Which Italian car manufacturer is known for the Miura?

Which Italian car manufacturer is known for the Miura? Lamborghini is the Italian manufacturer known for the Miura.

Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Automobili Lamborghini in 1963 in Sant’Agata Bolognese, initially aiming to build refined grand-touring cars that could challenge established makers such as Ferrari. The Miura emerged from an engineering project developed by Gian Paolo Dallara, Paolo Stanzani and Bob Wallace, despite Lamborghini’s initial preference for more conventional touring cars.

Styled by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, the Miura introduced a transverse, rear-mid-mounted V12 and rear-wheel drive in a road-going production car. Its dramatic proportions and centralised mass made it a landmark in supercar design. When it appeared, the Miura was widely regarded as the world’s fastest production car.

Miura production lasted from 1966 to 1973. Major versions included the P400, the improved P400S and the high-performance P400SV. The model’s name came from a famous Spanish fighting-bull breeder, continuing Lamborghini’s bull-themed naming tradition. A common mistake is to identify Ferrari because the two companies were fierce Italian rivals, but the Miura is unmistakably a Lamborghini.