Lamborghini History

Exactly 100 years ago to this date Ferruccio Elio Arturo Lamborghini was born, on April 28 1916 in a family of farmers, but Ferruccio wanted to do something with mechanics instead … after World War II he started building tractors. First from surplus material left after the war, but soon he founded his own company to build…

Ferruccio Lamborghini was a self-made millionaire, he made fortune by building tractors from army surplus left behind by the Allied Forces back in 1945 when World War II came to an end. He started this business from a small garage but soon was able to move to larger buildings because demand for his very powerful…

When Automobili Lamborghini SpA became the property of Audi AG back in 1998, the latter has invested a massive amount of money in upgrading the original Lamborghini factory from the early Sixties into the modern building it has become nowadays. There have been multiple modifications to the assembly lines, a brand new one has been…

The late Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Automobili Lamborghini SpA back in 1963, in a matter of years he made his new car company an household name in the automotive world with the legendary Miura, the most innovative car on the market, succeeded by the space age Countach and later on the famous Diablo … sadly by the time…

The Tonino Lamborghini museum, a tribute to a timeless work of art. After Ferruccio Lamborghini passed away in 1993, his son Tonino wanted to keep his fathers legacy alive for the future … he managed to build the Centro Studi e Ricerche Ferruccio Lamborghini as a tribute. At that time Automobili Lamborghini SpA was no longer owned…

I have had the good fortune to be able to visit the official Museo Lamborghini a few times over the years, and each time is an experience once again … even if I have to travel a very long time to get to Sant’Agata I take every opportunity I can get to go to the…

if you’ve ever been able to visit the official factory museum right on the doorstep of Automobili Lamborghini SpA in Sant’Agata Bologna, Italy I’m sure you’ve seen the impressive orange metallic Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 hanging from the far wall on the first floor. Many years ago the earlier Diablo VT 6.0 version took center stage at this position…

Nowadays, most of us know Lamborghini as the Italian automotive marque that makes blisteringly fast cars. But there is a lot more to Automobili Lamborghini and its founder Ferruccio Lamborghini than what comes to light. Ferruccio actually made tractors before he ventured into the business of manufacturing sportscars. The Italian had a love for machines…

The Lamborghini factory had never entered any kind of racing, the only Lamborghini’s that ever showed up on the track were private entries, but when the Mimran’s arrived, things changed. Note that the late Ferruccio Lamborghini actually had two four-liters V-12’s installed in his personal Riva Aquarama back in 1969, so Patrick Mimran decided to…