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kleinbl00  ·  3068 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the coolest sports car of all time?

We will even forgive you for pointing to the 1980 instead of the '76 LP400, which is the one that's actually aged well.

No wings, no spoilers, no bullshit, 70 series tires. Marcello Gandini was 33 and didn't even know how to drive when Lamborghini asked him to design the thing in '71. The '76, the first one you could buy, was almost identical to what rolled out at the Geneva Auto Show.





mk  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, I'll concede that the '76 is nothing less by having less, however to me, the '80 says "Roll up your blazer sleeves".

The '76 has hints of muscle car and guitar. This is what the '80 was ushering in:

kleinbl00  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Quite.

To be fair, the covered-in-spoilers Lambo is more iconic. Much like goobster though, I object to it because it's less of a car and more of a parade float.

user-inactivated  ·  3067 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's fairly interesting how with a few tweaks, the car easily goes from feeling very '70s to very '80s.