Lamborghini Miura (P400)
Why 2.8: The transverse V12 sitting sideways over the gearbox rewrote what a supercar's layout could be, and the noise and the styling both still land. What doesn't land as well in modern ownership is the famous high-speed front-end lift Lamborghini never fully cured — a flaw that quietly argues against using the car anywhere near what the V12 can do, and the market has responded by keeping most survivors well under that limit.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
A quad-cam V12 mounted transversely a few inches behind your head, four triple-choke Webers drawing air in the same space, and gear whine because the engine shares its oil with the gearbox. But it stops at 7,000 rpm and the mechanical racket alongside it is not melody, which keeps it just off the top of the index.
12-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 7,000 rpm redline · rated 9.1 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €18k (1967) → €1.1M (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Built before ISOFIX existed, so there are no anchor points at all. A child seat here is a seatbelt installation in the only passenger seat there is.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
Bertone's shape did more to invent the modern supercar than the mechanical layout underneath it, and both have kept the Miura in the conversation for sixty years running. Fewer than 800 P400s were built across the whole model's run, and today's owners are overwhelmingly collectors rather than drivers — a car this consequential to the genre gets treated as the genre's founding document, kept indoors and shown rather than exercised. The high-speed nose lift that unsettled period road testers hasn't gone away with age, and it gives cautious owners one more reason to keep the mileage low. What driving happens tends to be short, careful, and photographed.