The Lamborghini Miura is proof that your boss needs to back off | Jason Cammisa Revelations | Ep. 19

The Miura is the ultimate Delegation Special — it exists only because Ferruccio Lamborghini backed off and allowed his team of young, talented engineers and designers to do what they do best. A finicky mid-engined supercar is the opposite of the Rolls-Royce-like GTs that Ferruccio wanted to build, yet it’s the Miura that singlehandedly elevated Lamborghini to the likes of Ferrari. The four men chiefly behind the car were all in their twenties when the Miura debuted: Giampaolo Dallara, 29, senior engineer Paolo Stanzani, 29, assistant engineer Bob Wallace, 27, chief development engineer Marcello Gandini, 27, designer The Miura used the 4-liter Bizzarrini V-12 designed for the 350GT and 400GT, rotated by 90º and mounted transversely in a casting that included the transmission and differential. Power claims were all over the map, but Road & Track’s test car banged off a 0-60 in 5.5 seconds, through the quarter-mile in 13.9 sec @ 107.5 mph, and achieved a top