As Lamborghini celebrates 50 years of motoring insanity this week, now seems like an appropriate time to look back on what may have been their most important car. It's the Lamborghini that redefined what an automobile could do and created the modern supercar archetype as we know it.

Remember when Raphael got to hang out with the Lamborghini Miura, one of the most beautiful cars ever made? You're about to see one go up on smoke. Before you watch this, you may want to send the children, the elderly and other sensitive people into another room. This bound to upset them.

This is a 1969 Lamborghini Miura S, often named the most beautiful car ever made. I spent two hours with it, before it went (of course) to Jerry Seinfeld.

You probably know Aristotle Onassis for marrying your favorite presidential widow, Jacqueline. As a guy who had more money than his native country has today, he also financed the construction of the Olympic Tower on 5th Avenue, while enjoying the best music Greece could offer in the seventies. In fact, he was so…

A Jalopnik reader spotted this bruised up Lamborghini Miura in London. What happened to it is anyone's guess, but he thinks it may have fallen prey to recent flooding in England.

We love our supercars to death. We obsess over their top speeds and great power. But what is it like to actually use one? Over 500 miles of European motorway, we discover an inconvenient truth.

Director Wes Anderson was recently hired by Hyundai to create a series of ads for their new Azera sedan. If you like Anderson’s baroque, oddly retro style, you’ll love these.

Wedges may have replaced curves when it comes to supercar design, but seriously, will the Miura ever look not awesome? Never. I love the Japanese-style fender-mounted rearview mirrors on this particular example.

There's nothing like firing up a naked V12, unencumbered by sheetmetal. Here are 12 ear-stroking specimens, starting with a tiny, hand-built V12; 87cc's worth of air-cooled miraculousness. German hobbyist Ralf Drendel created this tiny masterwork just because he could.

Namesake for not only the eponymous 1966 supercar but most Lamborghinis, noted by Hemingway and countless dead matadors, these are the cunning, ferocious Miura bulls of Andalusia.