2. 1. Early life
2. Notes
3. Automobile Lamborghini
4. Retirement
5. Death
6. Lamborghinis fascination with bullfighting
7. Legacy
3. Introduction
> born on April 28, 1916.
> studied at the fratelli taddia technical institute.
> In 1940, he served as a mechanic in
Italian Royal Air Force.
> At the end of the world war in 1945, he
was not able to return to home.
4. 1.1 After world war II
- He opened a garage in Pieve di Cento.
> he modified an old Flat Topolino.
- He made a homely city car into a roaring 750-cc
open-top two-seater.
- He entered a car in Mille Miqlia in 1948 but he lost
5. 1.2 Beginnings of entrepreneurship
- His business in the region of Emilia-Romagna.
1.3 Involvement with boats
- The iconic Riva Aquaria Lamborghini was
registered and delivered on 7 June 1968 by ferruccio
Lamborghini.
- It was the first & only one fitted with tow
Lamborghini engines.
- In 1988, he sell the boat to his close friend Angelo
Merli.
6. 1.4 Involvement with automobiles
- He owned a cars during the early 9050s, and at one
point, had enough cars to use different one every day of the
week.
In 1958, Lamborghini travelled to maranello to bye a Ferrari
250-GT.
7. - Lamborghini thought Ferraris car is good, but too
noisy and rough to be proper road cars.
- Period Ferraris had Spartan interiors, lacking the
plush appointments Lamborghini felt were essential to
a gran truism car.
8. - Sources do not agree on Ferruccio Lamborghini's area
of study. Joliffe and Willard state that Lamborghini studied
engineering, but did not obtain a degree due to his military
service obligations.
- In a 1991 Thoroughbred & Classic Cars interview,
Lamborghini said that after the clutch problems <with his
Ferrari> continued to go unresolved, "I decided to talk to Enzo
Ferrari. I had to wait for him a very long time. 'Ferrari, your cars
are rubbish!' I complained. Il Commendatore was furious.
'Lamborghini, you may be able to drive a tractor but you will
never be able to handle a Ferrari properly.' This was the point
when I finally decided to make a perfect car."
9. Departure from automobile Lamborghini
A Lamborghini R 754, produced a few years after
Lamborghini had sold Tractor to SAME
10. In 1974, Lamborghini exited the industrial world and retired to
an 740-acre (3.0 km2)estate named "La Fiorina" on the shores
of Lake Trasimeno.
11. At 76 years of age, on February 20, 1993, Lamborghini died at
Silvestrini Hospital in Perugia after suffering a heart
attack fifteen days earlier.
12. - The world of bullfighting is a key part of
Lamborghini's identity..
13. - All of Ferruccio Lamborghini's companies continue to
operate today in one form or another. His son, Tenino, designs
a collection of clothing and accessories under the Tenino
Lamborghini brand, as well as designing the Town Life, an
electric microcar which was revealed at the Bologna Motor
Show in 1999. Ferruccio's daughter, Patrizia Lamborghini,
runs the Lamborghini winery on his Umbria estate. In 1995
Ferruccio's son Tenino opened a museum that honors
Lamborghini's legacy, the Centro Study e Recherch辿 Ferruccio
Lamborghini.