![]() The original’s flank-mounted NACA ducts has morphed into a larger almost triangular intake. In the end, the modern Countach looks like a collection of characteristic Countach design cues applied to a modern descendant of the original. Borkert was inspired by the original LP500 concept’s purity of form, the early production LP400 “Periscopica” roof, and the brawn of the flared LP5000 QV model. Part of the original Countach’s appeal was its outlandishness – the name comes from slang that translates roughly to “Holy Shit!” The original car was seared into the world consciousness half a century ago and so the likelihood that Borkert’s version would have anything like the impact of the original, while being recognizable as a Countach, was pretty much zero.Īnd the car, which will cost around $2.6 million, is a pastiche of past versions of the Countach. This sentiment is not shared by all those who love the original cars, as our resident Countach owner, Matt Farah, can attest to. While Gandini was no part of the creation of the new Countach LP 800-4 (Borkert didn’t even tell him about the new car, initially), Lamborghini eventually gave the 82-year-old supercar godfather a preview of the new car. “I felt like a child when I met him in Turin,” says Borkert, a man with 20 years of design experience. The company had previously dabbled in retro-futurism with the 2006 Miura concept car, which never made it beyond the auto show stage. Borkert’s idea (although he was surely not alone in daydreaming about recreating the Countach) was to create what he calls “the Countach for the 21 stCentury.” He claims to have had no interest in fashioning a retro design. When Borkert arrived at Lamborghini six years ago from Porsche, he says he came with “two or three big ideas.” Naturally, one was a re-birth of the Countach. “The Countach defined our design language,” says Mitja Borkert, Lamborghini’s head of design. For a long while it was the only Lamborghini. Through various owners, both beneficial and tragic, there was always the descendants of the Countach. But the truth is that the fundamental elements of the Countach concept never went away they had just evolved through the decades. That it took the company until 2021 to revive the Countach, 30 years after the last of them went out of production, at least in name, is pretty stunning. Lamborghini would be one more name on the trash heap of Italian automotive history along with Bizzarrini, OSCA, and Siata. There are no scissor-action “Lambo doors.” Without the Countach, there is almost certainly no Lamborghini at all. Without the Countach there is no Diablo or Murcielago or Aventador. 2022 Lamborghini Countach: 800-HP Nostalgia Bombīut nothing defines the brand quite like Marcello Gandini’s radically low and wedgy mid-engine masterwork.The New Countach Is a Cynical Cash Grab.The $2.64M Lamborghini Countach Has Sold Out. ![]()
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