Visual History of the Lamborghini | 64 Pics

Around the 60 Ferruccio Lamborghini was considered one of the most prosperous industry in Italy. After the Second World War in which took part in the maintenance of its fleet of cars drive regiment just decided to buy these vehicles with care and kept in order to convert tractors thus unexpectedly successful.

With the money he made through these sales went to several car brand Ferrari, who really did not work as he wanted, mechanical problems of any kind impossible to enjoy a complete them. Tired of their investments in cars that break easily are called the great Enzo Ferrari to complain about “the garbage that it was their cars.” Which obviously did not fall into wrong with Enzo who answered “A tractor manufacturer know nothing about cars.” By way of “revenge” Ferruccio Lamborghini went to give birth and to build a car that can be sentenced and put fear in the mythological Ferrari.

It argues that only this fight was not unexpected but a spark for the idea that Ferruccio had in mind for some time, given their lifetime (including children) by the automotive category. For his work was refined in Bologna, trying to really be able to compete with the brand that had reigned in the years of cars in postwar Italy. All these disputes and no chance of their relationship with cars or any type of vehicle mechanics led to the idea of Ferruccio soon became reality and specificity in the automotive business.

Tractors, great starting point.

Without doubt, the benefit to the birndaron ‘Lamborghini Tractors’ was his big break and great point. So shortly after he had begun with the sale and manufacture of such places is nothing a generous sized workshop in the town of Cento. There progresaría continue and further the production of their tractors. The clock is ticking and the expansion of Ferruccio becomes a fact, not only tractors but also became beneficial heaters and air conditioners that provided in their new models. But not everything went as he liked to Ferruccio Lamborghini, is wanted in a short time to devote to the production of their other passions, the helicopters, but these dreams are completely wiped out when he was denied a government grant that would enable it to carry out this project.

At the same time it denied the construction of helicopters comes the unexpected confrontation with Ferrari, which does not leave waste time on regret but it launches the other big car project. Dated 1963 in which a first small factory in Santa Agata (only 25KM from Bologna) you would give birth to her first car Lamborghini 350 GTV, who would later start a stage of progress in creating his heir with the 350GT of which 120 units were produced.

The idea of Lamborghini in design was strongly influenced by Maranello, the car always had this personal touch more violent and “exaggerated” in terms of curvatures. Preferred not to create large batches of small cars, but production units and in terms of launch times, its mode of production was launched at the time the successors of the models created in this way will be refined and re-launched new models constantly . For example, the Lamborghini Miura in all its versions is a good example, or the Lamborghini Islero Islero and S.

Already with the first Lamborghini car launched on the market began to honor the shield of the firm producing cars or Miura Espada, very close to this. The manufacture of Lamborghini was found with a constant rate between the years 1963 and 1972.

Phase problems

Unfortunately for Ferruccio problems quickly reach because of the great energy crisis and the major safety requirements regarding the approval on the market, added to an agitation that would result from the association of absolute zero over 5000 tractors and then be constructed and brought losses in terms of their liquidity. For this reason, the bad news apesumbrado by Ferruccio Lamborghini decided in 1972 to sell 51% stake in the mill to George-Henri Rossetti, the second owner of the firm. Later, dissociate completely from the automotive manufacturing, selling its remaining 49% to a friend and majority owner of the firm, René Leimen.

After these major changes would begin a phase in which the company walk the tightrope, because the new owners were not more than investors who are not exactly worried by a comprehensive maintenance of the company, but began to fall behind with payments to suppliers, and irregularities were placed in bankruptcy in the Lamborghini brand.

Then start again the period of prosperity and light for the signing to the purchase in 1998 of the Volkswagen group of companies who would also be in the hands of Audi, and Seat. These three brands are able to be today one of the most important sporting sagas of all time.

As a clear example of progress, the first car that created this great union is the Lamborghini Murcielago, a car completely out of this world, admired for any fan of sports cars, his name was taken from a copy of the livestock that Miura was pardoned in 1879.

Finally in 2002, with 424 sold in the street, Lamborghini once again change the red numbers on balance far more positive and augur a prosperous progress.

Today, Lamborghini is a sign of prestige cars in each launch or reelanzamiento (how to keep re-launch of modified models, such as the Murciélago model since 2001 hasata 2006).

This is how to win, luck, and an ideal experience in the automotive category. Ferruccio Lamborghini allowed the unthinkable, the dream of every fan.