The Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini (28th April 1916-20th February 1993) who was the founder of the company that deliver his name and is known for stylish, high-performance and super cars, was born in Italy. He was born to a family of grape farmers makes it all the more impressive that he grew up to become known as an engineering genius whose name today, as it was during his life, is synonymous with speed, style, wealth, and the exotic cars carrying his name.
The story goes he ran into some trouble with his Ferrari and wanted to confront Enzo with his issues that meeting didn’t go down smoothly and Ferruccio decided to start building his own cars. He bought a large section of land in the industrial part of Sant’Agata and had a brand new factory built to his specifications so he could build the best GT cars in the world which world had ever seen and so the history of Automobili Lamborghini SpA started in 1966. At the age of 47 Ferruccio entered the automotive arena.
The first production car to leave the gates in Sant’Agata was the Lamborghini 350 GT, a very nice two seater GT with a large V12 engine in the front. That car was years ahead of anything the competition offered back in 1964, but the car that really made the Lamborghini name known in the entire automotive world was the beautiful lambo muira which released in 1966 and the milestones just kept coming from Automobili Lamborghini SpA.
The Lamborghini Countach was kept in production for almost 20 years before the Diablo would take over the reign as the V12 flagship from Sant’Agata, by that time Automobili Lamborghini SpA was owned by Chrysler. Ferruccio was given the opportunity to drive the new Diablo in the early Nineties before he passed away on February 20, 1993 two months before he would turn 77.
The rest is history, and he would have been 104 years old now. Happy Birthday Ferruccio Lamborghini and thank you for creating the supercar industry.
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