The Emotive Italian -The Ferruccio Lamborghini Story
Story of Italian Industrialist-Ferruccio Lamborghini, from building Tractors to building Supercars that have been donning our bedroom walls.
Adversaries are know to bring the best out of a person. The most fitting example of this statement has to be the story of Ferruccio Lamborghini, or even better, the existence of the company which holds itself guilty of donning our bedroom walls, Lamborghini.
It all started in the year 1963, when manufacturing magnate and entrepreneur decided to treat himself to a Ferrari 250GT. On owning the Ferrari, Ferruccio Lamborghini found the clutch on the car to be quite troublesome. He called for a meeting with Enzo Ferrari to offer his suggestion on bettering the clutch design. The fact of being advised by a tractor maker on how to better his car didn’t sit too well with Enzo Ferrari. He hastily put Ferruccio Lamborghini in his place by sending him away and advising him to stick to building his tractors and leave the sophisticated process of designing cars to more qualified people like himself.
A dejected and outraged Ferruccio decided to challenge Enzo Ferrari and build his very own sports car, which would be much better than the Ferrari. He hired a few engineers from his tractor company and formed his sports car team. The first Lamborghini sports car to be produced was the 350GT in 1964, which sported the conventional 60’s styling. It wasn’t the 350GT that put Lamborghini in the limelight it was rather the Miura, which was showcased in the 1966 Geneva convention. The Miura is known as the world’s first supercar, it sported a then revolutionary 350 horsepower, 4.0 litre V12 engine. The V12 engine was as much a performer as acoustic masterpiece. The other revolutionary aspect of the Miura was the fact that it had its engine located behind the driver’s cockpit, which would go on to be the defining factor of supercars to come. In fact so revolutionary was this layout that even Formula 1 shifted their engines behind the driver’s cockpit as compared to previously having it in front of the windshield.
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