Ferruccio Lamborghini Biography

Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini was a manufacturer of tractors and sports cars, founder of the Lamborghini brand. He was born on April 28, 1916, in Cento, a small province of Ferrara, Italy. He was recognized as a wealthy person and an excellent manufacturer of tractors, heating unit systems and air conditioners.

The Italian manufacturer decided to create the Lamborghini company, with the aim of generating competition for Enzo Ferrari. It all started after the Second World War when a man acquired a Ferrari sports car, in which he observed that there were clutch components that were the same as those he used on his tractors. In addition to that, his Ferrari was presented with some flaws. For reasons like these, he decided to visit Enzo Ferrari to tell him about the problems he was presented with his car; he could not get any solution, so he decided to build a better sports car than Ferrari. That man was Ferruccio Lamborghini.

To fulfill his objective, in May 1963 Ferruccio founded the company “Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini” and hired former Ferrari engineers Gianpaolo Dallara and Robert Wallace to design and develop his cars. The first car that was manufactured in the company was the Lamborghini 350 GT, which was far superior in terms of the defects that Ferruccio had found in the Ferrari and was presented at the Car Fair in Turin in that same year.

The year 1967 arrived, and all of the specialized media turned to admire the Miura, the prototype that catapulted the brand to a very high level of success. His name is due to a Spanish bull-fighting livestock since the founder of Lamborghini was passionate about bullfighting and hence the brand’s logo. Besides to having all his cars have names of these animals.

In 1972, he made major investments to improve the production capacity of his factory, in order to comply with a massive order that had been made from South America. Sometime later, Lamborghini was informed that the order was canceled, so the Italian was forced to sell a part of his company to recover some of the money invested. In that same year, Georges-Henri Rossetti joined the company. In 1973, Ferruccio Lamborghini

sold the part of the company that still had to René Leimer, to go live in a vineyard that had bought years ago and engage in agricultural work.

As a manufacturer of sports cars, Ferruccio Lamborghini was unique in his work. While other sports car manufacturers focused on demonstrating the speed, reliability, and technical superiority of their cars for participation in racing engines, Lamborghini established that their company would not participate or support the racing engines.

Ferruccio Lamborghini died in Perugia, Italy on February 20, 1993, at the age of 76, because of heart and respiratory problems.