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The Countach brought the doors, and the bulls kept the names
Scissor doors and a V12, from the 1970s on. The model names stayed with the bullfight.
Lena Voss, Editor · 8 September 2026
The Countach is the Lamborghini from the 1970s with the shape people draw from memory: a wedge, a V12 behind the driver, and doors that open upward. Those doors became the public gesture of the brand. You can dislike the theater and still admit it is what a stranger means by the car.
The names are a system
Countach is not a bull. Many of the others are. Miura is a breed of fighting bull. Later V12 cars carried the line on under names from that world: Diablo, Murciélago, Aventador. The smaller cars, Gallardo and then Huracán, used a V10 and kept the same habit of naming. Huracán is a bull's name as well.
We are listing the line so the desk uses it correctly. We are not ranking them, and we are not attaching prices. A Countach is the door and the wedge. An Aventador is the later V12 flagship in that succession. A Huracán is the V10 car that sat beside it. That is the map.
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