1966–1973
Lamborghini Miura: The Tractor Man's Answer to Ferrari
Ferruccio Lamborghini did not start out trying to humiliate Enzo Ferrari. He started out building tractors. After wartime service and salvage work with surplus military engines, Lamborghini built a successful business, Lamborghini Trattori, founded in 1948, manufacturing farm tractors and later boilers and air…
6 generations · 22 sourced facts · 21 sources
1974–1990
Lamborghini Countach: The Wedge That Redrew the Poster
By the early 1970s Lamborghini had already answered the question of what a mid-engined V12 supercar could look like with the Miura, and the company's engineers and its design partner at Bertone immediately faced the harder question of what should come next once a shape that startling existed. Chief engineer Paolo…
7 generations · 25 sourced facts · 21 sources
1990–present
From Diablo to Revuelto: Lamborghini's Long Road to a Hybrid V12
When Lamborghini needed a successor to the Countach at the end of the 1980s, it was a company in the middle of a turbulent ownership history rather than the confident young marque that had built the Miura. Ferruccio Lamborghini had sold his remaining stake in the 1970s, and by the time the new flagship was ready, the…
1 generations · 35 sourced facts · 27 sources