P400 SV was built in a relatively modest quantity of 150 examples, making it the rarest of the three Miura variants. To this day the model remains prized by discerning collectors for its uprated performance and elevated cosmetics, signifiers of the most highly developed and advanced version of Lamborghini’s legendary bull.

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Ferruccio Lamborghini with the Miura P400 SV

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1968 Lamborghini Miura P400 by Bertone

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1967 Lamborghini Miura P400 Shot this beauty a while back for RM’s upcoming Monterey auction.

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Lamborghini Miura P400 S Millechiodi, 1969. A Miura P400 S, chassis number 4302, that left Sant'Agata Bolognese in November 1969, painted Blu Notte (dark blue). Following a series of Italian owners, in 1975 it became the property of Giovanni Sotgiu and Walter Ronchi, two important names in Lamborghini history because, in addition to their work at the "Lamborcar" dealership in Milan, they were the first owners of Bob Wallace's Miura Jota. Precisely in the spirit of recreating the Jota, the two transform the 400 S, damaged in an accident, into something much more racer-like. After a huge investment their Miura, now painted in Verde Scuro (dark green), was finished. It used so many rivets to join the body panels that the name Millechiodi (a thousand nails), came naturally. The car was restored in 2018 and certified by Lamborghini Polo Storico in 2020.

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Lamborghini Miura P400S

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1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 Coupe

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1970 Lamborghini Miura P400 S

The color is Luci del Bosco Metallizzato (Light of the Woods) with Gobi (beige) vinyl upholstery and cloth seat inserts. It’s hard to envision a more appropriate—and appealing—color combination in the era of gold shag carpet and Harvest Gold appliances.

A total of 338 examples of the Miura P400 S were built between 1968 and 1971.

Mike Maez, courtesy of Gooding & Company.