” We begin our greatest ever countdown at 10 with a car whose name literally says it all.” ” The legend has it that when the designer first brought it out to the factory, one of the workers there said, “It’s a Countach,” which means, “Wow, my God, incredible!”" ” The Lamborghini Countach was an outrageously, deliberately provocative sexy car.” ” You’ll look at it and went, “Wow!” I mean it was quite jaw-dropping.” ” A Countach is, you know, every teenage boy’s wet dream of a sports car.” ” The Countach qualifies for a list because it brought new ground for sports cars. It looks like nothing else that had ever come before it.” ” It’s a very dramatic car. It was angular and it was all sort of carved out of a piece of rock and then put on the road and load on in. It was supposed to stop you short and said, “That’s different,” which it was.” ” The reason it looked the way it did was the Formula One technology that made its way into the car.” ” We really designed the tires for the car that were extremely wide. I mean, they were the largest tires I’ve ever put on a production car.” ” In fact, that’s the secret to this car. Because the tires were almost double than normal size, the body had to be built around them helping to give the Countach its outrageous shape. Only 3 were produced each week, which meant the waiting list to get one was a year. It also came with a price tag of $150000 inspiring the phrase “Supercar.” ” ” Supercar is a name given to a car that goes above a certain speed, sort of somewhere between here and Mars, and will go faster than anyone needs to go. So, we’re talking 150+ certainly in the mid-70s.” ” But the Countach was more than just the fastest sports car of its day. Just like Farrah Fawcett, it was also a pin-up, one that ended up in teenage boy’s bedrooms all over the world.” ” Including mine. I just dreamed of having one. Eventually after a 2-year search, I found one in Alberta, Canada, and I found out fortuitously that this particular car was the actual car that was in the poster that I had as a kid.” ” It was from that period in the ’70s with the big hairstyles wherein the padded-shoulder girls looking sort of big and brace on in Hollywood and the car looks a bit like that. It’s Italian. It’s kind of—- but it’s busty, sexy, glamorous.” ” To drive, I would have to say, it was thrilling but not relaxing. It was not a great long-distance car. The noise level was very intense. It is one of those cars that you could say, one of the best moments of your life is the first hour you drive a Countach, but the second hour is one of the worst experiences of your life.” ” ‘Cause you got no rear vision. You can’t see what you’re doing most of the time.” ” You know, the Lamborghini factory taught people how to back the car up and you actually have to put the door up.” ” Crawl out and sit on the sill with 1 foot on the gas and 1 hand on the wheel and then look over your shoulder, it showed a hangout of the car to drive it.” ” It’s silly, but for the 15-year-old boy and you, it’s absolutely fantastic.” ” It’s a car that, you know, you take from your house around and then come back to your house. It wasn’t meant to be reversed.” ” Like many things that got our attention in the ’70s and ’80s, the Countach doesn’t necessarily stand the test of time.” ” For a lot of people, this car is downright ugly.” ” It was a cross between Star Trek and something you—- The hairdresser would really want to travel around it. So, when you’re looking at Countach, if you can get lowered down or lined up down the road and actually look in the window, you would expect to see some of the big gold chain around their neck and, you know, few hairs poking out and a shiny shirt looking frightfully pleased of themselves.” ” As the car was meant to be aggressive for it’s a kind of Bee Gee on wheels who is a match to the person who drove it, look like Robin or Barry Gibb and have big bouffant hair of the time and a medallion down her big flared trousers. That’s what it’s like.” ” It’s flamboyant. It’s a bit rock. It’s a combination of Liberace and Hugh Hefner. It sums up the ’80s and ’70s. It’s just gross, I’m sorry.” ” Yes, it was one of the first supercars. It turned heads wherever it went and just looking at it helps revive the ’80s, but looking at it ultimately is the problem with the Countach. That’s why it goes no higher up the list than number 10.”