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The second Countach Prototype was developed in order to bring the car closer to a production model. Major modifications were seen in the analog instruments, the 4-liter engine (later available on the LP400 production model), different bumper and headlights. Also larger air scoops were added to the new vertical radiators because of insufficient cooling of the first prototype engine. They had to change the entire cooling system and drop the horizontally front mounted radiators for this new vertical ones with scoops resembling a jet engine intake. All of these modifications were performed after intensive testing on various roads and circuits.
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Lamborghini
History tells that Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari had a bit of a conflict – due to the clutch on a Ferrari car that Ferruccio owned – and that is actually why Ferruccio decided to open his own sports car company, Lamborghini, and never buy another Ferrari again. Ferruccio even employed a former Ferrari engineer, Giotto Bizzarrini, so he would use his previous experience with Ferrari’s V12 engine an... more