Bertone: 100 years of car design (photos)

by Andrew Nusca  |  October 18, 2012  |  Image 17 of 27

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This is how most people see Lamborghinis, from behind. The 1966 Miura was certainly no slouch in this regard, making "all the other sports cars look 10 years older," a journalist wrote when it first appeared at the Geneva Motor Show of that year. The model has a steel box frame chassis with a transversally-mounted 12-cylinder engine making 350 horsepower at 7,000 rpm that pushed the car to 290 kmh. Bertone says this model became a status symbol for its sensual look, and as such, the vehicle you're looking at in the photo is Nuccio Bertone's personal one.

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