Gandini had already unveiled similar wedge-shaped concept cars for Lamborghini competitors, including the mostly-forgotten Lamborghini Espada. He tapped Marcello Gandini of Bertone to design a new concept that would include a more angular geometric design. By the late 1960s, Ferruccio Lamborghini was ready to take his company to the next level with a new and exciting model to build on Miura’s success. The Original Lamborghini Countach LP400 1974 Design “ Countach” perfectly describes the high-performance exotic car with an astounding design that changed Lamborghini forever. The term stuck, and the Countach was born. The word conveys a sense of startled astonishment or wonder with a touch of slight concern.Īfter long hours into the night designing the car, week after week, Gandini and his team started using the word as a joke in an effort to keep up morale. There is no literal translation to any other language from Piedmontese for the word “Countach.” If people were surprised by the Miura, the Countach shocked the world. Usually used as an expletive and commonly written in English with an exclamation mark. The car that sat on more male bedroom walls than any other. When asked about his inspiration for the piece, he later commented that he’d sensed an ‘infinite scream passing through nature.’ Back in 1971, when the Countach was first unveiled, it too sent an infinite scream through the automotive industry, a scream that resonates to this day.It’s a great word, “Countach.” The word originated from the province of Piedmont, an area of northwestern Italy bordering France and Switzerland. The Lamborghini Countach (/ k u n t /) is a rear mid-engine. At the time, Munch recalled that he had been out for a walk at dusk when suddenly the setting sun turned the clouds a blood red. LAMBORGHINI HURACN TECNICA MODEL CAR ON A SCALE OF 1:43 BY MR COLLECTION. It packed the shock value of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream” from 1893. It landed into the automotive world like an alien spacecraft and left an indelible lasting impact. To be honest though, the original Countach was more shocking than beautiful. The first Countach shaped the Lamborghini design DNA like no other car the new Countach translates that unconventional and edgy character into the future,” says head of Lamborghini Centro Stile, Mitja Borkert. “Whenever I look at it, the Countach gives me goose bumps and serves as the perfect reminder to design every future Lamborghini in a visionary and futuristic way.
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