I can't even began to think how crazy the Miura must've looked in the 60's

@ronpinto9588

2 жыл бұрын

I will tell you. was driving on Wishire Boulevard, in Losd Angeles, and as I passed the dividing LA/Beverly Hills sign in my brand new 1969 Corvette, out of the corner of my eye I saw this red Lamborghini Miura P400 on a dealer`s window. I slamed the brakes, parked and went over to se the beauty. The gentleman in the store told me that the car was $ 18,000, when I had payd $ 6,000 for my Corvette (same price of the Mercedes SL 380 then). It was a weird feeling, opening the door ans seig "Bertonne" under it. I have never forgotten that day.

@Fastvoice

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry. I lived in that time and never saw one IRL. Probably you wouldn't have either. 😉

@SubTroppo

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the '60s and being a child everything was new, and when you consider the mini-skirt, Concorde or TSR2 as well, exotic cars were among the new normal. The music was outrageous too . The Lambo still looks amazing though.

@b_rah

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronpinto9588 How much were those 18,000 in the 60s worth today?

@Alvaricokemaureira

2 жыл бұрын

@@b_rah$154.000 USD today

If I remember correctly the Road & Track review back then the author said he was on the NY State Thruway and was cruising along (don't remember what speed).A 911 cam up behind him and starting flashing their lights for him to move over so he proceeded to downshift to 3rd and left the 911 in the dust. Great stuff!

@jameswillard1

2 жыл бұрын

I remember that too, it was a wealthy guy that he made friends with and lived in his neighborhood

@john1703

10 ай бұрын

So it should. Approx twice the power.

@williamkaiser8067

Ай бұрын

I have that very article about 6 feet away right now. 168 was the top speed, the fastest R&T had driven up to that time on the road. And they italicized the TWO gears they dropped down to leave the 911S in the rear view. Great story!

I just spent two years rebuilding a Miura. It is the most pure, ridiculously engineered, beautiful and visceral car I have ever worked on. It is like a cast aluminum and stamped steel animal.

@Spencer18861

Ай бұрын

If by "ridiculously engineered" you mean "has glaring flaws that can literally destroy it" then yeah that's accurate

Having never driven any of them, I don’t know if it’s the greatest. But I can say one thing: it’s definitely the most beautiful.

@haceneboukralfa5542

2 жыл бұрын

specially in this coleur

@NZsarge1

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, absolutely gorgeous car. I also liked the recent concept Lamborghini did taking considerable inspiration from the Miura

@MishraArtificer

2 жыл бұрын

@@haceneboukralfa5542 It's easily one of the only cars that actively look GOOD in neon green.

@blaq.plaque

2 жыл бұрын

If u talking the “most beautiful", u gotta consider the Mercedes Benz 300sl as well

@wernerboyz1

2 жыл бұрын

Most beautiful Alfa Tipo

In car styling terms, this is 11/10. It is absolutely beauuuutifull.

@damirhlobik6488

11 ай бұрын

along with Ferrari 250 gto and Jaguar E type

Sorry guys but Marcello Gandini is the one and only designer of the Miura: Giorgetto Giugiaro never even took part on the project. Gandini became chief designer at Bertone when Giugiaro went working for Ghia in 1964...

@roverwaters3875

2 жыл бұрын

true

This is the kind of Top Gear we need on the TV. Enthusiasts waffling about cars. :)

@caprise-music6722

2 жыл бұрын

Word

@West4ea

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t this on the TV show?

@GIBBO4182

2 жыл бұрын

It IS like this…people won’t give it a chance though because they’re still butthurt over Clarkson

@opshredderytp

2 жыл бұрын

@@GIBBO4182 Well you've got a point there (the "butthurt over Clarkson" part)

@1_5RCBiker

2 жыл бұрын

@@GIBBO4182 Only when Chris has a section. Paddy and Freddie? Give over!

When I went to the auto shows as a kid in the late '60's and saw one of these for the first time it was jaw dropping! It became the most lusted after car of my youth...still to this day

In the early '70s I was attending the U of Central Florida. One day, driving home on SR 520 to Cape Canaveral in my Yukon Yellow Beetle, I spotted an orange slit in my rearview. It gained rapidly, and as it passed, the Miura's driver downshifted, and let the engine howl. The road was clear, so the driver needn't have dropped a gear, but I was grateful he did. I heard that same howl in this video. After 50 years it brought me back to that moment. What a day...

Having been lucky enough to spend some time in my mates Miura SV, I can say with hand on my heart, everything about it is an occasion. It's perfect, even when it leaks oil on my driveway.

@chriskappert1365

2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't leak oil , it marks its territory !

@MishraArtificer

2 жыл бұрын

It leaked oil on your driveway, and...you're not even mad. That oil splotch is merely a (VERY QUICKLY) rolling sculpture gracing you with its presence.

My favourite parts of the story were not included here. Building a super car was not Mr. Lamborghini's idea at all. His engineers came up with it on the side and had to convince him to let them develop and make it. The chassis was shown at an auto show before the body was designed, and the flurry of orders for a car that didn't exist yet convinced him to go ahead with it, the car that has defined the direction of the company ever since.

@PurpleCaliper

2 жыл бұрын

What was his idea with a car company then? Asking genuinely as I own an old SAME tractor which was made by Lamborghini and it is very well made, curious what else he wanted to build.

@bluetoes591

2 жыл бұрын

@@PurpleCaliper Making front engine GT cars like Ferrari was doing. All their other early models, the 350 GT, 400 GT, Jarama, Espada, Islero, were GT cars. Only the Muira, and then later the Countach deviated. The Muira was the first super car, and one of the first mid-engined street cars period.

@roverwaters3875

2 жыл бұрын

@@PurpleCaliper the ultimate class of production sports cars were the super GT's. Early 60's only 3 manufacturers were building such cars, Ferrari, Maserati and Aston Martin. there was no supercar class before Miura.

Yes. Absolutely one of the most beautiful, outstanding cars in history... Thank you, Enzo...

Can’t believe the man who designed this was 22, when I was 22 the cars I was drawing still had guns on them!

@kirovmedia6972

2 жыл бұрын

Quote of Richard hammond

@JUSTiNSWORLD

2 жыл бұрын

TAKING DELIVERY OF A BRAND NEW LAMBORGHINI URUS w/ NO KEYS‼️😳 m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/mmah1LuqZdzPmto.html

@xxxxxtrxxx13

2 жыл бұрын

I read that in his voice

Marcello Gandini takes full credit for the design of this beauty. I don't know where topgear got the idea that Giugiaro was involved in this project.

@Blakeoffire

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed ! That line had me going 'pardon me.. ? ?' ... Giugiaro most certainly did not design the Miura... I suggest anyone search for Davide Cironi's excellent interview with Gandini from 2018 - hit the Eng Subs if need be and enjoy a rare interview with this design legend.

@diogopsilva

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blakeoffire I saw that one! What a legend that man is, and surprisingly humble and low key for the guy who created some os the most iconic designs of automotive history. Miura, Countach, Stratos, Carabo, Marzal, Montreal, this man's portfolio is just outstanding, one of the best car designers this world has ever seen!

Agreed, It still is one of the most beautiful cars ever produced

One of my all time favorite cars. Countless times I've imagined myself in the opening scene of the original Italian Job (minus the abrupt stop). I love the origin story too. Another car (along with the Ford GT-40) that owes it's existence to Enzo Ferrari making someone reeeally angry. Chris Harris is a great presenter as well. He's great at capturing that passion and enthusiasm cars like this inspire in those of us with a life-long love for cars.

@Orcawhale1

2 жыл бұрын

It was the other way around, it was Ford who tried to screw over Enzo Ferrari, which made him back out of the deal. The GT40 story is actully a story about how a corporation tried to screw over a business owner and succeeding in doing so.

@BubbaSmurft

2 жыл бұрын

"On days like this..."

@patrickomeagher9868

2 жыл бұрын

@@Orcawhale1 I didn't know that. Can't say I'm surprised. The 'big three' are infamous for that kind of dirty pool. I actually love Ferraris, and Enzo definitely earned some bragging rights. Ferraris and Lamborghinis are the kind of cars that make your whole day just seeing one on the street.

@-A.n.d.r.e.w-

2 жыл бұрын

haha, the version told in Ford vs Ferrari certainly slanted it in Ford's favor. History is told by the winners and all that. Either way, awesome story for both the GT40 and the Miura! Though it says an awful lot about about the level of Ferrari that so many great stories revolve around people trying to beat them. Kinda like the 911 GT3 today - always the benchmark that everyone wants to be.

I first became aware of the Miura when I watched the Italian Job as a kid, and just fell in love with the car, the spine tingling, back of the neck hair raising exhaust note, the shape, just so evocative to me back then, the Miura after all these years remains my holy grail car and my all time favourite Lamborghini, and to be honest unless I'm fortunate enough to win big on the lotto, a car I'll never have or probably never even drive, you're a fortunate man Chis Harris to have this privilege.

When I was a student in London in 1969, there was a Muira in the window of Heal's shop on the Tottenham Court Road. OMG.

What a beautiful car

A Miura and a Lusso in the same video...... TWO of the most beautiful cars ever made....... I like the tractor too.

The Italian Job intro' featuring this car and the hauntingly melodic 'On day's like these' by Matt Monro is perhaps the finest intro to any film yet.

@74jeepcj6

2 жыл бұрын

I concur 👍

the 250 gt berlinetta lusso is a work of art... just look at this beauty!

I saw Miura at Beaulieu. Pictures don’t do it justice it’s stunning

I could watch him talk about that car for another 15-20 minutes

I have been a car enthusiast since 1965. In my opinion the most beautiful supercar ever in the history of the automobile is the Lamborghini Miura. The lines in a way mimic curve for curve the golden girl in Goldfinger.

I could literally watch Chris and the Miura for hours. More Chris, and more videos like this, please.

I am very much not a Lamborghini kinda guy. But the miura is special. It is drop dead gorgeous from every angle and it lives firmly as the best looking mid engine car ever to bless the roads

@brandonfromlondonuk3484

2 жыл бұрын

i am curious what do you prefer over a Lambo ?

@isaks3243

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonfromlondonuk3484 my 1973 Volvo 1800ES, and the Mercedes 300sl gullwing. The other angular doorstop looking lambos tho are really not my kind of car tho. Don't really like their styling since I prefer flowing lines.

Chris Harris is so entertaining. He’s the best!

@brandonfromlondonuk3484

2 жыл бұрын

hes is not a Clarkson but a close 2nd

Few years ago the local art museum had a "Concourse d'Elegance" with about 20 late 50's to early 70's Italian exotic and sports cars. About half of them were one offs or concept cars. They even had a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. Every car in that museum was a work of art in its own way, but the one that really stuck out to me as the most radical was the 1968 Miura, bright orange. Mainly because it was an actual production car and IMO it looked better proportioned, more beautiful than all the concept cars they had on display. And it actually performed, forced Ferrari's hand to go mid engine on all their future top spec road cars.

I saw a Miura a few years ago at an auto show. What's breathtaking is how low to the ground it is. The roof is 41.3 inches off the ground. By comparison a 1992 Mazda Miata is 48 inches. The Miata would look like an SUV next to a Miura.

It looks crazy good while we are bringing 2022 to an end.. Imagine it in 1966???

Most beautiful car, amazing origin story told by Chris harris - absolute class Top Gear

Please continue to do videos like this one! I absolutely love the story mixed with the car and thank you, Chris for making it feel so personal. Keep it up!

A return to Top Gear level story telling, but still new and unique - keep it up Chris and Co.!

Its such an icon, its why The Italian Job is one of the greatest openings in movie culture

I had a Testors model of the Miura SV Jota. I love the look of it. Richard Hammond also did a review of the Lamborghini Miura on Top Gear. Thank you.

In the 70s I had the chance to just sit inside one Miura. It was amazing

Absolutely the greatest lambo of all time.

Top Gear, can you give Chris a proper length videos for KZread please. 5mins just isn't long enough, especially for something as incredible as a Miura.

The Sophia Loren of cars what a beauty😍😍😍

I cant get over how the wheels sit in the arches... what a design...

Stanzani & Dallara said numerous times the car was styled by Marcello Gandini.

Gotta love the origin story of Lamborghini! Just to give Ferrari the middle finger!

That intro is epic

And it’s raining as usual in a top gear video.

If it weren’t for the Miura, every modern/classic supercar we know today would’ve never existed.

I had a 6' poster of a Miura on my bedroom wall back in the 60's - sadly that's as close as I have come to owning one of these beauties!

The first actual supercar was the bugatti Aerogith.

@sylvainbougie7269

2 жыл бұрын

The 1930 had incredible cars, Talbot-Lago, Hispano-Suiza, Duisenberg, etc

It's pretty well established that Marcello Gandini designed the Miura. Bertone was too busy, so he handed the project to his young apprentice, Gandini.

was gandini.in italy no one doubt of it. well done chris.you're the first english man to pronunce miura in the riht way.

haha that quip at the end about the mirrors was a great ending point

Amazing car,. but you really get an idea of how small the cars of that era were: Chris looks like Goliath in the driver's seat!

Its still a crazy good car today even though its no longer up there Numbers wise the experience of driving a Miura spiritedly cant be duplicated. Shame about the current prices though.

The designer, Mercello Gandini passed away 2 days ago. Rest in peace, you genius visionary

Love all of this but that shot of Enzo after calling Ferruccio "a farmer"... LMAO!!! That's brilliance right there.

You could have made a phone call to Iain Tyrrell to know who designed the Miura, you know :)

Harris is great at sharing his Enthusiasm and love for cars .

Can you do this but for the Vauxhall lotus carlton plz?!

@BrikMT

2 жыл бұрын

Have you seen vbh from 5th gear driving one?

@brandonfromlondonuk3484

2 жыл бұрын

why ? that car is in scrap heap where it belongs

@lewisburt3750

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonfromlondonuk3484 ever heard of 40 RA and how this car was faster then the M5 and Mercedes AMGS of the day and faster just slower than a Ferrari Testorossa.

I’ll be humming ‘days like these’ by Matt monro after watching that. Beautiful car 🏁

Gorgeous masterpiece

I dare to say: the most beautiful car ever? Probably, but definitely in the top 3.

@MishraArtificer

2 жыл бұрын

@Afghanistan Bananastand I'm still calling the Aston-Martin Vanquish to be the most beautiful.

@joseesquivel2414

2 жыл бұрын

Ferrari 250 GTO, Aston Martin One 77, Ford GT 40, De Tomaso Pantera... Rivals.

My favourite car of all time - incredibly beautiful!

This clip just needed Matt Monro singing On Days Like These, and maybe some mafia thugs with machine guns ...

@rogbrown1458

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. A real Italian job for sure. Beautiful. Both car and song. Rog. P s records.

Fun fact: You don't need mirrors when you are travelling 170mph. Everything is behind you, or soon to be behind you!

It's a Gandini design. It's also one of the most seductively-styled cars of all time.

There's a lot of coincidences going on with me since a week. I saw Top Gear Season 3 Episode 4 or 5 (4 is more likely), in which Richard Hammond drove Miura and its 2nd version or something by Jay Kay. Believe that!🤩

@Markycarandbikestuff

2 жыл бұрын

That was a great clip, the Miura Hamster drives is Twiggys old car (a 69 P400S), Jay Kay's old car (i think he sold it ?), was a 71 SV like this 72 in this vid, the SV is the better version IMO.

I may never have one :( but I have scored both of Simon Kidstons definitive books on the Muira. They are some consolation. I understood that the design credit is well settled.

@roverwaters3875

2 жыл бұрын

it is

@dzefrejrulez

Жыл бұрын

You lucky guy! I was hecitating to long before spendig 250€ for The Miura book . When i decided, it was too late and i really regret it :(

People in the 60's must have thought the future arrived when this Miura came out.

one of the best post clarkson piece

I'd like P400 SV tech in an P400S body. I think the SV doesn't look as nice, but it does have superior updates.

Chris Harris nailing it again!

Was waiting for this :)

I think the Countach was the gamechanger for Lambo after the film Cannonball Run. It put Lambo on the map as an option against the other fast Italian manufacturer.

Where did he get that jumper from? I need one

Cu siguranță a rămas printre cele mai frumoase mașini. Lamborghini a fost un om foarte creativ , integru și ambițios.

Now that's true car journalism

Actually part of this is just inaccurate: Ferruccio opened his Ferrari, managed to fix the problem using an adapted version of his tractors' clutch and then went to Enzo Ferrari, offering him the solution to those breakdowns. At that point Enzo answered Ferruccio "what do you want? It's your fault if you're unable to drive my cars, go back to your tractors!"

most beautiful car ever made imo

Okay you had me at Muira, but you made me pass out with that 250 Lusso.

That fluo is absolutely stunning.

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

‘Fluo’? What’s that?

@nobody-wk6ej

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtheistOrphan Basically neon anything.

@AtheistOrphan

2 жыл бұрын

@@nobody-wk6ej - Oh right, thanks.

I'm really not a car fanatic. But there are cars which made history, and this car it's one of them. Immortal design, incredible engeneering for the time being. It's probably the only "original" Lamborghini (tractors excluded). If someday I'd be super rich, Lamborghini Miura and Ferrari F355 would be the cars I'd want in my garage :'-)

This car contributed to one of the best opening scenes of a movie ever in the original “The Italian Job”

kinda funny this was posted at the same time ferrari won the bahrain gp.

The Miura is art

THEY HAVE TO REMAKE THIS BABY

Great video

4:24 Clarkson called that "the italian monkey driving position"

I think it's about time Top Gear started making and uploading their videos in 4K

It's so BEAUTIFUL

Poetry in motion ❤️

what a beauty.

The host has the story sort of right. Ferruccio Lamborghini had a white 59 Ferrari 250 GT coupe that had clutch problems. After repeated attempts to get the problem resolved through the Ferrari dealership, Mr. Lamborghini made an appointment to see Mr. Ferrari to appeal his case. He brought a clutch from one of his tractors that would fit the Ferrari and was stronger than the Ferrari clutch. Mr. Lamborghini suggested that, Ferrari use Lamborghini's stronger clutches in his cars. Ferrari said, "Your problem is, you're use to driving tractors." Mr. Lamborghini left and started Automobili Lamborghihi in 1963. The rest is history.

The formula of a supercar. The Miura is a groundbreaking car that showed the world how supercars are made. The first ever supercar.

I think I saw this very car around 15 years ago on the King's Rd Chelsea. It looked otherworldly!!

@Markycarandbikestuff

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky guy, it's my dream to see one of these cars in the metal, only seen pics and watched vids like this.

@howardmckenna

2 жыл бұрын

@@Markycarandbikestuff... The lucky guy is the one that owned/was driving it.

From a time when we knew how to design beautiful automobiles...

The most beautiful fo sho but fitting the V12 transverse was not the best idea.

A modern homage to the Mura would be great!

@Emilioh888

2 жыл бұрын

already done by lambo. the miura concept 16 yrs ago!

At the very same time as the Ferrari/Lamborghini spat, Ferrari was negotiating a takeover by Ford. This fell through in May 1963, and Ford began in earnest to develop a Le Mans car in house (well, in the newly-established British in-house subsidiary): the GT40. As a racecar, its development was no secret and prototypes were easily accessible. So the originality of the Miura lies not in its design, but in the idea that the GT40's design could be adapted for a road car. The only departure was the transverse engine layout.

A truly beautiful machine even in the present day.

My dream car right there! So glad I at least have the kyosho model 😆.