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Lamborghini Miura SV Yellow Kyosho 1:18

Lamborghini Miura SV Yellow Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
08317Y
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About the Lamborghini Miura SV Yellow Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Lamborghini Miura SV reproduces the final and most powerful evolution of the Miura, with widened rear fenders, a smoothed nose without eyelash trim, and opening doors and engine cover. Finished in yellow, this piece anchors a Lamborghini shelf with the most developed version of Bertone's mid-engine design.

Kyosho has spent years building the Lamborghini Miura at 1:18, working through the P400, the S, and finally the SV that closed out production. This yellow example represents the version most collectors treat as definitive, and the difference shows in every widened panel.

Kyosho's Diecast Approach to the Miura Lineage

Zinc Alloy Weight and Opening Panels

Lift this Miura clear of its packaging and the zinc alloy body announces itself immediately. Real heft settles into the hand, the kind plastic-bodied toys never achieve. Kyosho hinges the doors, hood, and rear engine cover on metal pivots, and the rear clamshell lifts to reveal the transversely mounted V12, the layout that made the Miura the first genuine mid-engine road car from a major manufacturer. The panel gaps stay tight and consistent around the nose and doors, which matters on a shape built almost entirely from compound curves.

Reproducing the SV's Widened Rear Haunches

The SV differs from earlier Miura variants at the rear, where Lamborghini widened the fenders to cover larger tires and correct a genuine handling weakness on the P400 and S. Kyosho captures that flare accurately. The smoothed nose, which lost the fixed "eyelash" trim rings around the headlights that earlier Miuras carried, reads correctly on this casting too. The yellow finish sits evenly across those wider panels, with no orange-peel texture under direct light, and the black lower rocker trim separates cleanly from the body color rather than bleeding at the edges.

The SV as Lamborghini's Final Word on the Miura Shape

Bertone's Design Refined Through Three Generations

Marcello Gandini's Bertone shape barely changed silhouette across the Miura's production run, but the SV represents Lamborghini's last and most complete engineering pass on it. Output from the 4.0-liter V12 reached its highest point in this configuration, and Lamborghini split the engine and gearbox lubrication into separate systems, correcting a shared-sump arrangement that had caused wear issues on earlier cars. Those mechanical refinements are invisible on a static model, but they explain why the SV draws more attention than the P400 or S among collectors building a Miura chronology. Kyosho tooled the SV as its own casting rather than reworking the S with add-on parts, which is exactly why the widened arches read as integral rather than grafted on.

Placing the Miura SV in a Supercar Collection

Scale Footprint and Shelf Presence

At 1:18, the Miura's low, wide proportions produce a footprint of roughly 22 centimeters, a shape that sits noticeably lower than most cabinet neighbors and draws the eye precisely because of that stance. Displayed beside other Bertone-bodied Lamborghinis, or ahead of the Countach that eventually replaced it, the SV reads as the bridge between the 1960s supercar template and the wedge era that followed. Collectors weighing this Kyosho diecast against sealed-resin alternatives from boutique producers are trading a small amount of paint-line sharpness for doors that actually swing and an engine cover that lifts, a fair exchange for anyone who wants to handle the model rather than leave it untouched behind glass. This SV works best as the anchor piece in a Lamborghini-focused run rather than a standalone purchase, the version that completes the story the earlier Miuras only started.

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