1969 Lamborghini Miura S ‘Jota Specification’
Conceived by chassis engineer Gian Paolo Dallara and styled by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, the Miura placed its 3.9-liter V-12 transversely behind the driver at a time when most performance cars still relied on front-mounted engines.
The low, wide body and distinctive eyelash headlight surrounds gave the car an immediately recognizable silhouette that few contemporaries could match.
The 1968 Miura S brought a power increase of roughly 20 horsepower over the original P400 (raising output to about 370 horsepower), while the SV followed in 1971 with output reaching approximately 385 horsepower.
But the most extreme expression of the platform came from the Jota (pronounced “Yota”), a track-focused machine developed by works test driver Bob Wallace to explore FIA Appendix J regulations.
Stripped of considerable weight and fitted with heavily modified engine internals, including higher compression and revised camshafts, the Jota produced around 440 horsepower.
The original Jota (chassis 5084) was destroyed in a crash in 1971, though Lamborghini subsequently produced a very small number of factory-built SVJ examples, and a handful of period and later private conversions to similar specifications have appeared over the years.
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