The 1968 Miura Roadster Returns to MUDETEC

Lamborghini traces the Aventador Ultimae's design DNA back to a single 54-year-old show car.

Lamborghini's MUDETEC museum in Sant'Agata Bolognese is hosting the sole surviving 1968 Miura Roadster through October and November, placing it alongside the production Miura coupe.

Bertone's show-car specification, restored

The Miura Roadster debuted at Bertone's stand during the 1968 Brussels Motor Show in Lamè Sky Blu paintwork over a white leather interior with red carpeting, a combination calibrated to stop traffic on a motor show floor.

Roadster and coupe side by side at MUDETEC

Lamborghini says specific design cues carried forward from this car to a special Ad Personam Ultimae Roadster project, including a specially created Azzurro Flake body color that interpreted the original Lamè Sky Blu with an updated metallic flake element.

The open cockpit that survived a zinc-alloy makeover

The International Lead and Zinc Research Association extensively modified the car after Bertone sold it, repainting it dark olive green with a matching green interior and renaming it ZN 75 to showcase zinc alloys in automotive applications.

Collector significance rooted in Gandini's 1968 original

The Aventador Ultimae's specific design configuration traces to a car Marcello Gandini built for the 1968 Brussels Motor Show, giving it a collector narrative that should age well.

The Miura Roadster under MUDETEC's floor lighting

The wider MUDETEC collection includes a yellow Miura coupe, a red 400 GT, and a blue Islero among other models, making the visit worthwhile even beyond the Roadster itself.

Heritage argument made with hardware, not rhetoric

Lamborghini brought the actual car back to the factory and put it under lights, inviting visitors to make the visual connection between a 1968 show car and the final V12 Aventador themselves.

A ground-up rethink, not a roof delete

Marcello Gandini and the Bertone team redesigned the rear section entirely, eliminated the coupe's engine cover slats to expose the transverse V12, and relocated interior switches from the ceiling, revealing how thoroughly the Roadster was reconsidered for the open-air format.