This was the life of Ferruccio Lamborghini
Posted on 28-04-2016 at 12:37 by shjdejee – 30 Comments”
The best man of today would be his hundredth birthday celebration.
Unfortunately, it has not come so far, because Ferruccio died in 1993 at the age of 76. He was born on 28 april 1916 in a peasant family. The peasant life of his parents was the ambitious Ferruccio and he moved to Bologna. Here he went to the Industrial design study, something that he found interesting.
Tractors
Ferruccio carried out during the war a lot of maintenance work on army vehicles. When after the war he returned to his birthplace, he noticed that here a large demand for tractors. Ferruccio was not only technically, but also had ondernemersbloed. Before he knew it, he had, at age 33, a factory with his last name on the top of the building. Within a few years he was even the largest tractor manufacturer of Italy. For this success he has in Italy, the title “Cavaliere del Lavaro”, and he is with us on the Wall of Fame come.
Lamborghini supercars
Ferruccio had a weakness for cars and his business success was possible, a nice collection to build. Here were, among others, a Morgan, a Jaguar, but Ferruccio also has multiple versions of Ferrari’s 250GT possessed. He had regular problems with it. The link was continuous piece. In addition, the Ferrari’s noisy and they had a poorly built interior, says Ferruccio. He, he went into the conversation with Enzo Ferrari. Ferruccio had with his eye for technique quite a few comments and remarks, but Enzo Ferrari replied like a true Italian. Ferruccio would be nothing of cars know and had to be especially tractors continue to build.
He did, but he went there sports cars next build. He hired Giotto Bizzarinni for the design of a powerful V12, which was built in the tractor operation. The nice thing is that Bizzarinni to do this at Ferrari and worked, where he was the engine for the Ferrari 250 GTO, designed. Also chose Ferruccio is a remarkable place for the Lamborghini factory in Sant’agata Bolognese. This is just a few kilometres from the Ferrari factory in Modena is coming from. The first two models of the brand were the 350GT and 400GT. But something was missing: the quality of Ferrari to overshadow and preferably all the way to bruise. It was therefore that Ferruccio Lamborghini to agree with the Miura, although his heart is actually in GT’s lag. More about that in this article. Then came models like the Countach, Urraco and Espada. That was in the sixties and seventies, in which a large number of attractive models to compete with Ferrari and Maserati makes a lot of sense. In the eighties, embroidered, one still based on these models, and from 1990 they had only one model, the Diablo. His successor was in 2001 at the IAA with the beautiful name Murciélago and permanent all-wheel drive.
The rest is history and this is a story that a movie is worth. Oh wait, that is there too!
Ferruccio Lamborghini will in any case not soon be forgotten, because farmers enjoy every day of his tractors and car enthusiasts drooling still at the sight of one of his supercars. Fortunately, the car manufacturer, its founder, on this important day also not forget. Recently, they presented the Centenario, a special model in honor of Ferruccio. With z’n all of a minute revven today.