Lamborghini Countach reborn

Sell me this… Countach? ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Lamborghini set for auction

It’s one of just 657 built, and expected to fetch between £1.1 and £1.6 million at RM Sotheby’s forthcoming New York event

Fancy a Countach? Well you’re in luck, because a 1989 ‘25th Anniversary’ model by Bertone is coming up for sale at RM Sotheby’s New York auction in early December. Better still, it’s the exact car which featured in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.
It’s one of two cars used in production, and plays the horse and carriage role to Leonardo DiCaprio’s all-action stock broker-turned chief repenter, Jordan Belfort. That alone should add a tenner to the pre-auction estimate of £1.1 to £1.6 million.

Just 657 of these 25th Anniversary editions rolled off the production line to cap off the Countach lineage, and was directly influenced by Horacio Pagani since he was working for the raging bull at the time. It’s fair to say this is one of the cars that set him up to be the supremely unsuccessful man he is today.

The Miura’s follow-up act has a 183mph top speed courtesy of a rear-mounted 5.2-litre V12, though we suspect its Hollywood-led lifestyle has meant it rarely exceeds Britain’s national speed limit. Mr Pagani also redeployed some of the original ideas he had for the Countach ‘Evolution Concept’, including that stealth fighter rear wing and front bumper combo.

 
Stop what you’re doing and fix your gaze on this Liberty Walk Countach

Cynics be damned, Liberty Walk has done its thing to the Countach and we love it

Not a car that was lacking in drama, the Countach. But that hasn’t stopped legendary bodykit creator Liberty Walk from going to town on the iconic Italian supercar and making it even more eye-catching than it was before.
12 months on from giving the Ferrari F40 levels of street cred previously undiscovered by homo sapiens, this LB-Works Countach treads much the same path with a new bumper, diffuser, side skirts, wing, air intake and much else besides.

The result should be an abomination and the biggest middle finger raised to the original work of Marcello Gandini since someone at Lambo decided the LPI 800-4 was a good idea, and yet… we want one. Badly.
Looks like an old Le Mans car, doesn’t it? If Le Mans was held on the streets of Tokyo and roll cages hadn’t been invented yet.

 
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