Twenty Miuras, 500 Km, One New V12: Lamborghini's 2026 Polo Storico Giro

The Miura turns 60, and Lamborghini sent twenty of them across four Italian regions to prove its mid-engine philosophy is still alive.

Lamborghini structured the entire week around a single proposition: the Miura's mid-engine V12 philosophy is not a museum piece but a living thread running through every generation of the company's flagship cars.

The layout that invented the supercar

Gian Paolo Dallara and Paolo Stanzani, working under the direction of Ferruccio Lamborghini, developed a transverse, mid-mounted V12 for a road car — a layout that gave the Miura a low center of gravity and weight distribution no front-engine GT could match.

Brugnato's floral carpets greet the convoy

In Brugnato, the town created traditional infiorate — floral carpets — in its main squares to greet the Miuras, a gesture that speaks to how these cars register with communities that have no particular connection to the automotive world.

Polo Storico certification on the road, not on a lawn

Many heritage programs authenticate and restore, but fewer actively organize events that put priceless cars through 500-kilometer road tours with factory logistical support.

Revuelto paces the Miura parade at Imola

Lamborghini unveiled the Fenomeno Roadster at a gala dinner specifically for the Miura collectors — the audience most likely to appreciate, and purchase, a car that threads the Miura's aesthetic DNA through a modern V12 architecture.

Six decades of V12s on one circuit

The Revuelto's naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 traces its conceptual lineage to the engine Dallara and Stanzani first mounted transversely in Sant'Agata Bolognese six decades ago.

Apennine passes that double as Lamborghini test roads

The final driving day crossed the Futa and Raticosa passes, roads that carry real weight in Lamborghini's engineering history because they remain active testing routes for current vehicle development.

Bob Wallace's legacy in every variant

Bob Wallace, Lamborghini's New Zealand-born test driver, pushed each Miura variant harder than any customer would, and his feedback shaped the progressive improvements from P400 through SV.

From Carrara marble to Florence by afternoon

Day three covered roughly 220 kilometers between sea and hills, with a lunch stop at Robot City Carrara that placed centuries-old marble quarrying alongside modern robotics before the convoy reached Florence by afternoon.

Preservation means function, not just appearance

The Giro format, where certified cars are driven hard through mountain passes rather than displayed on a lawn, reinforces the idea that preservation means function, not just appearance.

The only continuous mid-engine V12 lineage in production

Only Lamborghini can park its current hybrid flagship next to the car that started the supercar category and claim a continuous V12 thread between them — and the Polo Storico Giro exists, in part, to make sure nobody forgets it.