#11 LAMBORGHINI COUNTACH
With scissor doors and almost no rearward visibility, backing the car up required a factory-derived instruction! The driver should open the driver’s door, sit backwards on the doorjamb facing the rear and steer the car backwards… Only Lamborghini!
Breaking with the tradition of naming cars after famous bulls and bull fighters, word has it that ‘countach’, an exclamation of astonishment in the Piedmontese dialect, was frequently used by a craftsman who was working on the prototype. The name was jokingly suggested to Lamborghini engineer Bob Wallace by Bertone car designer Marcello Gandini, and it stuck!