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Lamborghini Countach


Hear the name Countach and you instantly visualise the best arresting supercar of the accomplished 25 years. While amazing permutations of Ferraris appear and go, you apperceive what you're accepting with the Countach, whether in its purest aboriginal anatomy as styled by Marcello Gandini, or the adapted iterations active beneath scoops and wings: a authentic achievement wedge, powered by a longitudinal V12 of 4 or 5 litres.It was to accept been accepted by the archetypal cardinal only, but the news goes that, back Gandini's bang-up Nuccio Bertone saw the aboriginal car wheeled out of the workshops, he exclaimed 'Countach', a bounded Piedmontese announcement of admiration for which there is no accurate translation, and a fable was born.

The architecture is absolutely straightforward, and the engines, as one specialist puts it, are 'bulletproof', but there's a lot of it and things do break. It is accessible to affliction for a Countach for beneath than £500 per year, but the cars' actual attitude can accomplish big bills. In this guide, Paul Hardiman strips abroad some of that mystique.

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