Ferruccio Lamborghini - Developer Of The Fantastic Car

Ferruccio Lamborghini is italian car manufacturer. He was born in in Italy in 1916. He was interested in the engines since childhood. While serving in the army, he mended broken cars, trucks or motorcycles. Thus he became known as the master wizard at mechanical improvisation.

After military service he returned home and went to work in car repair shop. He soon realized that there is an urgent need for tractors in the agricultural area in which he lived. He understood that he could build about one tractor a month from an abandoned military equipment.

With the growth of Italy's economy, the demand for his high quality tractors started to grow. He began building his own tractor engines. His business became very successful reaching a rate of over 400 a month in 1960.

Soon, he looked at the expansion of business and in 1960 began manufacturing air conditioners for buildings, as well as supporting the tractor business. This case has also become very successful. Around this time Lamborghini started getting interested in developing a high performance car. He had owned Oscas, Maseratis and Ferraris but was always disappointed with them. Particularly their engines.

Lamborghini decided too build his own car with a V12 engine. For the design he found a very talented engineer named Giampaolo Dallara who had previously worked on a Ferrari V12 engine. This new engine had 4 cams, a short stroke and 4 big bore valves per cylinder. It developed a surprising 350 HP. It was an all aluminum engine with a crankshaft supported by seven bearings.

First car Lamborghini "350 GTV" was presented on the Turin Auto Show of 1963. This car is truly ahead of his time. It was shocked even companies like Ferrari and Maserati.

In 1973 at the Geneva Auto Show when Lamborghini shocked the world again with its revolutionary LP400 Countach. The machine at the show was bright red and with a black suede interior.

After the crisis, was released a new car Lamborghini Diablo. The new car got rave reviews everywhere it went. However in another twist of faith, in 1994 Chrysler fell upon hard times and had to sell the company. It was bought by an Indonesian investment group headed by Tommy Suharto of the well known Suharto family.

However, after this the company fell on hard times again. But, on August 4 1998, in a complex series of transactions Audi AG became the sole owner of Automobili Lamborghini. Audi took an active role in designing the Murcielago and brought to the table again the vast resources of automobile company to create and produce another exotic car.