1971 Lamborghini Miura SV

The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car built by Lamborghini in Italy between 1966 and mid-engine layout 1973.Ein has been used successfully in competition, including by the Ford GT40 and Ferrari 250 LM at Le Mans.De Tomaso had a road car with this layout, produces the Vallelunga, but otherwise cars for the road were designed almost uniformly front-engined, rear-wheel drive Fahrzeuge.Der Miura was a trendsetter, the one that the mid-engined layout de rigueur among two-seater high performance supercars gemacht.Es named after theSpanish ranch Miura, whose bulls have a proverbial attack instinct called.

Styling

Inspired by the Ford GT40, the Miura show astonished showgoers at the Turin Motor Show in 1965, where only the chassis was shown, with multiple orders platziert.Später despite the absence of an actual bodyMarcello Gandini of Bertone was, who would later go to almost all of Lamborghini's car to design chosen for the body to entwerfen.Beide body and chassis have been five months later at the Geneva Motor Show 1966 was a sensation to life gerufen.Es, with its flamboyant bodywork and unusual engine and clam-shell opening hoods on both the front and back of the Autos.Es was a small trunk in the rear of the very tail behind the engine.

Miura models

P400

Early Miura, known internally as P400S, have been through a motorischen3, 9-liter version of the famous Lamborghini V12 engine mounted transversely and producing350 hp (260 kW) .275 1966-1969 P400S were a success for Lamborghini despite its then had to steep $ 20,000 USD price (approx. $ 114,000 in today's terms) produziert.Die original Miura engines, the transmission in thesump of the engine and the gearbox shared the engine oil for Schmierung.Dies required frequent and consistent oil changes.

, P400S

The P400S Miura, also known as the Miura S, made its introduction at the Turin Motorshow in Novermber 1968, where the original chassis was introduced 3 years zuvor.Es was slightly different from theP400 with its newly added power windows, bright chrome trim around external windows, new overhead inline console with new rocker switches, minor revision engine internals, notched trunk end panels (what a little more space for luggage) were überarbeitet.Motor changesgood for an additional 20 to PS.Andere revisions were anterior to the physical well-being, such as the glove box door is limited, reversed position of cigarette lighter and windshield wiper switch and single release handles for the rear and Miura P400S Körperabschnitte.338 were between December 1968 and Marchproduced in 1971 ....

P400SV

The last and most famous Miura, the presented Miura SV P400SV or other timing, bigger valves and altered carbs, which increased fuel consumption, so much so that the work of a larger 110-litertank as an option angeboten.Dies gave the engine an additional 15 hp engine and a discontinuous 385.Der swamp that the gearbox now had its lubrication system separate from the engine, which allows the use of appropriate types of oil for the gearbox and the engine.The SV may be different from its predecessors from its lack of "eyebrows" over the headlights and wider fenders are differentiated to have the new 9-inch wheels and Pirelli tires Cinturato unterzubringen.150 SVs produced, including one by Frank Sinatrabelonged.

P400 Jota

This one-off Miura (# 747) was the development of Lamborghini Development Driver Bob Wallace in 1972, was initially a undnur gebaut.Lamborghini were as powerful test mule for future Miuraforced to sell off this car because of financial problems in the late seventies Jahren.Im 1980, when the delivery was the driver and one passenger survived without this model and Verletzungen.Lamborghini has built a replica of this car since.

P400 SVJ

Once the customer heard about the Jota, they requested their own "Jota" Miura SVJ called, and only 5 were built so that all you have left.

One of the most high-profile model was the Metallic Red Burgundy model (# 4934), former property to that of one of the company's best customer, the Shah HIHvon Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, he stored this car under armed guardwith another SV in Royal Palace in Tehran.

Later, when he was fleeing from the country during the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the later cars with lots of other confiscated by the Iranian government and was in Dubai in 1995 verkauft.Im 1997, this car through an auction for BrooksNicholas Cage sells at U.S. $ 490,000 and became the brand's previous highest price at auction verkauft.Cage has been sold since the car in 2002.

Roadster

Another recurring items was issued, the Miura Roadster (actually more of a targa-model, but without any removable roof) as the publicity he gebautStunt.Nachdem at several auto salons the car was ona group of companies in the metal business, which it presented in a display vehicle to the possibilities of using their various metal alloys exists in cars verkauft.Das car today and was often replicated.

P400 SVJ Spider

This version of the Miura was actually displayed in 1981 at the Geneva Motor Show by Lamborghini, shortly after the new CEO PatrickMimran assumed Fabrik.Das car was actually the yellow Miura Sat the Geneva Motor Show in 1971, in 1980 in Spider reconstructed by the Swiss Lamborghini importer, Lambo engine AG vorgestellt.Der Miura SVJ Spider at the Lamborghini stand was established in 1981 with the other new models (Jalpa and LM002), with wide wheels and a rear wingfeature appears in the context of the brand's revival, it was a prototype for a alsmöglich, limited series of Miura Spider.

details

Early Miura's were notorious for being a problem was Brandgefahr.Das's decision to use Weber 40 IDL 3C1 carburetors which were designed exclusively for racing and weren'Lamborghinit was on the road suitable for verursacht.Das problem if the car sat idling (eg at traffic lights), the area above the reactors with fuel which often ignited when the car accelerates from a stop gefüllt.Einer the Lamborghini's engineers developed a modification for the carburetors, which could fuel a return geschaffen.Ferrari, the same carburetor used in one of their cars, and suffered the same problems, Lamborghini's use of modification in order to solve it

Some other interesting details.The location of the fuel tank istan the front of the vehicle causes less weight on the front as the fuel tank is lighter (closer to empty), making the car more difficult to 150 + MPH behandeln.Ein another detail, that the doors of a bull'shorns when they opened wide (Lamborghini's logo itself shows resemble a wild bull).

In 2004, Sports Car International named this car number four on the list of Top Sports Cars beidedie the 1960s and 1970s sports car Jahre.Das car was number four on the list of top sports car of all time

Technical data

motor
configuration.60 degree V12 engine capacity DOHCEngine: 3929cc350 hp (261 kW) at 7000 rpm (base) to 370 hp (276 kW) at 7700 revolutions per minute (S) 385 hp (287 kW) at 7850 revolutions per minute (SV)
performance
Maximum speed: 288 km / h (179 mph) 0 -100 km / h: 5.5 second quarter mile: ~ 14 seconds