Lamborghini Miura Concept

Lamborghini Miura Concept front angle view

Lamborghini Miura Concept front top view

Lamborghini Miura Concept rear angle view

Lamborghini Miura Concept side view

The House of the Raging Bull brings back a legendary name from the past of the company with the Lamborghini Miura Concept.

Lamborghini Miura Concept will be the first Lamborghini vehicle from the pen of the talented Walter de Silva, Head of Lamborghini Design are called. “the other design responsibilities Silva as head of the Audi Design Group. The talented designer idea for the new concept was simple: a retro-inspired look heralding a symbol of the most famous cars in the world, the legendary Miura.

Lamborghini anxiously begins the New Year-anticipated unveiling of the 2006 Lamborghini Miura Concept, a modern interpretation of the Lamborghini Miura. Currently celebrating its 40th Birthday, was originally designed by Marcello Gandini of the Miura and was first publicly presented at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show by Ferruccio Lamborghini and Nuccio Bertone.

To this day the Miura remains one of the most beautiful cars of all time.

The new concept model, which is now a concept with pure no fixed date for the beginning of the production set, the creation of Silva is inspired “, the world-famous Italian designer. He has redesigned every aspect of the car while remaining absolutely true to the original form.

The new car retains the extraordinary purity of line characteristic of the original Miura: the designer has to increase the intervention by refining the contours and eliminating any superfluous detail, the clean, simple lines and perfectly balanced proportions of the original has been defined in such a passionate lover.

The redesign of the lower part of the body takes the car out of the structural strength and aerodynamics to new heights, without the delicate aesthetic equilibrium.

Even the hint of contemporary styling applied to the interior, lighting, and the wheels have been carefully homogeneous with a design that is both timeless and reach measured immediately recognizable. And so a true design icon is reborn.

“The past year two,” says Walter de ‘Silva, “I have often dreamed of redesigning the Miura. Well, have succeeded thanks to my new position at the head of Lamborghini design, and the enthusiastic support of the Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann, I is in reality a dream. ”

The Lamborghini Miura Concept will be seen on the Lamborghini stand at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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