drama QUEENS.

FEATURES The Piedmontese expletive "Countach" must have echoed through Bertone's Turin studio as Marcello Gandini's Miura replacement took shape in the winter of 1970. A new carbon monocoque replaced the old spaceframe, while aluminium subframes carried forged alloy wishbones and push rod coilovers, and a new V12 was completely re-engineered in the shadow of the old Bizzarrini unit. A far cry from Ferruccio's sober dreams of GT perfection, Sant'Agata would sell forward-looking drama But a fully production-ready Countach took until the 1973 Geneva show to arrive, with deliveries the following year. Underneath remained the fundamentals inherited via the Diablo from the Countach: a steel spaceframe, wishbone suspension and the Bizzarrini V12 placed longitudinally at its heart. [Extracted from the article]