It’s been the worst-kept supercar secret of 2021, but Lamborghini has unveiled its Countach reboot, to be launched in the 50th-anniversary year of the iconic supercar. Check out the video above.
It’s the first time the company has brought a name back from the past and it’ll be a very limited-run car, with 112 to be built (an homage to the original Countach’s “LP112” designation).
It’s arguably more a reskin than a reboot, though. Underneath the Countach LPI 800-4’s retro-inspired styling is the 6.5-litre V12 engine and 48-volt supercapacitor hybrid technology from the Sian FKP 37. In Countach specification it makes a combined 602kW and propels the car to 100km/h in 2.8 seconds. Top speed is 355km/h.
Lamborghini says the “clean lines… and the iconic scissor doors, now reinterpreted even sharper edges,” directly reference the original Countach. The car will be available in a range of contemporary colours, but there are also two heritage hues on offer: Giallo Countach and Impact White.
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The Countach made its debut as a concept car at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1971. Designed by Marcello Gandini and engineered by Paolo Stanzini, it was taken to production status for 1974 with the help of Lamborghini’s chief test driver, New Zealander Bob Wallace.
It stayed in production until 1990, when it was replaced by the Diablo.