Lamborghini

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Image:Lamborghinilogo.jpg Image:Lamborghini Gallardo silver.jpg Image:Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster 2005.JPG Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly known as Lamborghini, is a manufacturer of high performance sports cars based in the small Italian village of Sant'Agata Bolognese, near Bologna. The company was founded in 1963 by Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916–1993) as a spin-off from his very successful tractor factory, Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A..

Ferruccio Lamborghini was an enthusiastic owner of sports cars, including a Ferrari. There are several versions of why Lamborghini started his company, all of them involving a conflict between himself and Enzo Ferrari. The most likely version, one that has been corroborated several times, is that Ferruccio Lamborghini met Enzo Ferrari at a party, and, naturally, the talk drifted to sports cars. Lamborghini pointed out a few things in Ferrari's designs which he did not agree with. Ferrari, a notorious hothead, got apoplectic. "If you don't like the way I build my cars, why don't you go build one in that tractor factory of yours."

Featuring bodies designed by Franco Scaglione, Touring of Milan, Zagato, Mario Marazzi, Bertone, ItalDesign, Marcello Gandini and Luc Donckerwolke, Lamborghini's cars are amongst the most expensive, and also most powerful, road-going vehicles made. As Ferruccio himself was a bullfighting aficionado (not to mention a Taurus), almost all models have a name somehow related to bullfighting.

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Models

Lamborghini's products include the 350GTV (1963), 350GT (1964), 400GT 2+2 (1966), Miura (1966), Espada (1968), Jarama (1970), Countach (1974), Silhouette (1976), Jalpa (1981), Diablo (1990) and the Murciélago (2001) as well as the Lamborghini LM002 (1986) off-road vehicle of which Road and Track magazine said, "With the 5.2 litre V-12, the LM002 can pass anything on the road—except a gas station".

The current (2005) range consists of the Murciélago, the Murciélago Roadster and the smaller, cheaper Gallardo. All are very fast, mid-engined 2-seaters with four-wheel-drive as standard. The styling is largely the work of Belgian designer Luc Donckerwolke.

Model List

Vehicle Year Engine Displacement
350GT1964-1968Lamborghini V123464 cc
400GT1964-1968Lamborghini V123929 cc
Miura1966-1973Lamborghini V123929 cc
Espada1968-1978Lamborghini V123929 cc
Islero1968-1970Lamborghini V123929 cc
Jarama1970-1978Lamborghini V123929 cc
Urraco1970-1979Lamborghini V82463 cc/2996 cc/1994 cc
Countach1974-1989Lamborghini V123929 cc/4754 cc/5167 cc
Silhouette1976-1977Lamborghini V82996 cc
Jalpa1982-1989Lamborghini V83485 cc
LM0021986-1992Lamborghini V125167 cc
Diablo1990-2000Lamborghini V125707 cc
Murciélago2002-PresentLamborghini V126192 cc
Gallardo2003-PresentLamborghini V104961 cc

Ownership

Lamborghini has had a number of owners, as shown in this simplified list:

Foreign operations

Automovil Lamborghini de Latin America was set up by a Jorge Antonio Fernandez Garcia in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1994, It is officially licensed to produce two handbuilt variants of the Diablo called the Eros and the Coatl. They were first produced in 2001 and are available only in Latin America since 2003.

See also: List of Italian companies

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