Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout followed by the first De Tomaso, the Vallelunga, which mated a tuned Ford Cortina 1500 Kent engine to a VW transaxle with Hewland gearsets. Introduced at Turin in 1963, 58 were built 1964-68. Finally, in 1966, the Lamborghini Miura was the first high performance mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive roadcar. The concept behind the Miura was that of putting on the road a grand tourer featuring state-of-the-art racing-car technology of the time; hence the Miura was powered by a V12 transversely mounted between the rear wheels, solidal to the gearbox and differential. This represented an extremely innovative sportscar at a time when all
Haruma Miura July 26, 2009, Miura starred in his first stage production entitled "Hoshi no Daichi ni Furu Namida". On September 2, 2009, it was announced that Miura would play the lead role in the NTV drama "Samurai High School". Miura did a documentary show with Takeru Sato which was released 2010 as a DVD. In 2011, they released a DVD of their eco-holiday in Sabah, Malaysia. Miura played a leading role in Shinji Aoyama's 2011 film "Tokyo Park". Miura graduated from Horikoshi High School in Nakano, Tokyo on February 19, 2009. From 2016 until November 2017, Miura dated choreographer Koharu Sugawara.