Article: Lamborghini Jota - The Short Bright Life Of The Ultimate Miura

Lamborghini Jota - The Short Bright Life Of The Ultimate Miura

The Lamborghini Miura was the world's first true mass-production, mid-engine super car when it was introduced for 1966. It was a striking blend, offering the styling and mechanical configuration of the era's wildest, all-out endurance-racing machines, all rolled into a package that was reasonably streetable.



But for all the Miura's obvious race-car underpinnings, Lamborghini never fielded a competition version of the car. Of course, it wasn't that the idea of putting its pioneering exotic on the track hadn't occurred to anyone. Plenty of people within the company hoped they'd eventually be called on to prepare a Miura for such use.



Foremost among those competition proponents was Lamborghini's chief development driver Bob Wallace. From the beginning, he'd been ...
 

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Lamborghini Jota - The Short Bright Life Of The Ultimate Miura

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