Ferruccio Lamborghini

born in Italy in 1916

Fascinated with engines from

an early age

Joined the army during word

war II

became very much in demand

at fixing engines

setup a small car and motorcycle

repair shop

desperate need for tractors

build about one tractor a month

from derelict military vehicles

He began building his own tractor

engines

rate of over 400 a month in 1960

manufacturing heaters and air

conditioning units for buildings

disappointed with his cars engines

visit Enzo Ferrari and he dismissed him

Ferrari could not do better

The Lamborghini story is told rapidly : the others weren't

good enough

build his own car with a V12 engine

Giampaolo Dallara

had 4 cams and 4 big bore valves per cylinder

350 HP

all aluminum engine

prototype for all future Lamborghini engines

The First Lamborghini Car

The Lamborghini "350 GTV" prototype was shown to the public on the Turin Auto Show of 1963

Over 130 were sold

400 GT and then 400 GT 2+2

made the Lamborghini name known throughout the world

GT 400 2+2

MiuraOFerruccio allowed his engineers to

design and construction a new car

O truly ahead of its time

OMade Lamborghini legendary

O It shocked even companies like

Ferrari and Maserati

Oshown on November 1965 at the

Turin Auto Show

Oname taken from the ferocious Spanish

fighting bulls

Oengine was transversely mid-mounted

seen into real F1 race cars

Oby Marcello Gandini in less than a year

OShowed on March 1966

Oaggressively styled, and an appropriate

name was chosen for it

LP400 Countach

• in 1973 at the Geneva Auto Show

•difficult to realize the impact that car had on everybody at that time

• vertically mounted rear air intakes to go with its powerful 4 Liter engine

Disaster

• In 1974

• A massive order for tractors to a south

American country was cancelled

• series of labor problems at the factory

• sell part of his share in the factory to Fiat

• During the seventies Lamborghini

eventually sold all his remaining stock in

the company to a Swiss investor

• Ferruccio Lamborghini died in February 1993

at the age of almost 76

• oil crisis of the 70's

• People gave up waiting for cars with two year

back orders

• In 1978 the company declared bankruptcy

• An Italian court was appointed to find a buyer

• A Swiss based group called the Mimran

brother's were able to save the factory

• Patrick Mimran

• Chrysler Corporation \ support

• Diablo

• in 1994 bought by an Indonesian

investment group headed by Tommy

Suharto

• economical crisis

• research on a the Diablo started to dry up

On August 4 1998 Audi had an interest in Lamborghini

became the sole owner of AutomobiliLamborghini

Audi took an active role in designing the Murcielago

Gallardo

Reventon

THE LAST OWNERSHIP

CHANGE

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