Pretty Sure That's A Composite Lambo Dude.

"-Amateur" (amateur) 11/20/2013 at 10:00 • Filed to: Lambo

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What happens when you replace all the sheet metal from a Lambo with composite materials? Awesome happens.

Lamborghini gave the Countach to their newly formed "composites department" as a testbed for SCIENCE! The department was headed by Mr. Pagani himself and we all know how radical he can be...HUAYRAAAA!!!

They stripped the Lambo of all it's precious metal minus its spaceframe and replaced its guts with sweet sweet aluminum/kevlar/carbon fiber composites. Pretty advanced stuff for 1987.

The result was a leaner Countach that looked very industrial. Doesn't matter, it only weighed 2160 lbs which was a hell of a lot less than its fatty metal Countach siblings. It also was able to attain a top speed of roughly 205 mph at their test track using a mildy tuned engine rated at 490 bhp.

the Countach Evoluzione was too cool for this world. Obviously mass producing something like this was ludicrously expensive for Lambo and any body repairs in the event of an accident were like impossible. So what's a man to do? Lambo slams it into a crash barrier for SCIENCE! It gave them valuable data on the composite crash structure.

Jagvar > -Amateur 11/20/2013 at 10:15

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They could build something exactly like this today, and I would buy it. You know, if I had Lambo money.

William Byrd > -Amateur 11/20/2013 at 10:31

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That. Is. Awesome.

This will get kids into science.

mambochapchap > -Amateur 11/20/2013 at 10:59

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I'm pretty sure I saw this in a magazine as a kid....and it proceeded to blow my mind, pieces of which I am still collecting to this day.

Aston Martin Vespertine > -Amateur 06/13/2014 at 12:04

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Even when he was a wee lad, Mr. Pagani was rocking his trademark bad-ass pose. "I'm more classy than you." it says.