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
Lincoln-Zephyr V12 engine for 1942. Yet this V-12 never shed its reputation for service troubles, though the postwar versions were actually quite reliable. The V12 was eventually replaced by the InVincible 8, simply a version of the flathead V8 found on Ford's truck line. The Zephyr V12 was also used by Allard, Atalanta, and Brough Superior in England. Allard made three V12 cars, using the Ford V8 for all other cars at that time, Brough also made only one V12 as his others were Hudson 6 or 8 powered, and Jensen made one called the HL. The first Lincoln-Zephyr models of 1936 used