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
V12 engine 12-cylinder engines in Formula One, either V12 or flat-12. The last V12 engine used in Formula One was the Ferrari 044, on the Ferrari 412T2 cars driven by Jean Alesi and Gerhard Berger in 1995. In the late 1960s Nissan used a V12 in the Japanese Grand Prix and again in the early-1990s Group C races. At the Paris motor show 2006 Peugeot presented a new racing car, as well as a luxury saloon concept car, both called 908 HDi FAP and 908 RC and fitted with a V12 Diesel engine producing around or even surpassing . This took part