The Miura is the Lamborghini with the engine behind the seats

The Miura is the Lamborghini that set the idea. It is a low car from the 1960s with a V12 mounted behind the seats, transversely, under a rear deck. Before it, a fast Lamborghini was still a front-engine grand tourer. After it, the picture of the brand was a mid-engine car.

Why the name still comes up

People call the Miura the first supercar. The phrase is a judgement, and we will mark it as one. The mechanical fact does not need the phrase. A road car from a small Italian firm carried a V12 behind the driver and was built in Sant'Agata. That layout is what later Lamborghinis inherited.

We will not quote a top speed. Period claims are a good way to start an argument and a bad way to write a desk note. The Miura's place in the story is the layout and the timing: the 1960s, the engine in the middle, the car that made the later cars make sense.