LIKE ALL THE BEST STORIES, THERE IS more than one version and no one can quite agree which one is true. The most popular version of how the Lamborghini Countach got its name is that a technician saw the original show car for the first time in all its impossibly low, impossibly wide origami glory as it was being hurriedly prepped for its début at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show and blurted ‘Countach!’ It is an exclamation in the local Piedmontese dialect for which there is no direct translation in English. The “Lamborghini Cor Blimey” would not really have the same ring to it.
True or not, the new supercar codenamed LP500 did not yet have a name and this one stuck. And it is a great name. Countach! And now the name is back on the Aventador-based Countach LPI 800-4. Only 112 will be built, at £1.7 million (Rs 15.65 crore) apiece, and all are sold.
As a kid I played with a model Countach, but I am fully prepared for it to be rubbish
Seeing both of these cars together for the first time, “Countach” is as good an exclamation as any. As the scissor doors on both cars are lofted upwards, beckoning us to go for a drive, the English language
