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05/29/2021
A speedometer up to 320 km/h is actually quite fitting for a Lamborghini Countach. The fact that the instruments came from Stewart Warner and not Veglia is less so. But perhaps the Italians simply couldn't offer an odometer with vertically aligned numbers?
In any case, the little boys peering through the side window were probably more impressed by the speedometer than the test drivers at the time. In any case, those from "auto motor und sport" wrote in issue 15/1975:
"While the small leather steering wheel and gearshift are easy to hold, the instruments were not very practical: They are reflective and difficult to read."
The 320 km/h were also somewhat over-optimistic and reduced the usable part of the dial to a few centimeters. However, those who had a clear track back then could enjoy almost unearthly driving performance: the Taurus took 5.4 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h, a top speed of 288 km/h was not bad either, nor was the average fuel consumption of 26.6 liters.
However, DM 99,800 (equivalent to around EUR 50,918) sounds like a bargain today, especially when you know that the early Countach changed hands for more than ten times as much in modern times. And today's collectors probably don't care whether the instruments are easy to read ...
P.S. Let's not forget to mention the 50th birthday that the Lamborghini Countach will be celebrating in 2021
