The GREATEST Lamborghini of all time? Chris Harris vs Lamborghini Miura | Top Gear

Most important car of all time? Chris Harris pays tribute to the Lamborghini Miura - a supercar masterpiece born out of a feud between Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari. Smaller, lighter and more powerful than any of its contemporaries, the Miura reached speeds of 170mph+ and its engine had 350bhp - big numbers back in 1966. As for wing mirrors, well, who needs them?

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[ameba]

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

[stephenfarrell]

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!

[jotacalvo]

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.

[getplaning]

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.

[gerdhermann]

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

[davidsobel]

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

[riccardogazzoli]

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...

[fredmorrison]

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...

[_RCBiker]

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

[hsvracer]

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.

[bluetoes]

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.

[john]

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.

[gixerloon]

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.

[ameba]

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

[patrickomeagher]

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.

[garyseaton]

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

[TheSlowoldman]

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

[dazzaMusic]

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

[diogopsilva]

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.

[iantownsend]

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