The Lamborghini Miura is often described as the world’s first supercar, but it was actually something of an accident. Rather than being ordered by Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Miura was the result of his talented and young engineers riffing on what they themselves wanted to make. They brought their ideas to Ferruccio, who told them to go ahead and develop the concept. When it was shown publicly, everyone absolutely lost it over the car. Because of this reaction, what was intended to be an exploratory concept became a production car, one which created an entirely new genre of car, forever altering the course of the sports car.

In this video, Derek Tam-Scott explores not just the story of the creation of the Miura and the significance of the car, but also what it is actually like to experience. And frankly, the drive is not all sunshine and rainbows: the Miura is famously challenging to correctly operate but what an absolute experience. And isn’t this what supercars are all about? Maximum experience, practical considerations be damned, and the Miura has all of that in spades.

BTS (behind the scenes) with DTS:

Derek Tam-Scott’s spirit age is excess of 75 years old, and nowhere is that clearer than his taste in cars. At age 16, he went to work at one of the United States' foremost vintage car dealers, which cemented his elderly taste. Now with a decade and a half’s experience buying, selling, driving, and brokering classic and exotic cars, he’s experienced many of the world’s most iconic cars. And even liked some of them.

Most of the car enthusiasts of Derek’s generation (and well, let’s be honest, even a generation or two before him) don’t have much experience with the magic of vintage cars prior to the 1980s, and therefore lack the knowledge and exposure to get genuinely excited about them. The goal of BTS is to give an insider’s perspective on why these cars particularly are great...or at least interesting and noteworthy. Derek brings his encyclopedic knowledge and broad experience together to contextualize these cars to give the audience understanding of both why it matters, and what it’s actually like to experience the cars.

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Ferruccio Lamborghini holding a carburetor for a front-engined car https://motorvalley.it/wp-content/upl...

Ferruccio Lamborghini and several of the young engineers who worked at Lamborghini in the early years (1963 photo maybe?), this is a 350 GT engine. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/3e/...

Ferruccio with Miura at the factory https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/12/...

Ferruccio and Nuccio Bertone at the Geneva show stand https://drivetribe.imgix.net/BIYx2e6V...

Ferruccio with model of 350 GT https://tijuiliando.com/wp-content/up...

Lamborghini factory with Miuras on the production line https://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y14...

Ferrari 250 GTE similar to the one that Ferruccio owned: https://ferrari-cdn.thron.com/deliver...

Early press image of Lamborghini 350 GT https://images.honestjohn.co.uk/image...

Naked Miura chassis as displayed at Turin in Oct 1965 https://www.planetdiecast.com/hwdphot...
Gandini sketch:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/32/...

Miura on the show stand at Geneva in 1966: https://kidston.com/views/themes/uplo...

Ferrari 330 GTC (also unveiled at Geneva in 1966) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/co...

Cover of Car Magazine article I reference in which LJK Setright did 1000 miles in a Miura https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BIQAAO...