The history of Lamborghini

Ferruccio Lamborghini was a young man living in the province of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. After serving as a mechanic in the Italian Royal Air Force during World War II, he joined a commercial tractor factory built on World War II military installations. By the mid-1950s, Lamborghini's tractor factory, Lamborghini Tractors S.p.A., had become one of the country's largest manufacturers of agricultural equipment. He also had a successful manufacturer of gas heaters and air conditioners.

In 1958, he purchased his first Ferrari automobile, a 250GT, and has since bought a few more. Ferruccio Lamborghini loved Ferrari cars, but he thought they seemed very brash and noisy for ordinary roads, and were clearly better suited to the track. When Ferruccio Lamborghini had a problem with the clutch in his Ferrari, he realized that the automobile clutch used in the Ferrari turned out to be exactly the same as the one used in the Lamborghini tractor. Ferruccio Lamborghini went to Ferrari and asked for a better quality clutch but was refused. Ferrari said that Ferruccio Lamborghini was just a tractor maker, so he didn't know anything about sports cars. So Lamborghini thought it would be a good idea to set up a car manufacturing plant to realize his quest for sports car perfection.

Automobili Lamborghini is a sports car manufacturer located in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy. The company was founded by Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963. The founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini, was a mechanic in the Italian Royal Air Force when he was young, and because of his work, Ferruccio was very familiar with mechanical principles. After World War II, a large amount of military material was abandoned, and Ferruccio Lamborghini began to use this surplus material to build tractors, and founded the original Lamborghini company, whose main business was to build tractors, fuel dispensers and air-conditioning systems.In the mid-1950s, due to the mastery of mechanical principles and mechanical engineering, as well as excellent business acumen, Lamborghini became the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer at the time.

Ferruccio Lamborghini had a passion for sports cars, owning a wide range of cars including Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, etc. In 1958 Ferruccio Lamborghini owned his first Ferrari 250 GT, and it was the 250 GT that Lamborghini eventually switched to building his own cars, which also reflected the brand's identity. Lamborghini's brand identity. The company's logo omits the name of the company, leaving only a stubborn bull.

There are various stories about why Ferruccio Lamborghini founded the company, the most widely circulated version being that one day when Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari were talking about the shortcomings of the 250 GT, Enzo said to Ferruccio: "I don't need someone who builds mechanized agricultural vehicles to tell me how to build a sports cars." This comment hurt Ferruccio's pride, and since then Ferruccio has been working on his own sports car. The other version is more authentic, as told by Ferruccio Lamborghini's son, Tonino Lamborghini. Ferruccio, who was driving a Ferrari 250 GT, complained about a problem with the clutch of the Ferrari car that caused the car to go out of control, injuring people watching the race. However, Enzo Ferrari ignored the complaint and told Ferruccio Lamborghini that he was not capable of driving a Ferrari 250 GT and was only fit to drive an agricultural machinery vehicle. Later, Ferruccio Lamborghini solved the problem of the Ferrari 250 GT by finding a suitable spare part to install in his company's warehouse. After that Ferruccio Lamborghini, who was extremely passionate about sports cars, started to think about producing sports cars that could fulfill his needs, better than Ferrari.

Stephen Winkelmann, now president and chief executive, remembered Lamborghini's founder: "Ferruccio Lamborghini once said that it was pointless to produce the best racing car in the world, because people would only remember the driver. But if you can produce the best cars in the world, they will always be remembered. Decades ago, Lamborghini created the extraordinary Miura, which was undoubtedly one of the best cars in the world at the time. Today, Lamborghini remains true to this consistent tradition of delivering the world's outstanding high-performance supercars."

In Italy and around the world, Lamborghini is eerie. Mysteriously born, surprising the world with one extraordinary high-performance car after another, demonic but not out to ravage the world, simply because of its otherworldly style. Lamborghini is a rare work of art for which Gandini, one of Italy's most prestigious designers, has devoted his life's work. Every angle, every line is so exciting, all silently interpreting the almost primitive wild beauty of Lamborghini. The company's logo is a bull full of strength, ready to attack its rivals. It is said that Lamborghini himself is this kind of bullishness, which also reflects the characteristics of Lamborghini's products. This is because the company produces high-powered, high-speed sports cars. The logo on the front and rear of the car omits the company name, leaving only a stubborn bull.

In 1963, Lamborghini's car factory was officially opened in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, and Ferruccio Lamborghini began assembling his own design team. The first Lamborghini chassis was built by a team consisting of Gian Paolo Dallara, an engineer from Ferrari, and university graduates Paolo Stanzani and Bob Wallance, among other members. A modified version of this chassis was used for Lamborghini's first sports car, the 350 GTV, which was officially unveiled at the Turin Motor Show in October of the same year.

The 350 GTV was really just a show car, and the real production version was officially unveiled at the 1964 Geneva Motor Show, named the 350 GT. The production version used a re-tuned chassis and was powered by a V12 engine with 280 horsepower. That year Lamborghini produced 13 350GTs, and to compete with Ferrari, the 350GT was priced slightly lower than its Ferrari counterpart. The car was then produced for two years, with a total production run of 120 units.

In 1965, engineer Gian Paolo Dallara modified the 350GT's V12 engine to increase maximum power to 320 hp, which was used in the 400GT.

Lamborghini officially unveiled the 400GT at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show.

After the launch of the 400GT, the car was well received by consumers. Lamborghini then launched several versions of the car. Subsequently, Lamborghini launched various versions of the 400GT, and in 1968, Lamborghini launched two models, the Islero GT and the Miura P400. The former was designed by a former Maserati designer, which made the Islero GT have a lot of shadows of the Maserati model, which was criticized by many consumers. The other car, the Miura P400, has attracted a lot of attention, as it is the first Lamborghini sports car with a mid-engine layout, pioneering Lamborghini's mid-engine design.

In 1971 Ferruccio Lamborghini's tractor company began to experience a financial crisis when Cento Trattori's, the largest customer for Lamborghini tractors, canceled a long term contract with Lamborghini, causing Lamborghini's sales to suffer dramatically.1972 Ferruccio Lamborghini, at his wit's end, sold the Lamborghini Tractor Company to Italian agricultural equipment manufacturer SAME and concentrated on Automobili Lamborghini, but Automobili Lamborghini also began to gradually lose its financial backing and model development slowed down.

Despite the financial difficulties, Lamborghini launched the Countach in 1974, an important model in Lamborghini's history. Designed by Marcello Gandini, the low-slung bodywork and angular design of the Countach gave the car an aggressive appearance. The Countach was initially powered by a 4.0L V12 engine, which was later replaced by 5.0L and 5.2L engines.The Countach was in production until 1990, with a total of 2,042 units **** produced.

Since then, Ferruccio Lamborghini has continued to seek financial backing to support Automobili Lamborghini's operations, and in 1980 Automobili Lamborghini went bankrupt, and was purchased by the Mimran Brothers from Switzerland.1985 saw the introduction of an off-roader, the LM002, which was the first production off-roader in the history of Lamborghini.

In April 1987, Lamborghini, in great need of capital, was resold again, this time to Chrysler Automobiles in the U.S. In 1990, a new sports car was launched, a brand new replacement for the Countach, which Lamborghini had given the name Diablo (Ghost) to show off the car's toughness and to create the fastest production sports car of the era. In 1998, Lamborghini changed hands again, and it was this time that Lamborghini became extremely well financed. The new owner of Lamborghini was the German Volkswagen Group, and Lamborghini was placed under the management of Audi. Under Audi's patronage, Lamborghini had its own management team to run the company. Under Audi's management, Lamborghini launched its flagship sports car, the Murcielago, in 2001, which featured a mid-engine layout and all-wheel drive, with a low profile and streamlined body design that made the Murcielago visually dynamic.

In 2003, Lamborghini launched the Gallardo, positioned slightly lower than the Murcielago and priced relatively inexpensively, which was designed from the ground up in 2000, based on Italdesign Giugiaro's design proposals, which Lamborghini's own designers combined with these parameters to create the final Gallardo, in accordance with the company's own design style. In 2007, a top-of-the-line Lamborghini supercar, the Reventon, was introduced, the most expensive Lamborghini model of the year, named after a bull in a bullring that became famous when it killed a famous matador in a bullfight in 1943. The Reventon is a futuristic, stealthy fighter jet-like model.

On November 5, 2010, the last Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV rolled off the production line, marking the end of Murcielago production and the imminent launch of Lamborghini's latest flagship model. Geneva Motor Show.