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Lamborghini Countach

Test date Thursday, October 09, 1980  Price as tested £49,855

The amazing Lamborghini Countach is as unusual now as it was when it made its prototype bow at the 1971 Geneva Show. How does the LP500S differ from the LP 400S (still, incidentally, in production)? The increase in engine capacity to 4.7-litres is accompanied by a reduced compression ratio (9.2 instead of 10.5 to 1), larger Webers (45 DCOE 142s instead of 40 DCOEs) and revised combustion chambers, which together give the V12 an allegedly less ‘peaky’ power curve and 13.9 per cent greater maximum torque of 303lb ft.

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