Since very few credit cars are actually good for MP, I've only heard people say the Bugatti GSV is good for MP. Barely hear about Miura, but I've been seeing a lot of people with Lamborghini Miura in MP and they compete well with king cars. What are yalla thoughts on the Miura, is it a decent car that's worth it?
The Lamborghini Miura is one of the most iconic supercars of all time - it's the first mainstream supercar to have the engine in the middle, and it paved the way to the modern supercar along with the Ferrari F40 and the Porsche 959. There were many iterations of it back in the day - the P400, the S, the SV, the SV/J, the Jota, and even a one-off Roadster and SVJ Roadster. However, what I'd consider to be the best iterations of the Miura is this chap in the profile picture.
This one-off creation started life as a standard Miura S, built and displayed in 1968, with chassis number #3781, engine number #2511 and body number #383. The S had a 3.9L V12, of course mounted in the middle, with around 365 horsepower - a 20 horsepower boost from the standard P400.
It could do 0-60 in around 6.3 seconds, and keep going to a top speed of 179mph. That was like a rocketship in the 60s, and it's not exactly slow even today. Of course it won't be the most gloriously handling thing, but the standard car was never necessarily designed for the track exclusively. It was all about Ferruccio showing Enzo that he too could make a supercar, and wouldn't be pushed around by a man who called him a 'tractor-maker'.
Although that wasn't technically a lie.
https://preview.redd.it/h0018i4i4wa81.jpg?width=742&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17f1cbcf5e69fa2d9dd220deec550e6aaee13015
What we now know as the Miura R (or alternatively the Miura SVR from some sources) changed hands around 9 times, before it made it's way into the hands of Mr Heinz Straber, based in Japan, who wanted to build a car even more extreme than the five Miura SVJs that Lamborghini had made in response to the original being destroyed.
And so he shipped it back to Sant'Agata Bolognese, where - with the help of Lamborghini's own workers - he had it transformed into what you see in the pictures here.
A massive, pedestrian-slicing front splitter was fitted just under the rounded grille, giving the front a more sharp and aggressive angle to it. The pretty black eyelashes and grille covers were completely stripped away, and the racing fuel filler was relocated to the bonnet for that proper performance look. The headlight bulbs themselves were pushed back, no longer pop-ups, which made the front look somehow wider and lower.
https://preview.redd.it/iuh06rpi4wa81.jpg?widt
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