The Techno of this year Classica (29. March - 01 April 2006) stands with Automobili Lamborghini completely in the indication of the 35-jährigen of anniversary of the Lamborghini COUNT oh. To this cause the steeped in tradition manufacturer of supersports cars of two models on the world largest fair presents classical automobiles approximately around the topic: Beside one COUNT oh of LP 400 the Lamborghini is to be seen COUNT oh to 25°. Both vehicles originate from the Lamborghini collection of the work museum in Sant' Agata Bolognese. The vehicles shown in resounds to 7, conditions 509. 
When Lamborghini and the Turiner Design house Bertone on that presented Geneva salon 1971 their newest common project for the first time, the visitors the breath came to a hold. Which they got to see, was not only the first draft of a new Lamborghini. Rather the extremely wedge-shaped study, which kauerte before them, embodied the most radical and most futuristic Design concept of a supersports car of that time. The silhouette and the wing doors swinging upward reminded more of a fighter plane than of an automobile. For the revolutionary Design like already before with the Miura, the Bertone coworker Marcello Gandini was responsible. Its name: Lamborghini COUNT oh LP 500.
When Lamborghini and the Turiner Design house Bertone on that presented Geneva salon 1971 their newest common project for the first time, the visitors the breath came to a hold. Which they got to see, was not only the first draft of a new Lamborghini. Rather the extremely wedge-shaped study, which kauerte before them, embodied the most radical and most futuristic Design concept of a supersports car of that time. The silhouette and the wing doors swinging upward reminded more of a fighter plane than of an automobile. For the revolutionary Design like already before with the Miura, the Bertone coworker Marcello Gandini was responsible. Its name: Lamborghini COUNT oh LP 500.
The abbreviation behind the name stood for „longitudinal posteriore “and designated the type of mounting of the twelve-cylinder engine: in the back lengthwise. The number informed about the capacity of the V12 with 60 degrees to cylinder angles: Five litres. The name was meant as many an expression from the piemontesischen dialect and as greatly, wonderfully, unbelievably. Bertone is to have proclaimed this, as it for the first time the finished drafts Gandinis saw and the present Ferruccio Lamborghini found on the fact that this is the correct name for the car. And unbelievably were also performance data, which were indicated: 440 HP and a maximum speed of 300 km/h. No sports car of the time could over-bid these values.
The resonance on the study was so good that one decided in Sant' Agata COUNT oh in series to build. During the testing phase in the months after the salon it turned out that Gandini had been too optimistic in view to the thermal conditions of the engine somewhat. Also the stability of the high speed driving work did not correspond yet to the desires. Engineers seized therefore 1972 to the well-known and proven 12-Zylinder with 4 litres capacity. Accordingly also the name in LP 400 was changed. Inlets in the flanks and large scoops improved the cooling air household. They let look still more martialischer COUNT oh and gave it its concise line, which let it become the absolute sports car icon.
The resonance on the study was so good that one decided in Sant' Agata COUNT oh in series to build. During the testing phase in the months after the salon it turned out that Gandini had been too optimistic in view to the thermal conditions of the engine somewhat. Also the stability of the high speed driving work did not correspond yet to the desires. Engineers seized therefore 1972 to the well-known and proven 12-Zylinder with 4 litres capacity. Accordingly also the name in LP 400 was changed. Inlets in the flanks and large scoops improved the cooling air household. They let look still more martialischer COUNT oh and gave it its concise line, which let it become the absolute sports car icon.
The public got the finished Serienwagen however only 1973 in Geneva to see. Contrary to the study of 1972 the framework consisted not of square tubes but of round pipes. Instead of steel sheet aluminum was used for the body. That lowered the dry weight from 1.130 kg to 1.060 kg. Of six the webers 375 HP carried and floated 45 DCOE out carburetors beaconed engine COUNT oh on a maximum speed of over 300 km/h. Thus the Lamborghini was COUNT oh LP 400 the fastest series automobile of its time.
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