Lamborghini

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Automobili Lamborghini Holding SpA [ ˌ ni ː lamborgi ] (debate? / I ) is an Italian automobile manufacturer which produces in small batches since 1964 sports car. The company is based in Sant'Agata Bolognese, between Bologna and Modena. The company logo shows a fighting bull. Since 1998 the company belongs as part of the Audi AG, Volkswagen Group. The original tractor Lamborghini brand belongs since 1971 to Same Deutz-Fahr.

• 2.1 Models
• 2.2 Prototypes and single pieces 2.2.1 sports cars and coupes
• 2.2.2 off-roaders and SUVs

• 4.1 Vector M12/M12 GT2
• 4.2 Automóviles Lamborghini Latinoamérica S. A.
• 4.3 ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
• 4.4 BMW

History

Tractor Brand

1948, the company in Cento, Ferrara was founded in Italy by Ferruccio Lamborghini ( 1916-1993 ) as a manufacturing operation at that time much needed tractors. So after the Second World War useless military vehicles were converted to tractors and sold. In 1959 the production of burners and air conditioning has been extended.

Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari

In 1962, Ferruccio Lamborghini, the company Automobili Lamborghini as a brand symbol he chose Murciélago, the legendary bull who survived a bullfight with 24 lance shocks on 5 October in 1879 and was pardoned then, as a symbol of strength; Also the bull was his zodiac sign. Starting this year, starting with the development of sports cars.

The decision fell to a widespread legend, after an altercation between the sports car lovers Ferruccio Lamborghini and Enzo Ferrari. Lamborghini had frequent problems with his Ferrari and complained to company president Enzo Ferrari. This rebuffed him with the remark that Lamborghini could only drive tractors correct and that no sports car. Therefore, Lamborghini, his opponent decided to prove them wrong by building a faster sports cars. According to other sources, Enzo Ferrari is said to have refused to build or to receive Ferruccio Lamborghini to an interview a sports car after Lamborghini's ideas. The veracity of these stories is, however, often doubted. Other representations assume that Ferruccio Lamborghini Enzo Ferrari has never met in person, and the sports car production resumed primarily to advertise his tractor operation.

Twelve-cylinder sports car

1963 was presented with the Lamborghini 350 GTV, the first prototype of a Lamborghini sports car. The vehicle was not in this version in series. Both the motor and the body have been modified before the beginning of the mass production. 1964, created the first copies of the model 350 GT. The output of the twelve cylinder surpassed the contemporary Ferrari models significantly. Great deal of interest Lamborghini but only with the 1966 featured Miura, which - depending on the source - with its 385 hp approached in the most powerful version of the 300-km/h-Marke. Since the Miura all models bear the names of famous Spanish fighting bull breeds or individual fighting bulls, hence the newer four-wheel drive Murciélago and the Gallardo. There were the sports cars only three exceptions - the Countach, the silhouette and the Espada. After the Countach had been completed, there was no suitable Taurus name to rename it. According to legend, now you put the car in the factory yard and called the staff together. One of the employees called at the sight of the car " Countach " ( in German: " thunder " ), and thus the car had its name. The silhouette highlighted with its differing from the fighting bull tradition model name on the formula silhouette, a discharged 1976-1980 Group 5 Championship FIA for series-production sports car; the Espada was named after the rapier of the matador. The additional designation " LP", which is included on many models in its name stands for longitudinal posterior ( = "rear longitudinal" ) and refers to the orientation of the longitudinally mounted engine.

The Countach was the first Lamborghini scissor doors, a design which was characteristic of other models.

Economic crisis and change of ownership

At the beginning of the 1970s broadened the Lamborghini model range. The four-seat Espada and the 2 2- seater Jarama were among the most expensive Italian sports car. At the same time, the company to open up with smaller and more affordable eight-cylinder models like the Urraco, which was intended to compete with the Porsche 911, new customers tried. This plan failed. The Urraco, Lamborghini in its development had invested a lot of money, could not settle in the planned quantities. Therefore, and due to the oil crisis, the company ran into financial difficulties in 1972. The tractor part Ferruccio Lamborghini sold in the Same Group (now Same Deutz- Fahr). The sports car segment changed since the 1970s, several owners: From 1972 to 1977, the Swiss businessman Georges- Henri Rossetti and René Leimer were ( 1972-1977 ) farmer. After a period of insolvency Patrick Mimran took over the company (1980 to 1987). He took the Urraco (now Jalpa ) back into production on and put the sensational SUV LM002 ago, which was based on a development contract for the U.S. Army. 1987 bought by the American major auto manufacturer Chrysler sports car manufacturer. In this era, which lasted until 1994, also falls a Formula 1 involvement Lamborghinis. From 1994 to 1998 Lamborghini belonged to the Indonesian MegaTech Group.

Lamborghini and Audi

In 1998, the Volkswagen Group subsidiary Audi AG, the company that owns today. Since then, Lamborghini once again offering a wider range of models and shows again a large number of studies and small series vehicles. With approximately three million euro costing small series sports car Lamborghini Veneno presented at the Geneva Motor Show 2013, the currently most expensive street-legal production car in the world. The model name comes from - the old Lamborghini tradition accordingly - by a Spanish fighting bull named Veneno, the bullfighter José Sánchez Rodríguez killed in 1914 during a bullfight in the arena of Sanlúcar de Barrameda.

In September 2000, in addition, the Volkswagen Group Italia SpA was 100% integrated in the holding company.

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Models

The current model range includes two basic models: the Gallardo as entry-level and the Aventador as a top model. In addition, the Gallardo is also offered as a convertible, making a wider range of customers to be addressed.

Prototypes and small pieces

In addition to the standard models, there were also quite a number of prototypes and individual pieces.

Sports cars and coupes

• Lamborghini 350 GTV ( 1963 Turin Motor Show, designed by Franco Scaglione )
• 3500 GTZ Zagato (1965, London Motor Show, Zagato )
• 350 GTS (1965, Paris Salon, Touring )
• 400 GTS ( 1966 Touring )
• Monza 400 (1966, by Neri e Bonacini )
• Flying Star II (1966, by Carrozzeria Touring)
• P400 Stuardi Sonata (1966, Enzo Stuardi )
• Marzal ( 1967 Turin Motor Show, Bertone )
• Miura Roadster (1968, Bertone )
• Jota (1970 )
• Miura SVJ ( after 1971, Lamborghini and external coachbuilders )
• Jarama Sport ( 1972)
• Bravo ( 1974 Turin Auto Show )
• Urraco Bob (1974 )
• Miura SVR (1974 )
• Faena ( 1978 Turin Auto Show, by Frua )
• Athon ( 1980 Turin Motor Show, Bertone )
• Marco Polo (1982, Bologna Motor Show, Italdesign Giugiaro of )
• Countach Turbo S (1984, Franz Albert tuning)
• Countach Evoluzione (1986 )
• Portofino ( 1987 IAA Frankfurt)
• Genesis ( 1988 Turin Auto Show, Bertone )
• P140 (1987 /1993 by Marcello Gandini and Luigi Marmiroli )
• Cala (1995, Geneva Motor Show, Italdesign Giugiaro of )
• Zagato Raptor (1996, Geneva Motor Show, Zagato )
• Canto (1997, Zagato )
• Heuliez Pregunta (1998, Paris Motor Show )
• Concept S ( 2005 Geneva Auto Show )
• Miura Concept ( 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show )
• Estoque Concept ( 2008 Paris Motor Show )
• Sesto Elemento (2010, Paris Motor Show )
• Aventador J ( 2012 Geneva Auto Show )
• Egoista (2013, Grande Giro Lamborghini )

Off-roaders and SUVs

• Cheetah ( 1977 Geneva Auto Show )
• LM001 ( 1981 Geneva Auto Show, SUV)
• LM002 ( 1982 Geneva Auto Show )
• LM003 (SUV 1983)
• LM004 (SUV 1984 study of marine engine )
• LM005 Lagartijo (SUV )
• Urus (SUV )

Lamborghini in Formula 1

Between 1987 and 1993 Lamborghini was represented as a competitor of Ferrari in Formula 1. The operation was carried out by Lamborghini Engineering, a subsidiary company in Modena, which was largely run by the former Ferrari employee Mauro Forghieri. Lamborghini Engineering was essentially as an engine supplier for other teams operate; you sat next to in the season 1991 also has its own chassis, which has been reported under the name Modena Team of the Formula 1 World Championship. Other customers BMS Scuderia Italia team were, Larrousse, Ligier, Lotus and Minardi.

Cooperation with other manufacturers

Vector M12/M12 GT2

For the Indonesian company MegaTech Ltd.. , The Lamborghini between 1994 and 1998 belonged, included the Vector Aeromotive Corporation, where 1995 Vector M12 developed, but for whom we did not want to use the Chevrolet engine of the predecessor W8. As both companies were now united under one roof, the engine and the Brembo braking system of the Diablo were fitted as standard in the new 1996 presented Vector. The M12 was rebuilt as a race version M12 GT2 from Team ASR (American Spirit of Racing) in 1998 and successfully used with the Diablo motor in three races before it was used as a development vehicle for another Vector prototype.

Automóviles Lamborghini Latinoamérica S. A.

The car Móviles Lamborghini Latinoamérica S. A. is a foreign company, the various usage and production rights in the area of ​​brand name " Lamborghini " and the vehicle production of vehicles of Automobili Lamborghini Holding S. p. A. has. Cars offered by this company are:

• Lamborghini Coatl (since 1994, based on the Diablo )
• Lamborghini Eros GT-1 (since 1996, based on the Diablo )
• Lamborghini Alar 777 (Study, launched in 2007, based on the Diablo and divided stylistically to his predecessor)

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Lamborghini is in cooperation with ASUSTeK Computer Inc., the high-priced VX and ZX- phone and laptop models out. The notebooks stand out by using high quality materials and numerous Lamborghini insignia of the rest of the model range.

BMW

1976 was decided by the Bavarian car manufacturer BMW, his then designed by Paul Bracq supercar, the BMW M1, to develop the work of Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese. But Lamborghini took care of rather poorly to the project and used the funds invested by BMW rather for the realization of the Lamborghini LM002. BMW was the M1 then by its own subsidiary BMW Motorsport GmbH develop to an end.

Others

From the 1960s to 2008 Lamborghini Orange County was the world's largest Lamborghini dealer.

Since 1971 Lamborghini builds the high performance engines for offshore racing boats. These aggregates - per boat two pieces - make approximately 735 kW.

Since 2005, Lamborghini brings the Lamborghini magazine on the market.

In addition to the work there for some years now a museum.