if you were a teenager in the 80s this might be your bedroom these might be your walls this might be your television and like many teens of the decade you’d have wanted one thing very very bad when that was launched I would like to see a rocket not a car if you were a celebrity of a financier if you were somebody building companies artists this is the car that you had to have very aggressive very unique very polarizing the good that was the logical evolution of the Miura shocking new set of proportions surface line work just defied everything that went before it looks like it’s moving and cause shadow off silhouette proportion and those lines are for me creating a Lamborghini but we were already very spawn director carelessness of our identity Megiddo is the Lamborghini Countach for every one for every driver for every one who can afford it no I think is a special car for special people is there such a thing as a typical Lamborghini purchaser the typical owner Lamborghini has an ego damn your ego up free they marketed tractors are named after it and one-off concept cars they even have an ego driving mode but the ego that Lamborghini wear is so proudly isn’t rooted in victories on the racetrack or world speed records but rather in severity angularity and aggression something Lamborghini refers to as the gandini line created by none other than famed designer Marc Kellogg and Deanie the same man who brought us cars like these but before razor sharp edges and scissor doors performance cars looked more like this Jaguar is a special breed of car if you think about cars going back particularly the 50s and 60s they were big on the front and trailing off to the rear try the 65 Corvette they were very soft organic forms it’s quite a different design language and then a car would come along that would append everything the insurer November the Milanovich enters a sandwich Inc when two Tolo staff Lamborghini who in visit alla Bertoni Belvedere is Alberto nepeta racer interesado add our own vestido cuesta del año que el estado president otto at arena the booth operation ellamy run and while inform the mirror would look like other performance cars of its time under the sheet metal a revolution occurred at the time all the winning racing car already had the engine behind the driver all the high performers Command Offutt OST producing car with the engine in front and so I told mr. Lamborghini why we do not make a car with rearranging I’m in trouble gimme that you say yes do it immediately yes do it and with the engine out of the way went the front could go lower and lower and lower so we arrived at what is often referred to as the way crystal castle call a caravan Toto jump or Dometic Otto Christopher may pure they were yellow Cooper cause a multiple you do a forest Rhema these forms before Dandini and others got ahold of them had mostly existed in the aeronautical world model competitions and science fiction now it had become the automotive trend of the 70s turn the engine longitudinal push the driver way forward back to the early you know the fighter plane reference where the canopy is forward in this long tail all that power back there pushing the capsule where the pilot is I mean that’s the imagery and the Countach was the ultimate expression of the wedge the Gandini line was explored in the late 60s and 70s by different Italian cars but the one that you could buy that was realized was the Countach tante vero Helicon touchin on a static set immediate Amenti metric Tata Tata subito lamorak Aviva Lera cozy do or equivalent if also today you see our car you see that you can identify so many line of the Countach and this really is a kind of message that we received from Gandini the car was able to shock an entire generation of people but really identify the dreaming to see something what can be the future of a super sport car and that future whether in green yellow black red or white is what the world now knows as the first modern super firm [Music]
