the latest model Gandini rejected it ..." too far from my way of drawing". the Countach at the time had to appear as an absolute novelty, here a car was only redesigned by exploiting the wake of the past success
The dream of Marcello Gandini is back. The best design of the Coutach. If Lamborghini make a limited edition, and resolve the problems of overheating of the original prototype, modernize it without changes of the internal and external designs, a succes in perspective.
Such a pure design. This original LP500 is it for me too! So glad they recreated it. Nothing that was added afterwards improved it from an aesthetic point of view and I think all the subtlety got lost with arches, wings and DOT tail lights. This version actually shows the subtle curves on the shoulder line and the repeated trapezoid theme in the top view so clearly. Even the side intake slats where the rear quarter windows were later added look so much cleaner than the unfortunately awkward airboxes. This still looks so good 50 years later!
To be honest with you, I do like the later ones with all the arches and wings. They look menacing and brutal. This here though....it's just drop dead gordeous.
What an astonishing design! It’s 50 years old and it STILL looks/sounds/probably drives like a fantasy. I wonder if people in 1971 looked at the cars of 1921 with such veneration?
It's because you can't reverse the car with the door shut. The rear visibility is so poor. The guys at the Lambo factory used to sit on the door sill whenever they had to manoeuvre a Countach, so they could see.
One thing i do love and that is the aspect RATIO on thise tires!!!! Real performance demands real rubber between you and especially city streets.dont feed me about handling Formula one cars have 16 to 17 inch rims with atleast 60 aspect RATIO on there tires
It's just the pinnacle of supercar design. Pity it couldn't have reached production in this form. Of course there were issues with overheating etc. The lp400 looks great too but not quite as clean and dramatic as the prototype- the skinny rears on the lp400 look awkward.
I was thinking this original shape that had its overheating issues would be a good candidate for an electric motor. I bet it would go like the clappers too. Have you seen the purple LP400 on a Harry's garage video ? not a colour I would choose but it does look amazing with the light interior.
I love the retro-futuristic "Countach" lettering in the rear, And those rear lights. OMG!!! It sounds like no other Countach I've heard before. Amazing.
Magnificent! Best ever dream car. It is not fair on other designs to be that good. Not fair that I can't order one. The world lost a masterpiece in 1974 but has refound it.
Stunning recreation. That's what the Countach was supposed to look like before the horrid federalization. Too bad they couldn't fit this one with a forward gear or two.
Federalization wasn't to blame for the change of the Countach look - it merely changed the bumpers on the cars that came to the US. The main changes were down to cooling, they needed big scoops and the NACA duct to send more air through the radiators, plus some more vents at the back to let the heat out. Even with these changes, they LP400 is a far purer design than the later iterations, which were down to Walter Wolf - a customer who commissioned Dallara (a Lambo engineer who had set up his own company) to put a higher power engine in (actually it was the same as the original LP500 recreated here) and the wider wheels - which necessitated the arches, plus the big spoiler. I like the look of both, but they are very different!
This video is more than I could’ve asked for; what a masterpiece this reconstruction is!! Needless to say, *the* most attractive Countach in the world. The team clinging to it/running beside it reminds me of neurotic “helicopter parents” following their kids - added an element of humor for me to be honest.
It will have to be as the original suffered overheating from lack of ventilation cooling ducts etc. It was hacked and modified oil cooler, scoops and vents added by Bob Wallace and team. Before finally being used in MIRA crash testing in UK to get Type approval as an Lp400 even thought it did not have a tube chassis. sneaky :)
No rear view mirrors. No wonder he left the doors up. Was the original built without any? And why the heck did I just spend 6 minutes of my life watching - what is admittedly a rare and beautiful beast - being driven around aimlessly at 5 mph, with a bunch of people giving what would seem needless direction (except, again, in reverse)?
I'm pretty sure if that guy is trusted enough to drive it then he probably doesn't need 20 morons guiding him. Good grief. It's a small car, he had tons of space. Lighten up guys.
I have recently started restoring and upgrading a few Matchbox cars, I'm almost finished on the Countach it took quite a bit of filing and sanding to improve the shape. Yellow paint is on the ready !
WOW!!! The original fantasy dream machine! Just gorgeous!!! I will forever remember the Countach as the quintessential 80’s poster car I had on the wall as a kid!!! Still relevant today!!!
It was released in Italy in 1973 and in USA in 1974. Here in North America it was an on-again/off-again venture due to Lamborghini's financial woes during the decade.
God that is the amazing, truly the greatest automotive icon...but a bit of smoke out the LHS exhuast..hopefully just unburnt fuel and nothing more serious...
Running a bit rich when he blips the throttle. Bet none of the people there know how to change the pump jets on a Dellorto. As regards, the blurb above, I thought I had read that the production cars had a slightly different shape- nose angle increased, to reduce lift at the front- or something. Someone educate me, please.
Che emozione per me ammirare questa vettura, la mia preferita, in movimento dopo averla vista solo in fotografia per cinquant' anni e ricostruita in modo assolutamente fedele all'originale . L' unica cosa che non mi convince sono i risvolti dei sottoporta poiché dalle foto originali non sono presenti.
My first reaction to this was “ohmaigot” this is just perfection, way ahead of the finished car. I’d consider this the most beautiful car ever made. Now seeing this it becomes pretty evident that the Mrclg was just a modern take on this design and admittedly pretty smashing too.
The Original Countach, here demonstrating its unique impracticality with a load of hangers on spoiling the scene. And do I wish it were mine…. Obviously I do. It’s sounds so primal when it revs.
How embarrassing Having to kidd glove it around like it could fall apart at any second while those booger pickers with day passes hover around it like it's built for a some freaking palace prince What a joke ...don't care for the yellow either NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL
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50 years old and still looks like it's from the future
I've always much preferred the clean lines of the first protoype over the later renditions. This is amazing, well done!
Even by today's standards it looks futuristic...
For me, this is THE Countach.
This and the LP400. Everything after can't compare.
the latest model Gandini rejected it ..." too far from my way of drawing". the Countach at the time had to appear as an absolute novelty, here a car was only redesigned by exploiting the wake of the past success
Yeah,basically,the back of the Countach...
The dream of Marcello Gandini is back. The best design of the Coutach. If Lamborghini make a limited edition, and resolve the problems of overheating of the original prototype, modernize it without changes of the internal and external designs, a succes in perspective.
@@jojobargeot5471 true words.
Such a pure design. This original LP500 is it for me too! So glad they recreated it. Nothing that was added afterwards improved it from an aesthetic point of view and I think all the subtlety got lost with arches, wings and DOT tail lights. This version actually shows the subtle curves on the shoulder line and the repeated trapezoid theme in the top view so clearly. Even the side intake slats where the rear quarter windows were later added look so much cleaner than the unfortunately awkward airboxes. This still looks so good 50 years later!
Thank you for this comment. 💕
To be honest with you, I do like the later ones with all the arches and wings. They look menacing and brutal. This here though....it's just drop dead gordeous.
The original Countach. ....... the purity of design. No spoilers, no fenders , no air intakes.... just the best of them all !!!!!
Aluminium rims? Look like crap but so pure trying to wrap my mind around 1971
Does it really embody the spirit of a supercar without spoilers and everything? Cos now it just looks like a normal GT car, not a supercar
No it isn't.
@@lez6442
This car taste like it's color mustard.
I hate fukin mustard.
@@lez6442 the whole point of a supercar is to BLOW YOU AWAY, not look dull and muted.
What an astonishing design! It’s 50 years old and it STILL looks/sounds/probably drives like a fantasy. I wonder if people in 1971 looked at the cars of 1921 with such veneration?
Close the bloody doors
Agreed man.
Can't see the reverse
Seeing it wobble with every bump in the road made me wince.
It’s freaking me out!
@@virusdumb isn't that why there's like 3 guys waking with it everywhere it goes?
Simply a masterpiece! Bravo Team Stephan Winkelmann for resurrecting the real and only Countach!
This seems like the past and the future together !
That’s because, design-wise, every other Lambo after the Countach is a variation of it. Not bad, but not new as well.
It sure looks like it!
AMAZING, just amazing, even 50yrs later, this is still amazing!
Gonna F up the door hinge driving around with the darn thing open. Sheesh! Why!?!?!? You can visibly see it waving laterally back and forth.
you are right, you can not go over a bump with the door open and at that speed.
It's because you can't reverse the car with the door shut. The rear visibility is so poor. The guys at the Lambo factory used to sit on the door sill whenever they had to manoeuvre a Countach, so they could see.
@@nigeldepledge3790 I understand fully. But this dude is driving all over going straight...
@@highlonesome7482 - fair dos. But, it has since occurred to me that anyone who owns a Countach must have more money than sense . . .
@@nigeldepledge3790 😁😆👍True that.
THANK YOU!To the genius Marcello Gandini. I always said the first one was the most beautiful of all!!! To me, it looks like a spaceship on wheels.
Yes, he is the one who designed it, plus the 1970 Lancia Stratos Zero.
Are they lost?
amazing... such beautiful curves, looks soo much better without the extra air intakes. I wonder if it overheats.
Maybe the technologies nowadays are better so it wouldn't overheat,
This is not a car that you should let idle and rev a lot. You will absolutely burn up the whole ass end of the car.
And by burn, I mean break out the marshmallows and call the fire department.
Yes. It will definitely overheat if stationary for too long.
Im sure it would, especially without a huge rad fan.
One thing i do love and that is the aspect RATIO on thise tires!!!! Real performance demands real rubber between you and especially city streets.dont feed me about handling Formula one cars have 16 to 17 inch rims with atleast 60 aspect RATIO on there tires
Shame it can't be driven without walkers
It's just the pinnacle of supercar design. Pity it couldn't have reached production in this form. Of course there were issues with overheating etc. The lp400 looks great too but not quite as clean and dramatic as the prototype- the skinny rears on the lp400 look awkward.
I was thinking this original shape that had its overheating issues would be a good candidate for an electric motor. I bet it would go like the clappers too.
Have you seen the purple LP400 on a Harry's garage video ? not a colour I would choose but it does look amazing with the light interior.
God bless them for this. Resurrected from the grave.
I love the retro-futuristic "Countach" lettering in the rear, And those rear lights. OMG!!!
It sounds like no other Countach I've heard before. Amazing.
I also love those wheels... Much prettier than the later 5 pot wheels.
That's the pre-production prototype.
Sounds closer to a Spitfire warplane than to any car out there. Music 😍
Hard to believe this and the late 80s Countaches are the same car.
at 6:15 it reveals its true beauty, like a well mannered librarian, after she takes off her skirt...
That sound!😩🤩
Fire and thunder
Beautiful, please take it to a track and film It
So much cleaner in design than any of the production cars afterwards.My pick
The early Murci was just as clean.
The interior of the revived prototype of the Lamborghini Countach LP500
looks pretty futuristic even after making a very striking debut in 1971.
Magnificent! Best ever dream car. It is not fair on other designs to be that good. Not fair that I can't order one. The world lost a masterpiece in 1974 but has refound it.
Amazing...simply amazing🤩🤩🤩
I'd like to personally apologize to the clutch.
you snowflake
This thing had to look absolutely alien when people saw it back then.
That is the raddest car I've ever seen
Stunning recreation. That's what the Countach was supposed to look like before the horrid federalization. Too bad they couldn't fit this one with a forward gear or two.
Federalization wasn't to blame for the change of the Countach look - it merely changed the bumpers on the cars that came to the US. The main changes were down to cooling, they needed big scoops and the NACA duct to send more air through the radiators, plus some more vents at the back to let the heat out. Even with these changes, they LP400 is a far purer design than the later iterations, which were down to Walter Wolf - a customer who commissioned Dallara (a Lambo engineer who had set up his own company) to put a higher power engine in (actually it was the same as the original LP500 recreated here) and the wider wheels - which necessitated the arches, plus the big spoiler. I like the look of both, but they are very different!
This video is more than I could’ve asked for; what a masterpiece this reconstruction is!! Needless to say, *the* most attractive Countach in the world. The team clinging to it/running beside it reminds me of neurotic “helicopter parents” following their kids - added an element of humor for me to be honest.
I like the simplicity of this but I also like the big triangle wing and all the intakes of the later models.
Somebody know what brand and model is the black car near to Countach?
Why does it always take 3 guys to park a car at shows? It's really not that hard
I'm sure it will look beautiful living in some guy's garage between being trailered to and from shows.
It will have to be as the original suffered overheating from lack of ventilation cooling ducts etc. It was hacked and modified oil cooler, scoops and vents added by Bob Wallace and team. Before finally being used in MIRA crash testing in UK to get Type approval as an Lp400 even thought it did not have a tube chassis. sneaky :)
If it were mine, it would live in my lounge.
@@friendlypiranha774 Agreed I could just look at it forever :)
This is the car that changed everything!
The modern Lambo is overembellished with too many doo dads and wingdings.
Front bonnet panel gaps 👀
And I thought this car was gone crash tested at mira. Check the feature article on classic driver.
The original prototype was destroyed
I agree! the countach is about design. So the closer you get to the original design the more beautiful
Can I just repeat. This is a Countach. Omg, no wings, arches, flairs just pure Gandini. Stunning.
This is the most beautiful car ever built.
Valentino Balboni, should test drive it to ensure Lamborghini would approve. 😎
No rear view mirrors. No wonder he left the doors up. Was the original built without any? And why the heck did I just spend 6 minutes of my life watching - what is admittedly a rare and beautiful beast - being driven around aimlessly at 5 mph, with a bunch of people giving what would seem needless direction (except, again, in reverse)?
The question is, has this baby ever seen a 100+ mph?
I'm pretty sure if that guy is trusted enough to drive it then he probably doesn't need 20 morons guiding him. Good grief. It's a small car, he had tons of space. Lighten up guys.
The original Matchbox Countach in real life
I have recently started restoring and upgrading a few Matchbox cars, I'm almost finished on the Countach it took quite a bit of filing and sanding to improve the shape. Yellow paint is on the ready !
Absolutely stunning.
The idiocy of all this vehicle movement with the door up is maddening!!! Way too much stress on the door hinge mechanicals, for crying out loud!!!
The lp500 prototype was crashed in test,this is tycoon reconstructed ,even use 6 webber carbs
ＬＰ 500 綺麗 だｱいすき かわいい 本当に綺麗🥰 LP 400 も観たいです。
Beautiful thing but the mesh in the engine cover looks like it should be keeping some chickens safe somewhere!
Is this what rich people do all day? Awkwardly jockey million dollar sports cars around mansion estates?
This car is legendary. Wow!
Get your GD hands off the car!! I don't need your help in backing up!! lol
That's an expensive wedge of cheese.
All joking aside, this is way more futuristic than 99% of today's concept cars!
Why do people like the 80s models more. The Original looks way cooler and even more like a space ship
ランボオーナーはどうしてドア開けたまま動かしたいんだろう？
I hope other automakers see this and get inspired to remake some iconic cars
WOW!!! The original fantasy dream machine! Just gorgeous!!! I will forever remember the Countach as the quintessential 80’s poster car I had on the wall as a kid!!! Still relevant today!!!
Mbareee chiurulu stu sputtelluuuu😂😂😂
When he popped his head out at 4:27 who else thought, "Fuck it's Mr Bean"
This looks like the most unorganized car show to ever take place.
The countach didn't release until 1974. Unless this is the prototype that was shown at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, it's a 74.
It was released in Italy in 1973 and in USA in 1974. Here in North America it was an on-again/off-again venture due to Lamborghini's financial woes during the decade.
She looks alive and not happy about the rain. If a car had a tail then this car has one. What lines.
Maybe like, uh, put the door down?
not sure what the owner manual say about driving with doors open..
It's so beautiful, it brought tears to my eyes.
God that is the amazing, truly the greatest automotive icon...but a bit of smoke out the LHS exhuast..hopefully just unburnt fuel and nothing more serious...
Gandini at his best.
Gandini is just second to none. Genius like Michelangelo.
How many italians does it take to move a lamborghini?
Running a bit rich when he blips the throttle. Bet none of the people there know how to change the pump jets on a Dellorto.
As regards, the blurb above, I thought I had read that the production cars had a slightly different shape- nose angle increased, to reduce lift at the front- or something. Someone educate me, please.
Weber, and yes are a little bit rich, now we have fixed :)
What a beautiful car but no side mirrors wtf?
super ils ont fait ce j ai voulu faire !! la on vois ce qu etais la countach la diva des divas!!!! gandinesque quoi!!
Damn that’s hella clean
Stupenda, magnifica, unica!!!
Unica nota stonata è la presenza di quelle orride bmw...!
When you see a lady with snow on the roof running after a car like that you know that car has to be something else!
Damn that sounds so perfect.
For me, the ferrari 312b has the best exhaust note, but ill say this is pretty damn close.
1971年当時ランボルギーニのテストドライバーの故ボブウォレスは一般道を走りジュネーブモーターショーの会場に乗り付けたらしい
For a car they just spent a ton of time making, they sure like touching it a lot for no reason
"Earth shuttle" for starship Enterprise.
❤️ naprostá nádhera!
This is the NEW Countach we wanted.
nice
grandpa of Countach series
Ha la batteria staccata? BROOOOOOOOMMMMMM 🤣
Like the Lamborghini thank you
Che emozione per me ammirare questa vettura, la mia preferita, in movimento dopo averla vista solo in fotografia per cinquant' anni e ricostruita in modo assolutamente fedele all'originale . L' unica cosa che non mi convince sono i risvolti dei sottoporta poiché dalle foto originali non sono presenti.
design look cool for an electric car but why it doesn't have cooling vents
i like it by the way
The sound of the car and is shape, just wow insane!
What a sexy shape! Bring it back
My first reaction to this was “ohmaigot” this is just perfection, way ahead of the finished car. I’d consider this the most beautiful car ever made. Now seeing this it becomes pretty evident that the Mrclg was just a modern take on this design and admittedly pretty smashing too.
これが、最高。スーパーカーの王様
Now THAT is what a Countach should look like... beautiful, clean, uncluttered lines.
The Original Countach, here demonstrating its unique impracticality with a load of hangers on spoiling the scene. And do I wish it were mine…. Obviously I do. It’s sounds so primal when it revs.
What a thing
How embarrassing
Having to kidd glove it around like it could fall apart at any second while those booger pickers with day passes hover around it like it's built for a some freaking palace prince
What a joke ...don't care for the yellow either
NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL