COUNTER ATTACK

HOW SANT’AGATA’S MOST ICONIC BADGE ROARED BACK TO LIFE

- ANDY ENRIGHT

COUNTACH! SOME FIFTY years after the iconic Lamborghini supercar was revealed at the 1971 Geneva Show, Sant’Agata has revived the nameplate for a limited run of 112 homage models based on the underpinnings of the Sián FKP37 hybrid hypercar. Revealed at The Quail motorsport gathering at Pebble Beach this year, credit for the styling of the Countach LPI 800-4 goes not to Marcello Gandini, but to Mitja Borkert’s team at Lamborghini Centro Stile.

“The first Countach has been present in our Centro Stile as a model for some years now”, explains Borkert. “Whenever I look at it, it gives me goosebumps and it serves as the perfect reminder for me and the entire design team to design every future Lamborghini in a visionary and futuristic way. This is an unnegotiable part of our DNA, the essence if you so will. The first Countach shaped the Lamborghini design DNA like no other car; the new Countach translates that unconventional and edgy character into the future.”

Given that the hardpoints are shared with the Sián, it’s unsurprising that some of the proportioning looks similar. The Sián already carried over a number of design cues redolent of the Countach such as the trapezoidal bonnet feature line, the scissor doors, the sculpting of the roof that paid tribute to the original periscope and three-point rear light graphic. The nuovo Countach extends that theme still further.