FERRUCCIO LAMBORGHINI

Ferruccio Lamborghini was born, to viticulturists Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini, region of Northern Italy. According to his baptismal certificate, Ferruccio was baptized as a Roman Catholic four days later, on May 2.From his early days he was interested in machines, how did they work and always wanted o know he technical terms and processes and the concepts behind them.  As a young man, Lamborghini was drawn more to farming machinery rather than the farming lifestyle itself. Following his interest in mechanics, Lamborghini studied at the Frat Elli Taddia technical institute near Bologna. In 1940 he was drafted into the Italian Royal Air Force where he served as a mechanic on the island of Rhodes. Lamborghini was taken as prisoner when the island fell to the British at the end of the war in 1945, and was not able to return home until the next year. He married happily, but his wife died in 1947 while giving birth to his first child Tonino.Due to his interest in mechanics he started buying old scrap tractors and repairing them and reselling them at profit. After the war agriculture was a big need and hence his business boosted up. He started his own company and his tractor company became one of the largest agricultural equipment manufacturers in Italy, so Ferruccio Lamborghini could afford himself dozens of luxury cars such as a Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and Alfa Romeo. He also decided to purchase several Ferrari and this is where the success story of the Lamborghini begins and started to evolve to one of the most successful luxury car manufacturers in the world.When Ferruccio Lamborghini was born, to viticulturists Antonio and Evelina Lamborghini, region of Northern Italy. According to his baptismal certificate, Ferruccio was baptized as a Roman Catholic four days later, on May 2.From his early days he was interested in machines, how did they work and always wanted o know he technical terms and processes and the concepts behind them.
 As a young man, Lamborghini was drawn more to farming machinery rather than the farming lifestyle itself. Following his interest in mechanics, Lamborghini studied at the Frat Elli Taddia technical institute near Bologna. In 1940 he was drafted into the Italian Royal Air Force where he served as a mechanic on the island of Rhodes. Lamborghini was taken as prisoner when the island fell to the British at the end of the war in 1945, and was not able to return home until the next year. He married happily, but his wife died in 1947 while giving birth to his first child Tonino.Due to his interest in mechanics he started buying old scrap tractors and repairing them and reselling them at profit. After the war agriculture was a big need and hence his business boosted up. He started his own company and his tractor company became one of the largest agricultural equipment manufacturers in Italy, so Ferruccio Lamborghini could afford himself dozens of luxury cars such as a Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, and Alfa Romeo. He also decided to purchase several Ferraris and this is where the success story of the Lamborghini begins and started to evolve to one of the most successful luxury car manufacturers in the world.When Ferruccio Lamborghini bought a brand new Ferrari he expected a much well responsive track car than a regular road car, as the Ferrari was too noisy and rough to handle. Lamborghini was fond of the Ferrari but was not completely satisfied with it, so he decided to make several suggestions to Enzo Ferrari (founder of Ferrari) including design changes that could help him to improve his luxurious Ferraris. Bur as reported Enzo didn’t like the way of Lamborghini and felt disrespected on being told the flaws in his world famous car company, he yelled at Lamborghini and made several insulting statements to him which broke down Lamborghini and hurt him a lot. He decided to take revenge by moving his company to a new sector…which was sports car.In 1964 Lamborghini manufactured the first versions of the Lamborghini 350 GT, which exceeded the performance of a Ferrari considerably. Since 1966 all Lamborghini´s were named after famous Spanish bull-fight breeding, such as Murciélago and Gallardo, with the only exception of the Lamborghini Countach. The name Countach was chosen after an employee said out loud “countach” when he first saw the car, which is a local dialect expression in the Italian language for “amazing” or “stunning”.Ferruccio Lamborghini has shown us how incredible successful you can become in life and what kind of a myths you can establish only by facing a problem in his daily life, a vision that evolved out of this problem and a competitor that truly spurred Lamborghini. Lamborghini faced the problem that his Ferraris were much more repurposed track cars than (what Lamborghini hoped they were) regular road cars. At first, he started to approach this problem by making Ferrari suggestions how he could improve his sports cars, but after Ferraris negative feedback he developed his very own vision. The vision to create the perfect sports car that is not a repurposed track car, but a normal road car. This mixture of ambition and encouragement has allowed Ferruccio Lamborghini to found the Lamborghini brand, which manufactures sports cars from the 60´s up to the present day.
Lamborghini bought a brand new Ferrari he expected a much well responsive track car than a regular road car, as the Ferrari was too noisy and rough to handle. Lamborghini was fond of the Ferrari but was not completely satisfied with it, so he decided to make several suggestions to Enzo Ferrari (founder of Ferrari) including design changes that could help him to improve his luxurious Ferrari. Bur as reported Enzo didn’t like the way of Lamborghini and felt disrespected on being told the flaws in his world famous car company, he yelled at Lamborghini and made several insulting statements to him which broke down Lamborghini and hurt him a lot. He decided to take revenge by moving his company to a new sector…which was sports car.In 1964 Lamborghini manufactured the first versions of the Lamborghini 350 GT, which exceeded the performance of a Ferrari considerably. Since 1966 all Lamborghini´s were named after famous Spanish bull-fight breeding, such as Murciélago and Gallardo, with the only exception of the Lamborghini Countach. The name Countach was chosen after an employee said out loud “countach” when he first saw the car, which is a local dialect expression in the Italian language for “amazing” or “stunning”.Ferruccio Lamborghini has shown us how incredible successful you can become in life and what kind of a myths you can establish only by facing a problem in his daily life, a vision that evolved out of this problem and a competitor that truly spurred Lamborghini. Lamborghini faced the problem that his Ferraris were much more repurposed track cars than (what Lamborghini hoped they were) regular road cars. At first, he started to approach this problem by making Ferrari suggestions how he could improve his sports cars, but after Ferraris negative feedback he developed his very own vision. The vision to create the perfect sports car that is not a repurposed track car, but a normal road car. This mixture of ambition and encouragement has allowed Ferruccio Lamborghini to found the Lamborghini brand, which manufactures sports cars from the 60´s up to the present day.