Lamborghini has resurrected a storied nameplate from many years in the past for one final experience earlier than the Italian supercar firm transitions to an all-electric future.
The 2022 Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 pays homage to its well-known predecessors constructed between 1974 and 1990, with their sharply angled wedge form, sculpted rear and strange doorways. Initially designed by Bertone, posters of the previous-generation rear-engined, scissor-doored, exotic-looking Countach have been as ubiquitous on bed room partitions within the late twentieth century as have been posters that includes equally glamorous-and-unobtainable Hollywood starlets.
The fashionable model, which can be displayed at The Quail as a part of Monterey Automobile Week, is outfitted with a naturally aspirated rear-mounted 6.5-liter V-12 engine that mixed with the model’s 34-hp hybrid supercapacitor know-how produces a complete of about 825 hp, Automobili Lamborghini says.
Geared up with commonplace all-wheel drive, the Countach LPI 800-4 is able to accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.8 seconds, reaching 200 km/h in about 8.6 seconds, and it carries a prime pace of over 355 km/h, the automaker mentioned.
“The Countach LPI 800-4 is a visionary automobile of the second, simply as its forerunner was,” Automobili Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann mentioned in a written assertion. “One of the crucial necessary automotive icons, the Countach not solely embodies the design and engineering tenet of Lamborghini however represents our philosophy of reinventing boundaries, attaining the sudden and extraordinary and, most significantly, being the ‘stuff of desires.’ ”
With a physique constructed solely of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, the Countach LPI 800-4 rides on 20-inch entrance wheels and 21-inch rear wheels and options four-wheel steering that offers it a curb-to-curb turning radius of just below 38 toes — or about 11 metres.
“The engineering crew that developed the unique Countach superior Lamborghini’s pioneering technical method, delivering sudden improvements and the perfect efficiency out there in a manufacturing automobile,” mentioned Lamborghini Chief Technical Officer Maurizio Reggiani. “That spirit inherently drives Lamborghini R&D, ensuing within the pioneering hybrid know-how within the LPI 800-4, and the emotive driving expertise and top-line efficiency anticipated from a flagship V12 Lamborghini.”
Contained in the cabin, the Countach LPI 800-4 options an 8.4-inch contact display show that features a particular “Stile” button, which, when pressed, performs a video explaining the automobile’s “design philosophy,” the automaker mentioned.
It will likely be priced at US$2.64 million, excluding taxes. Lamborghini mentioned the primary deliveries of the hand-built fashionable Countach would start within the first quarter of 2022.