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Ferruccio Lamborghini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian: [ferˈruttʃo lamborˈɡiːni]; 28 April 1916 – 20 February 1993) was an Italian automobile designer, soldier, inventor, mechanic, engineer, winemaker, industrialist, and businessman who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and the Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.
Ferruccio Lamborghini with a Jarama and a tractor of his brand. Manufacturing magnate Italian Ferruccio Lamborghini founded the company in 1963 with the objective of producing a refined grand touring car to compete with offerings from established marques such as Ferrari. The company's first models, such as the 350 GT, were released in the mid ...
Ferruccio Lamborghini began courting buyers for Automobili; he entered negotiations with Georges-Henri Rossetti, a wealthy Swiss businessman and friend of Ferruccio's, as well as the owner of an Islero and an Espada. [29] Ferruccio sold Rossetti 51% of the company for US$600,000, thereby relinquishing control of the automaker he had founded.
Ferruccio Lamborghini was dissatisfied with several design features of the 350 GTV, [5] and with the state of tune of the engine. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] He commissioned Carrozzeria Touring to redesign the car to be more practical [ 5 ] and had the engine detuned to 270 bhp (201 kW; 274 PS) at 6,500 rpm for use in the production car.
The development of the Countach was initiated by Ferruccio Lamborghini with the goal of creating a successor to the Miura.The Miura was widely acclaimed after its introduction in 1966, but by 1970 new competitors including the Ferrari Daytona had been introduced to the market, and the Miura was showing its age.
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Museo Ferruccio Lamborghini is an Italian museum in Argelato, a few kilometres from the centre of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, focused on the life and work of Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the Lamborghini sports car marque.
For all their differences, the sports car and SUV still shared the same stonking V-12.