Lamborghini introduced the Countach in 1974, popularizing the sharply angled wedge-shaped supercar design.
The Countach followed Lamborghini’s Miura and used a mid-mounted V12 engine, but its styling was dramatically different. Designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, it featured sharp geometric surfaces, a low nose, and distinctive scissor doors on production versions.
The production model appeared in 1974 after the prototype had attracted attention at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show. Its engineering retained Lamborghini’s emphasis on a longitudinally mounted mid-engine layout, while its visual design became one of the defining automotive shapes of the 1970s and 1980s.
The Countach is often remembered as the first wedge-shaped supercar, but earlier concept cars had already explored wedge forms. Its importance was making that visual language famous in a production car and influencing later Lamborghini designs.