Lamborghini Miura chosen and featured in the company's newly created badge. The car gained the worldwide attention of automotive enthusiasts when it was chosen for the opening sequence of the original 1969 version of "The Italian Job". In press interviews of the time Ferruccio Lamborghini was reticent about his precise birth date, but stressed that he was born under the star sign Taurus the bull. The earliest model of the Miura was known as the P400 (for "Posteriore 4 litri"). It was powered by a version of the 3.9 L Lamborghini V12 engine used in the 400GT at the time. The engine
Jaguar V12 engine Jaguar V12 engine The Jaguar V12 engine was a V12 automobile engine produced by Jaguar Cars. Based loosely on an earlier design for an intended Le Mans car, the Jaguar XJ13, it was first seen in the Series 3 Jaguar E-type of 1971. The V12 was only Jaguar's second engine design to go into production in the history of the company. The all-alloy block was fitted with removable wet liners and had a SOHC two-valve alloy head with flat block mating surface, and the combustion chamber in the piston crown carved in a shallow cup form. It was regarded by