Iain Tyrrell talks about one of my favorite cars of all time, the Lamborghini 400GT.
Here’s my take. Lamborghini, when it popped the Countach cork, went off to some kind of schoolboy fantasy design trip, and they’ve stayed with it ever since. I know, there’s a market for that kind of thing because clearly there is a vast customer market of men with small penises.
But their first cars — the 350GT and the 400GT — were the closest to old man Ferruccio’s original plan for his cars: fast, reliable and comfortable tourers: the antithesis of the capricious and unreliable Ferrari sports cars, in other words.
Now watch the video and listen to that glorious V12 pushing the back of the car down as it accelerates.
Want.
I’ve ranted before about the foolishness of men who would drop half a million bucks on a car, and I still feel that way. But I might just make a teeny exception for a 400GT (because that’s what a well-restored one of these goes for, if you can find one). The one that Tyrrell’s driving would be worth far north of that sum because of the custom-built pistons, amongst other delicious things, that he and his team of automotive wizards has put together.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go and check my lottery tickets.