Lamborghini – Countach 25th Anniversary (1990)

Countach! Unheard of emotions, sublime innovations and bewitching superlatives. A car the like of which had never been witnessed before. A true superstar was born with the Countach.
The incredible wedge shape was penned by Marcello Gandini – just 27 years old. The front end morphs smoothly into the extreme incline of the windscreen. And we see scissor doors designed into a production car for the first time. The design study for the Countach was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in 1971. The production model debuted at the Paris Motor Show in the autumn of 1973 – careering right into the middle of the first oil crisis. But Lamborghini were convinced that the Countach would buck the circumstances and sell anyway. The Countach continued in production through five series until 1991 and this sports car is the most important model in the history of Lamborghini. Up until the Countach, every new Lamborghini model was an innovation – there was absolutely no design DNA. A break with the predecessor followed at every stage. But further down the line, the style and proportions of all later Lamborghini models were influenced by the Countach. The Diablo, the Murciélago and the Aventador were developed on the basis of the Countach’s design concept. Styled by Horacio Pagani over the original design, the Lamborghini 25th Anniversary Countach was the last version in the model’s production run lasting 17 years. This car still wears the original and unique factory colour for the model – ‘Arancio Miura’ or orange – especially requested by the first owners to match their earlier LP400 ‘Periscopio’ Countach.