Lamborghini Miura

Among the 96 Lamborghini entries in the MotorJury library, the Lamborghini Miura holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1966. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Lamborghini Miura properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Spider, the Dodge Dodge Charger, the Toyota Toyota Corolla — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lamborghini Miura reads like this: the record lists its engine as 3929 cc L406 V12; kerb weight is recorded at 1292 kg; top speed is given as 276 km/h; drive goes through 5-speed manual; the layout is Transverse rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 764 units, which makes it a limited-production machine by any standard.

Its place in the Lamborghini story

Within Lamborghini's own catalogue the Lamborghini Miura sits alongside the Lamborghini Calà (1995), the Lamborghini Marco Polo, the Lambo 291, the Lamborghini 350 GT. The record names the successor = Lamborghini Countach as its predecessor and the Lamborghini Countach as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Marcello Gandini at Bertone. Assembly is recorded at Italy: Sant'Agata Bolognese.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Lamborghini Miura was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.