[Closed] Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4

I have to ask. Does it have pushrods 🙂 :):)

I have to ask. Does it have pushrods 🙂 :):)

Beat me to it

Does it have a speed limiter?

And all 112 have already been sold. Not as if I could have afforded one anyway.

And I have to ask.. what’s it for?

Definitely, if there's an estate version.

Bloody hybrids...I'm oot...

disappointed in the name TBH - Its basically an aventador with a tiny electric motor.

Bet this one won’t boss Top Trumps like it’s predecessor. Didn’t that famously have a clutch pedal fit only for an Olympic track cyclist?

It looks like the beautiful love child of a Countach and a Diablo.

Just a cash grab by Lambo TBH, the original Countach was a groundbreaker. This is a just a 10 year old chassis with some coachwork done and a Sian hybrid system thrown in there, that said it does look decent.

Does it have pushrods

Yes, the suspension dampers and springs are mounted horizontally and driven by pushrods.

2.1 metres wide, pretty much undrivable in the real World.
Looks great on a poster in your bedroom if you're 12.

Yes, the suspension dampers and springs are mounted horizontally and driven by pushrods.

Sweet is that a 2 valve or a 4valve design ?
Although it is admirable they recycle outdated technology into new uses.

2.1 metres wide, pretty much undrivable in the real World.

You ain't kidding. Met a current gen lambo while we were following a road race in neutral service last Saturday. He had forgot he was in a lambo and caught a low rock on the inside of a corner trying to squeeze past the group....

Well I guess one of the limitations of the original Countach was that they were very small and cramped inside, so taller people struggled. It seems that millionaires are, on average, taller than everyone else, so if that is their target market then I guess they had to grow the car to fit your average millionaire in with reasonable levels of comfort.

Not done a bad job on the styling and good to see they've retained the v12. I reckon it will be a 'light hybrid' with a view towards performance enhancement rather than economy and environmental freindliness. But no pop up headlights and they've gone a bit overboard with the side NACA duct.

It makes the original one look a long way away, or perhaps much smaller?

The original was not a small car either. In terms of width at least. Lambo's just look stupid on British roads...way way too wide for anything but wide motorways or A-roads. No chance of 'making progress' on a British B road. Utterly pointless. But I guess most will spend almost all their lives tucked away in a garage.

I reckon it will be a ‘light hybrid’ with a view towards performance enhancement rather than economy and environmental freindliness

It is, a 34bhp equivalent electric motor used to bridge a drop in power during/between gear changes, nothing else.

Isn't that just a bodge then to make up for not having a pure electric drive train, or something like a Toyota hybrid?

Perhaps they're after the retro market.

And I have to ask.. what’s it for?

For very rich people to become even richer by owning a car they can sell for even more than they paid for it.

Didn’t that famously have a clutch pedal fit only for an Olympic track cyclist?

OK, I'm actually qualified to answer this, as I've driven one (an LP500) around a perimeter track of a disused airfield in Oxfordshire. 1. The clutch wasn't so much heavy (although it's robust, I wouldn't want to have used it for town driving) as "snappy" it had a surprisingly lengthy travel, and engaged with a heafty mechanical "thunk" that made the whole car sort of shimmy. Forget any delicate balancing of throttle and clutch here, it was too basic for that  2. It stank of fuel, terrible old leaky Webbers...nice noise though. 3 steering was woeful, heavy and vague, 4. power delivery on the engine was nothing...nothing....nothing...everything.   4. hot, stuffy badly laid out interior, terrible seats that didn't adjust well, everything out of reach, no visibility out the back, open the air-vents, more stink of fuel (to the point after about 15 mins I felt more than a little sick)

The only thing that car had going for it was it's looks. Can't wait for these sort of things to go the same way as the dinosaurs that make them run.

EDIT: Interesting side fact, the guy that owned it, made his living importing and restoring/improving old US V8s, for the European kit car market. He had a supplier that stripped the engines from air raid sirens....Yes, that's right, the Americans used V8 petrol engines to power sirens in big cities....

The original was not a small car either. In terms of width at least. Lambo’s just look stupid on British roads…way way too wide for anything but wide motorways or A-roads. No chance of ‘making progress’ on a British B road. Utterly pointless. But I guess most will spend almost all their lives tucked away in a garage.

Supercars always look wider because they're so low, the Original Countach is shorter, narrower and obviously much lower than the current Octavia. It would have been massive at the time though.

The current Huracan is about as wide as most of JLRs models, and people seem to manage to throw them down twisty B roads with gay abandon.

The V12 Lambos since the Miura have always been posers cars, they're for being seen in.

IMHO most, if not all supercars are for posing, few are brave enough to take their expensive toys on a track, and you'd have to be a complete arsehole to floor a car like that on the road, any road, I guess you could still drive like a Div in the 90s when a Ferrari 355 had half the power of the current one and there were probably half as many cars around, but these days, if it was about driving, you'd be better of with something way smaller, way lighter with less grip and a track day.

I was going to get one, but couldn't find anywhere to fit my bike rack, so sticking with what i have.

The 80's icon always had a great big ****-off spoiler on the back. Not available on the current model, which is why I didn't bother pre-ordering either.

IMHO most, if not all supercars are for posing, few are brave enough to take their expensive toys on a track, and you’d have to be a complete arsehole to floor a car like that on the road, any road, I guess you could still drive like a Div in the 90s when a Ferrari 355 had half the power of the current one and there were probably half as many cars around, but these days, if it was about driving, you’d be better of with something way smaller, way lighter with less grip and a track day.

Agreed. If it was driving fun on everyday roads in everyday conditions you were after that new yaris thing would probably best that.

2.1 metres wide, pretty much undrivable in the real World.

Is that why HGVs are having such a hard time just now? Who narrowed the roads? Bastards!

Oh, by the way, that's still within the width range of a T6 Transporter (1904–2283 mm).