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Lamborghini Once Bolted Two Turbos To The Countach

How fast does a Lamborghini need to be? - by James Lisle
  • 07 May 2018
Lamborghini Once Bolted Two Turbos To The Countach

Because if there was a supercar from the 1980's that needed some extra kick, it was Lamborghini's halo superstar.

1984 was an interesting time for the motoring world. Ferrari brought out its soon-to-be iconic Testarossa, Ford dropped the little white RS200 bombshell on the Group B World Rally Championship, and Peugeot had just released the 205 GTi - what is considered by some anyway - to be the best hot hatch of all time.

But none of that mattered, because Lamborghini, in all of its pre-Audi ownership lunacy, concluded that it was a good idea to pump 1.5 bar of boostinto an engine that was originally designed in 1963.

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With said 'sensible' amount of boost, and a lick of black paint, power levels the 4.7-litre V12' rose from the adequate 276kW (375hp) found in the latest LP500 S, up to a colossal 549kW (746hp). 549kW - in 1984! What's more impressive is the torque figure, which was more than doubled, from 418Nm to 876Nm. This thing was still running on carbs, by the way. Six of them.

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Unlike most 'tuned' turbo cars of the era however, the 1515kg Countach could actually put most of its power down in the low-to-mid ranges. Whereas everything else with circa-600hp would just light up its wheels, the combination of the Countach's already tall gearing and fat 345-section rear tires (the widest in production, up until the Aventador S) meant that the added performance really paid dividends. Should you have the testies to hold it flat anyway.

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Unfortunately though, because Lamborghinicommissioned Austrian engineer, Franz Albert, to make just two of these, you'll probably never see one on the road today. But it gets worse - only one is known to still exist. Apparently, the other one was crashed, or 'lost'.

Either way, that makes the Lamborghini Countach LP 500 Turbo S, quite literally, one of a kind. Shame...

This article originally appeared on CarsGuide.

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