In the eyes of many, the Miura is the world’s first supercar. Before it, there were powerful, fast cars with excellent road manners, but the Miura was the first to have it all. It was the first to take an exotic specification born of its original purpose—to tear up the racetrack—and adapt it for the road. It had a monocoque body and a mid-mounted engine, features that until then had been the almost exclusive preserve of racing cars. At its heart was a 3.9-liter V12 producing 350 hp at 7,000 rpm, a figure considered astronomical at the time, along with a 9.8:1 compression ratio, also high for its era.
All this called for 100-octane fuel and an engine rebuild roughly every 50,000 km. All that goodness was wrapped in one of the most beautiful body shapes ever seen. Price: between $1.5 million and $4 million.
