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Most important car of all time? Chris Harris pays tribute to the Lamborghini Miura - a supercar masterpiece born out of a feud between Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari. Smaller, lighter and more powerful than any of its contemporaries, the Miura reached speeds of 170mph+ and its engine had 350bhp - big numbers back in 1966. As for wing mirrors, well, who needs them?
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@am0eba168 2 года назад

I can't even began to think how crazy the Miura must've looked in the 60's

@ronpinto9588 2 года назад

I will tell you. was driving on Wishire Boulevard, in Losd Angeles, and as I passed the dividing LA/Beverly Hills sign in my brand new 1969 Corvette, out of the corner of my eye I saw this red Lamborghini Miura P400 on a dealer`s window. I slamed the brakes, parked and went over to se the beauty. The gentleman in the store told me that the car was $ 18,000, when I had payd $ 6,000 for my Corvette (same price of the Mercedes SL 380 then). It was a weird feeling, opening the door ans seig "Bertonne" under it. I have never forgotten that day.

@Fastvoice 2 года назад

Don't worry. I lived in that time and never saw one IRL. Probably you wouldn't have either. 😉

@SubTroppo 2 года назад

I grew up in the '60s and being a child everything was new, and when you consider the mini-skirt, Concorde or TSR2 as well, exotic cars were among the new normal. The music was outrageous too . The Lambo still looks amazing though.

@b_rah 2 года назад

@@ronpinto9588 How much were those 18,000 in the 60s worth today?

@Alvaricokemaureira 2 года назад

@@b_rah$154.000 USD today

@getplaning 2 года назад

I just spent two years rebuilding a Miura. It is the most pure, ridiculously engineered, beautiful and visceral car I have ever worked on. It is like a cast aluminum and stamped steel animal.

@Spencer18861 2 месяца назад

If by "ridiculously engineered" you mean "has glaring flaws that can literally destroy it" then yeah that's accurate

@jotacalvo 2 года назад

Having never driven any of them, I don’t know if it’s the greatest. But I can say one thing: it’s definitely the most beautiful.

@haceneboukralfa5542 2 года назад

specially in this coleur

@NZsarge1 2 года назад

Agreed, absolutely gorgeous car. I also liked the recent concept Lamborghini did taking considerable inspiration from the Miura

@MishraArtificer 2 года назад

@@haceneboukralfa5542 It's easily one of the only cars that actively look GOOD in neon green.

@blaq.plaque 2 года назад

If u talking the “most beautiful", u gotta consider the Mercedes Benz 300sl as well

@wernerboyz1 2 года назад

Most beautiful Alfa Tipo

@riccardogazzoli8697 2 года назад

Sorry guys but Marcello Gandini is the one and only designer of the Miura: Giorgetto Giugiaro never even took part on the project. Gandini became chief designer at Bertone when Giugiaro went working for Ghia in 1964...

@RoverWaters 2 года назад

true

@stephenfarrell6794 2 года назад

If I remember correctly the Road & Track review back then the author said he was on the NY State Thruway and was cruising along (don't remember what speed).A 911 cam up behind him and starting flashing their lights for him to move over so he proceeded to downshift to 3rd and left the 911 in the dust. Great stuff!

@jameswillard1 2 года назад

I remember that too, it was a wealthy guy that he made friends with and lived in his neighborhood

@john1703 Год назад

So it should. Approx twice the power.

@williamkaiser8067 2 месяца назад

I have that very article about 6 feet away right now. 168 was the top speed, the fastest R&T had driven up to that time on the road. And they italicized the TWO gears they dropped down to leave the 911S in the rear view. Great story!

@1_5RCBiker 2 года назад

This is the kind of Top Gear we need on the TV. Enthusiasts waffling about cars. :)

@caprise-music6722 2 года назад

Word

@West4ea 2 года назад

Wasn’t this on the TV show?

@GIBBO4182 2 года назад

It IS like this…people won’t give it a chance though because they’re still butthurt over Clarkson

@opshredderytp 2 года назад

@@GIBBO4182 Well you've got a point there (the "butthurt over Clarkson" part)

@1_5RCBiker 2 года назад

@@GIBBO4182 Only when Chris has a section. Paddy and Freddie? Give over!

@hsvracer 2 года назад

Having been lucky enough to spend some time in my mates Miura SV, I can say with hand on my heart, everything about it is an occasion. It's perfect, even when it leaks oil on my driveway.

@chriskappert1365 2 года назад

It doesn't leak oil , it marks its territory !

@MishraArtificer 2 года назад

It leaked oil on your driveway, and...you're not even mad. That oil splotch is merely a (VERY QUICKLY) rolling sculpture gracing you with its presence.

@am0eba168 2 года назад

Agreed, It still is one of the most beautiful cars ever produced

@gixerloon 2 года назад

I first became aware of the Miura when I watched the Italian Job as a kid, and just fell in love with the car, the spine tingling, back of the neck hair raising exhaust note, the shape, just so evocative to me back then, the Miura after all these years remains my holy grail car and my all time favourite Lamborghini, and to be honest unless I'm fortunate enough to win big on the lotto, a car I'll never have or probably never even drive, you're a fortunate man Chis Harris to have this privilege.

@dazzaMusic 2 года назад

Can’t believe the man who designed this was 22, when I was 22 the cars I was drawing still had guns on them!

@kirovmedia6972 2 года назад

Quote of Richard hammond

@JUSTiNSWORLD 2 года назад

TAKING DELIVERY OF A BRAND NEW LAMBORGHINI URUS w/ NO KEYS‼️😳 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h2mrYq5yijw.html

@xxxxxtrxxx13 2 года назад

I read that in his voice

@diogopsilva 2 года назад

Marcello Gandini takes full credit for the design of this beauty. I don't know where topgear got the idea that Giugiaro was involved in this project.

@Blakeoffire 2 года назад

Agreed ! That line had me going 'pardon me.. ? ?' ... Giugiaro most certainly did not design the Miura... I suggest anyone search for Davide Cironi's excellent interview with Gandini from 2018 - hit the Eng Subs if need be and enjoy a rare interview with this design legend.

@diogopsilva 2 года назад

@@Blakeoffire I saw that one! What a legend that man is, and surprisingly humble and low key for the guy who created some os the most iconic designs of automotive history. Miura, Countach, Stratos, Carabo, Marzal, Montreal, this man's portfolio is just outstanding, one of the best car designers this world has ever seen!

@garyseaton4619 11 месяцев назад

Yes. Absolutely one of the most beautiful, outstanding cars in history... Thank you, Enzo...

@patrickomeagher9868 2 года назад

One of my all time favorite cars. Countless times I've imagined myself in the opening scene of the original Italian Job (minus the abrupt stop). I love the origin story too. Another car (along with the Ford GT-40) that owes it's existence to Enzo Ferrari making someone reeeally angry. Chris Harris is a great presenter as well. He's great at capturing that passion and enthusiasm cars like this inspire in those of us with a life-long love for cars.

@Orcawhale1 2 года назад

It was the other way around, it was Ford who tried to screw over Enzo Ferrari, which made him back out of the deal. The GT40 story is actully a story about how a corporation tried to screw over a business owner and succeeding in doing so.

@BubbaSmurft 2 года назад

"On days like this..."

@patrickomeagher9868 2 года назад

@@Orcawhale1 I didn't know that. Can't say I'm surprised. The 'big three' are infamous for that kind of dirty pool. I actually love Ferraris, and Enzo definitely earned some bragging rights. Ferraris and Lamborghinis are the kind of cars that make your whole day just seeing one on the street.

@-A.n.d.r.e.w- 2 года назад

haha, the version told in Ford vs Ferrari certainly slanted it in Ford's favor. History is told by the winners and all that. Either way, awesome story for both the GT40 and the Miura! Though it says an awful lot about about the level of Ferrari that so many great stories revolve around people trying to beat them. Kinda like the 911 GT3 today - always the benchmark that everyone wants to be.

@TheSlowoldman 2 года назад

A Miura and a Lusso in the same video...... TWO of the most beautiful cars ever made....... I like the tractor too.

@PoloCode68 2 года назад

What a beautiful car

@manosparavida3551 2 года назад

The Italian Job intro' featuring this car and the hauntingly melodic 'On day's like these' by Matt Monro is perhaps the finest intro to any film yet.

@74jeepcj6 2 года назад

I concur 👍

@Tegridynews 2 года назад

I could watch him talk about that car for another 15-20 minutes

@AaronSmith-kr5yf 2 года назад

Few years ago the local art museum had a "Concourse d'Elegance" with about 20 late 50's to early 70's Italian exotic and sports cars. About half of them were one offs or concept cars. They even had a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO. Every car in that museum was a work of art in its own way, but the one that really stuck out to me as the most radical was the 1968 Miura, bright orange. Mainly because it was an actual production car and IMO it looked better proportioned, more beautiful than all the concept cars they had on display. And it actually performed, forced Ferrari's hand to go mid engine on all their future top spec road cars.

@gregbischoff2668 2 года назад

I saw a Miura a few years ago at an auto show. What's breathtaking is how low to the ground it is. The roof is 41.3 inches off the ground. By comparison a 1992 Mazda Miata is 48 inches. The Miata would look like an SUV next to a Miura.

@mogelkaiser1876 2 года назад

the 250 gt berlinetta lusso is a work of art... just look at this beauty!

@hairymoppins9659 2 года назад

Its such an icon, its why The Italian Job is one of the greatest openings in movie culture

@katman042 2 года назад

Chris Harris is so entertaining. He’s the best!

@brandonfromlondonuk3484 2 года назад

hes is not a Clarkson but a close 2nd

@dimitrisvarvakis7724 2 года назад

I could literally watch Chris and the Miura for hours. More Chris, and more videos like this, please.

@isaks3243 2 года назад

I am very much not a Lamborghini kinda guy. But the miura is special. It is drop dead gorgeous from every angle and it lives firmly as the best looking mid engine car ever to bless the roads

@brandonfromlondonuk3484 2 года назад

i am curious what do you prefer over a Lambo ?

@isaks3243 2 года назад

@@brandonfromlondonuk3484 my 1973 Volvo 1800ES, and the Mercedes 300sl gullwing. The other angular doorstop looking lambos tho are really not my kind of car tho. Don't really like their styling since I prefer flowing lines.

@TheSilentTiger89 2 года назад

Absolutely the greatest lambo of all time.

@GTE_Channel 2 года назад

I cant get over how the wheels sit in the arches... what a design...

@markojokanovic349 Год назад

It looks crazy good while we are bringing 2022 to an end.. Imagine it in 1966???

@ronpinto9588 2 года назад

In the 70s I had the chance to just sit inside one Miura. It was amazing

@TheOnyxian 2 года назад

Top Gear, can you give Chris a proper length videos for RU-vid please. 5mins just isn't long enough, especially for something as incredible as a Miura.

@oliverturner5897 2 года назад

A return to Top Gear level story telling, but still new and unique - keep it up Chris and Co.!

@mikewambugu6157 2 года назад

Most beautiful car, amazing origin story told by Chris harris - absolute class Top Gear

@sajid6027 2 года назад

Stanzani & Dallara said numerous times the car was styled by Marcello Gandini.

@GIBBO4182 2 года назад

Gotta love the origin story of Lamborghini! Just to give Ferrari the middle finger!

@MauroNigro 2 года назад

was gandini.in italy no one doubt of it. well done chris.you're the first english man to pronunce miura in the riht way.

@Dutch-K9-Unit Год назад

The Sophia Loren of cars what a beauty😍😍😍

@bicyclist2 2 года назад

I had a Testors model of the Miura SV Jota. I love the look of it. Richard Hammond also did a review of the Lamborghini Miura on Top Gear. Thank you.

@AxlMorris1999 2 года назад

It's pretty well established that Marcello Gandini designed the Miura. Bertone was too busy, so he handed the project to his young apprentice, Gandini.

@tony66au 2 года назад

Its still a crazy good car today even though its no longer up there Numbers wise the experience of driving a Miura spiritedly cant be duplicated. Shame about the current prices though.

@SteveWattse Год назад

I had a 6' poster of a Miura on my bedroom wall back in the 60's - sadly that's as close as I have come to owning one of these beauties!

@DafyddPhillips 2 года назад

I’ll be humming ‘days like these’ by Matt monro after watching that. Beautiful car 🏁

@revelare_xvii6269 2 года назад

If it weren’t for the Miura, every modern/classic supercar we know today would’ve never existed.

@WhuDhat 2 года назад

haha that quip at the end about the mirrors was a great ending point

@Nico_lente 2 года назад

You could have made a phone call to Iain Tyrrell to know who designed the Miura, you know :)

@GreyAlive 2 года назад

I dare to say: the most beautiful car ever? Probably, but definitely in the top 3.

@MishraArtificer 2 года назад

@Afghanistan Bananastand I'm still calling the Aston-Martin Vanquish to be the most beautiful.

@joseesquivel2414 2 года назад

Ferrari 250 GTO, Aston Martin One 77, Ford GT 40, De Tomaso Pantera... Rivals.

@StormdriverOne 2 года назад

Love all of this but that shot of Enzo after calling Ferruccio "a farmer"... LMAO!!! That's brilliance right there.

@lauriedooker1031 2 года назад

Harris is great at sharing his Enthusiasm and love for cars .

@johnwaga3702 2 года назад

My favourite car of all time - incredibly beautiful!

@hamza89868 2 года назад

Now that's true car journalism

@danielegiuliani2700 6 месяцев назад

The designer, Mercello Gandini passed away 2 days ago. Rest in peace, you genius visionary

@1258-Eckhart Год назад

At the very same time as the Ferrari/Lamborghini spat, Ferrari was negotiating a takeover by Ford. This fell through in May 1963, and Ford began in earnest to develop a Le Mans car in house (well, in the newly-established British in-house subsidiary): the GT40. As a racecar, its development was no secret and prototypes were easily accessible. So the originality of the Miura lies not in its design, but in the idea that the GT40's design could be adapted for a road car. The only departure was the transverse engine layout.

@Bmontepeque11 2 года назад

Chris Harris nailing it again!

@atharvpatil5786 2 года назад

There's a lot of coincidences going on with me since a week. I saw Top Gear Season 3 Episode 4 or 5 (4 is more likely), in which Richard Hammond drove Miura and its 2nd version or something by Jay Kay. Believe that!🤩

@Markycarandbikestuff 2 года назад

That was a great clip, the Miura Hamster drives is Twiggys old car (a 69 P400S), Jay Kay's old car (i think he sold it ?), was a 71 SV like this 72 in this vid, the SV is the better version IMO.

@74jeepcj6 2 года назад

This car contributed to one of the best opening scenes of a movie ever in the original “The Italian Job”

@powersliding 2 года назад

one of the best post clarkson piece

@stuartsmith5308 2 года назад

I'd like P400 SV tech in an P400S body. I think the SV doesn't look as nice, but it does have superior updates.

@DailyDrivenBikes_1 2 года назад

The first actual supercar was the bugatti Aerogith.

@sylvainbougie7269 2 года назад

The 1930 had incredible cars, Talbot-Lago, Hispano-Suiza, Duisenberg, etc

@lusciouskollektibles8663 Год назад

The formula of a supercar. The Miura is a groundbreaking car that showed the world how supercars are made. The first ever supercar.

@lundsweden 2 года назад

Fun fact: You don't need mirrors when you are travelling 170mph. Everything is behind you, or soon to be behind you!

@julian4548 2 года назад

I may never have one :( but I have scored both of Simon Kidstons definitive books on the Muira. They are some consolation. I understood that the design credit is well settled.

@RoverWaters 2 года назад

it is

@dzefrejrulez Год назад

You lucky guy! I was hecitating to long before spendig 250€ for The Miura book . When i decided, it was too late and i really regret it :(

@NerdLifeChoice 2 года назад

I think it's about time Top Gear started making and uploading their videos in 4K

@lameeon1919 2 года назад

Was waiting for this :)

@codyddd3634 2 года назад

most beautiful car ever made imo

@wesleycardinal8869 2 года назад

This clip just needed Matt Monro singing On Days Like These, and maybe some mafia thugs with machine guns ...

@rogbrown1458 2 года назад

Yeah. A real Italian job for sure. Beautiful. Both car and song. Rog. P s records.

@nobody-wk6ej 2 года назад

That fluo is absolutely stunning.

@AtheistOrphan 2 года назад

‘Fluo’? What’s that?

@nobody-wk6ej 2 года назад

@@AtheistOrphan Basically neon anything.

@AtheistOrphan 2 года назад

@@nobody-wk6ej - Oh right, thanks.

@enricof8022 Год назад

Actually part of this is just inaccurate: Ferruccio opened his Ferrari, managed to fix the problem using an adapted version of his tractors' clutch and then went to Enzo Ferrari, offering him the solution to those breakdowns. At that point Enzo answered Ferruccio "what do you want? It's your fault if you're unable to drive my cars, go back to your tractors!"

@Dau.la-muiee. 2 года назад

kinda funny this was posted at the same time ferrari won the bahrain gp.

@dannyh5937 2 года назад

People in the 60's must have thought the future arrived when this Miura came out.

@johnandrews3568 2 года назад

Okay you had me at Muira, but you made me pass out with that 250 Lusso.

@boyfrmnewyork 2 года назад

From a time when we knew how to design beautiful automobiles...

@shambolic1221 2 года назад

Where did he get that jumper from? I need one

@LucidFlameX 2 года назад

A truly beautiful machine even in the present day.

@TheMponde 2 года назад

A modern homage to the Mura would be great!

@Emilioh888 2 года назад

already done by lambo. the miura concept 16 yrs ago!

@lololo-jh6yw 2 года назад

It's so BEAUTIFUL

@TheGreener121 2 года назад

The most beautiful fo sho but fitting the V12 transverse was not the best idea.

@howardmckenna 2 года назад

I think I saw this very car around 15 years ago on the King's Rd Chelsea. It looked otherworldly!!

@Markycarandbikestuff 2 года назад

Lucky guy, it's my dream to see one of these cars in the metal, only seen pics and watched vids like this.

@howardmckenna 2 года назад

@@Markycarandbikestuff... The lucky guy is the one that owned/was driving it.

@direstraits1367 2 года назад

My dream car right there! So glad I at least have the kyosho model 😆.

@michaelarchangel1163 2 года назад

The first image I ever saw of a Miura was one of a card collection inside a box of Milkana Cheese spread segments. Next time, it was of Concorde. Christ, I'm bloody old. We were so skint, we aspired to Dairylea.

@fdschuler7863 11 месяцев назад

Great video

@KingCast65 Год назад

Just ask Miles Davis. Also the Urraco. And the Espada is.... well... different. Still dig it.

@pezzonovante888 2 года назад

Really? As if no one's ever heard the Ferrari/Lamborghini feud story by now. It's been done sooooooooooo many times.

@Danny-zw1yn 2 года назад

I see this exact car on m25 today 👌

@mesropmadzharyan6727 2 года назад

They are very smart by putting Chris’s name so we can click .

@EvendimataE 2 года назад

if im a car manufacturer, i would make something very similar to that...that car is so beautiful

@krys42091 2 года назад

More of these please, I want to see Chris Harris in a McLaren F1.

@GIBBO4182 2 года назад

The last couple of series of Top Gear have been the best since the Jezza and the boys left. Unfortunately the people I know haven’t even given it a chance. Try it…you might like it!!

@aussie2uGA 2 года назад

Let's not get crazy now, it's like telling a petrol head to try out the performance of a Tesla...

@GIBBO4182 2 года назад

@@aussie2uGA the last presenters had been doing it forever so they had tons of chemistry. It’s never gonna be as good…but it’s definitely worth a watch

@brandonfromlondonuk3484 2 года назад

i have watched every single top gear until paddy and that other idiot joined and i swore to myself i would not watch even 1 second of those two fools i kept my promise ( rip top gear )

@smartin2174 2 года назад

But wasn't it a secret after-work project by some engineers because Lamborghini didn't agree on the concept?

@RastaRider 2 года назад

The contemporary Ferrari being front engine had the advantage in top speed because the midship Miura would experience excessive front lift making it unsafe at its limit

@joe5boost 2 года назад

such a beautiful car

@Juan-wy1jt 2 года назад

We miss the three musketeers

@7lvnblue464 2 года назад

Crazy they always tend to use this green one, any one else notice that

@alexhidell663 Год назад

2 facts Lamborghini began making cars because Ferruccio wasn't allowed to make helicopters by the Italian government. Ferruccio only made the Miura a production car because his friends all wanted one. He himself didn't think much of it.