The Lamborghini Countach, one of the automaker’s most famous products, got its name from the Piedmontese vulgarity "contacc," which literally means “contagion” but is now used to describe a person or thing of breathtaking beauty. If you believe legendary factory driver Valentino Balboni, the name stuck when Lambo engineers pulled the sheets off of a development mule, prompting a security guard in the room to take in its outrageous design and unconsciously utter, "Ah, countach!"
