Lamborghini – the name itself will make you think of fast, exotic supercars, but it wasn’t always this way. A few decades ago, it would remind you of tractors.
Yes, Lamborghini was once a tractor manufacturer until Ferrucio Lamborghini designed the Miura, which changed the way people perceived the Italian manufacturer forever. It was fast, and looked nothing like any car did before. It was so pretty, from every angle, that it found its way to every kid’s bedroom wall and went on to create generations that would make it one of the most desirable car of all time. Today it would cost you as much as $3 million to own one. Even the replicas are over a million dollars in price.
The iconic car, which paved way for the current bedroom posters of the likes of Aventador, has completed 50 years and the Italian automaker decided to celebrate it with the most epic way a Lamborghini lover could think of – by making a Lamborghini Aventador homage edition to the Miura, or so we thought.
When they did unveil the actual homage edition, then we were left disappointed. Miura was much more than just a car, not just for the auto maker, but for everyone else too. It defined the company, the creator and went on to become an inspiring story as to how some car enthusiasts came up with such a beauty.
When unveiled it was the fastest production car, and being a mid-engined sports car, was also much ahead of its time.
The Aventador homage edition costs over $400,000 and will be a limited edition offering., only 50 will ever be made. Sounds like a ‘comparatively’ affordable way of owning the Miura’s DNA, but sadly, you only get a regular Aventador with a fancy paint job.
The Aventador also has 12 cylinders under bonnet, just like the Miura, but it’s the stock Aventador engine, no power boost there. Built by the company's Ad Personam studio, its equivalent to McLaren's MSO or Aston Martin's division Q bespoke customization arm, also gets Miura badging.
Don’t get us wrong, the Avemntador is a great car and one of the whackiest, mind-blowing machine around, capable of challenging the supercars of today, even after years of being launched into the market. What we are saying is that the car succeeded by the like of the Lamborghini Countach, the car that single-handedly challenged the domination of Ferrari deserved much more than a paint job.
Why do we have such expectations? Because the company is capable of pulling such a thing off. I mean look at the Lamborghini Centenario, built to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of the company’s founder, blew every single Lamborghini lover’s mind around the world and maybe raised the bar so high, that even the company itself couldn’t keep up to it.
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