COUNTACH
Total Revs
65
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Global Rank
#06
Model Rank
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About the Countach
Every kid born between 1975 and 1995 had this car on their wall. The Countach didn't sell on lap times or luxury appointments. It sold on the fact that nothing else on earth looked like it. Marcello Gandini drew the LP400 as a follow-up to the Miura, and where the Miura was curved and sensual, the Countach was a geometry lesson with a V12. Flat planes, sharp angles, scissor doors that opened like a threat. The original periscopio prototype was so radical that the production car — which gained NACA ducts, fender flares, and eventually a rear wing the size of a park bench — still looked restrained by comparison. Over sixteen years and five major variants, the Countach got wider, heavier, and more theatrical. The LP400 was a scalpel at 1,065 kg. The 25th Anniversary was a battering ram at 1,490 kg. Both were unmistakably Countach. The silhouette never changed because it never needed to.