Sports Car Facts

Lamborghini

3 model families in the catalog.

1966–1973

Miura

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…

1974–1990

Countach

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…

1990–present

Diablo through Revuelto

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…