Lamborghini Miura’s first prototype is rarely seen and there’s a fair reason for that

This is the very first prototype that Lamborghini built for the Miura.

You don’t often see this in public; in fact, you almost never see it, and the reason is self-evident.

Due to a combination of factors, the car looks like it was painted like that deliberately.

But it wasn’t, it’s just time that took its all.

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A unique ‘hue’

If you only look at the color, this Miura looks like the sort of car that features in an episode of Pimp My Ride and is then found abandoned years later, like the colorful minivan found by YouTuber Tavarish.

But that’s not the case.

In the 1960s, when the Lamborghini Miura was first introduced, rules and regulations about new cars were a bit more loose, but they still existed.

Lambo still had to test the car in all kinds of different ways before they could unveil a production car.

In addition to that, Lamborghini also wanted to try different colors for it, and to be completely frank the company just didn’t have the money to build several prototypes.

So they built a prototype, known as chassis ‘0502’, and then repainted it about 20 times.

They eventually left it red, but that was 60 years ago, and that’s the reason why now it looks so…fluorescent.

Lamborghini Miura, the first supercar

Several people consider the Lamborghini Miura to be the world’s first-ever supercar.

There’s no ‘scientific’ definition for a supercar, of course, but the Miura was the first car to check all the boxes we associate with a supercar today.

Designed by the late Marcello Gandini, Miura is a high-performance car with a flamboyant body style and it has no other reason to exist other than fun and excitement.

These days, the Miura is one of the most coveted cars in the world, and it generally commands millions of dollars in the secondary market.

Unless you’re Jay Leno, who apparently got one for free.