Are you beautiful? Or so wealthy that your hideously ugly mug doesn’t really matter anymore? If so, the Miura is what you want, if/when it goes from concept to production form. Should that happen, expect all-wheel-drive setup, a base price of around $800,000, and a powertrain featuring a 6.5-liter, 700-horsepower V12 engine with a sequential seven-speed automatic transmission. That matters a bunch, if you like beautiful power. But all in all, what the Lamborghini Miura really stands for is a celebration of the things beautiful people covet, and yet another example of the spreading retro design trend in today’s car world. When exotics such as Lamborghini are going back to past giants in order to build a retro-ish muscle recreation of a much-loved car, it’s time to come up with some new ideas. There are beautiful children, right now, wondering what kind of Lamborghini they will aspire to own when they join the club. If it’s the Miura, will it be the 1966 model – or the 2008 version of the 1966 model?
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