Lamborghini Countach

Lamborghini celebrates the Countach’s 50th anniversary with a limited series modern adoption of the Countach

In August 2021, Lamborghini is releasing 112 units of the much anticipated Countach LPI 800-4. The Countach contains a V12 6.5-liter engine and a 48-volt electric motor, together resulting in an 802 horsepower car. It can accelerate from zero to sixty in less than three seconds and has a top speed of 221 miles per hour.

Fifty years ago, at the Geneva Motor Show, Lamborghini unveiled the LP 500 Countach - a car unlike any other. Though it wasn’t Lamborghini’s first supercar, it changed the scope of cars. Unlike previous cars, the Countach used a partial frame rather than a full one, making it light. After the Geneva Motor Show, the car went viral and orders started coming in immediately, and in a rush to get production going, Lamborghini had to use the original prototype for a crash test in '1974. Afterward, what remained of the car disappeared.

Then, in 2017, 43 years after the crash, a customer asked the Polo Storico, Lamborghini’s official classic car department, to recreate the original car. Polo Storico started gathering everything they could about the original car, including meeting minutes, spare parts, and blueprints. Everything, down to the wheels and the original yellow color. After 25,000 hours of work, Lamborghini presented the recreation of the original Countach at the 2021 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este.

More Resources:

• https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en/models/limited-series/countach-lpi-800-4

• https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/13/lamborghinis-countach-lpi-800-4-is-an-802-horsepower-hybrid-supercar/

• Recreation of the Countach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auqHQAD7tLg