I'll need to either change the title or at least make note of the issue.

As I read some of the background materials, I wondered about the 200 MPH claim. Specifically, could a fresh motor, with no seasoning, perform at this level? Would a test driver take this sort of risk, before delivering a very expensive car to the customer?

Would you agree with the "world's fastest production car (1975)" as a description? Which road car might have been faster, in early 1975? This might call for some research, over the weekend. I'm sure that, back in 1975, I had all the right magazines to answer this question, but -- against my wishes -- these magazines are long gone!!

Jeff

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: They weren't the only ones at it, but Lamborghini were well known
: for vastly exaggerating performance figures and for the Countach
: in particular. Independent tests had the LP400 topping out
: somewhere around 160 mph, and the power increase wouldn't
: account for another 40. Not that the tyres were rated anywhere
: near that anyway. But as the info came from Lamborghini, it's
: tempting to dismiss it as more flim-flam.

: http://www.autozine.org/countach/countach_7.htm