The Lamborghini Countach was a mid engined sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini from 1974 to 1990. The design of the Countach popularized, but did not pioneer, the wedge-shaped, sharply angled look popular in many high performance supercars. The "cabin-forward" design concept, which pushes the passenger compartment forward in order to accommodate a larger engine, was also popularized by the Countach. The word (pronounced ) is an exclamation of astonishment in the local Piedmontese language - generally used by men on seeing an extremely beautiful woman[LINK: http://www.lamborghiniregistry.com/Countach/CountachLP500/] Countach LP500. While the term is often considered untranslatable into English, it is essentially equivalent to the British Lager Lout verbalization "Fwwaaaa", or it can also be considered the verbal equivalent of a (stereotypically American) Wolf Whistle. The Countach name stuck when

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