Lamborghini
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- Lamborghini History: Beginning in 1963, by Ferruccio Lamborghini, the Lamborghini company began to take root. Initially starting a tractor company, he gained the needed money to kick start his company. This became known as the “Automobile Ferruccio Lamborghini,” based on and founded in Sant’Agata Bolognese.
- Since the early years of his company, Ferruccio had a desire to compete with Ferrari’s sports cars. His first model was the 350 GTV, as seen in the Turin Auto Show, followed by the Marzal in 1967, which was the first to have gullwing car doors.
- In 1971, the Ip 500 AKA was released, becoming the new template for future car model designs. A year proceeding this, however, labor unions began to be his worst nightmare, and became overwhelmed by the social situation. He seemed to have no choice but to give away over half of his company to a Swiss industrialist, Georges-Henri Rossetti. What was left of the Automobile Ferruccio Lamborghini company was given to René Leimer, a dear friend of Ferruccio.
- Ferruccio Lamborghini was no longer a part of the company in any way. in 1973, the model the Countach was beginning it’s production, however, an oil crisis had sprung up by the Arab-Israeli War. Based on how the Countach was designed, the amount of fuel needed did not match up with the crisis further east.
- The world began to believe that sports cars, such as the 1973 model, were a luxury that only depleted the earth’s natural resources. Sports cars were now deemed socially unacceptable.
- Due to this, in 1980, the whole company was near bankruptcy and was prepared to be liquidated, but in the next year, the Mimran brothers joined in, with Emil Novaro as their lead engineer.
- Through the next few years, the Lamborghini company began to be thrown about from company to company, beginning in 1987, when the US Chrysler company took over, then sold to unknown Indonesian investors.
- Finally, in 1988, the company was handed off to the Audi company.
- The Lamborghini model designs are relatively all similar in nature. All of the models have a thin hood, with a slightly boxed off nose. once the gullwings were created, they had stuck with some of the more recent models. the lamborghini logo is of a golden bull, veering to the right, a shield-like design shown behind it.
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“Lamborghini,” European Auto Industry, accessed May 18, 2024, https://gai.omeka.net/items/show/7.