Bitrh of Lamborghini

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lamborghini and a very well known sports car in the world is basically an italian company and located at Sant'Agata Bolognese, near Bologna.Some of the newer models of Lambo are Countach, the Diablo, the Gallardo and the Murcielago.
The founder of the company Mr.Ferruccio Lamborghini, a successful owner of a tractor company named Lamborghini Trattori, founded Lamborghini Company in 1963 at the age of 47. He was very fond of sports car and that made him purchased many high performance cars like Maseratis and Ferraris, but the strange thing was he was not at all satisfied with those. Ferruccio Lamborghini's priorities changed when he went to meet Mr.Enzo Ferrari (Founder of Ferrari) at the Ferrari factory in Maranello, to complain about the quality of the clutch in his Ferrari 250, but unfortunately Ferrucio got very bad response and the answer was "The problem is not with the car but with the driver", and they suggested Mr. Ferrucio that look after his tractors and leave the sports car to others. That made Lamborghini very dudgeon. He came back to his factory and after dismounting transmission system of Ferrari he found that it was using very same transmission system which were used by Lamborghini for his own tractors. Lamborghini called Giotto Bizzarrini, Gian Paolo Dallara, Franco Scaglione and Bob Wallace and the result of their work was GTV prototype. The following year, Lamborghini would debut the 350GT followed by 400GT. Profits of that gave ample capital to company to launch its first sports car i.e. The Lamborghini Miura and the chassis of that was launched by Feruccio himself in Turin Auto Show in 1965 and the car was displayed at 1966 Geneva Auto Show. The name was taken by famed fighting-bull trainer, Don Eduardo Miura. One hundred and eleven Miuras were sold in 1967. Seven hundred and sixty-one were made in total. The Miura propelled the company into the small world of exotic car manufacturers. In 1971, Lamborghini produced the LP500 Countach prototype. The production LP400 Countach was introduced three years later. The prototype was the first car to sport Lamborghini's now-traditional scissor doors, along with vertically mounted rear air intakes. The Countach's V12 engine initially had the same 4-litre capacity as the Miura, but this was enlarged to five litres upon the introduction of the LP500S Countach in 1982.

Major Setback for the company
Lamborghini suffered major setback in 1972 when a large tractor order was cancelled. Financial complications forced Ferruccio to sell part of his share of the tractor factory to Fiat. The tractor business was eventually acquired by SAME (now Same Deutz-Fahr). Lamborghini tractors are still sold today, as part of the SAME Deutz-Fahr Group. Because of 1970s oil crisis reduced the sale of sports cars and Lambo went bankrupted and Swiss based Mimran brothers won the auction and took over the company in 1984 but the company remain solvent under Mimran's control. In a surprise move, the company was bought by the Chrysler in 1987. Lamborghini was then working on the Countach's successor, the Diablo. But in 1994 poor economic crisis and politics at Chrysler forced them to sell Lambo to megatech, an Indonesian investment group. Under the new management, Lamborghini began a renaissance in the world markets. The Lamborghini Diablo SV (Sport Veloce) was launched in 1995. Inspired by the Lamborghini Miura SV, the Diablo SV featured a more powerful 525bhp V12 engine featuring variable cam timing technology (MMEC) developed by Lamborghini. The Diablo SV became the best selling version of the Diablo. Megatech also sold the company because of the circumstances in Indonesia. Lamborghini was bought by Audi AG, who had gained interest in the Italian company after being one of several major manufacturers approached as possible technical suppliers for major components for future Lamborghini models.
The current (2009) range consists of the Murciélago LP640, the Murciélago LP640 Roadster and the smaller, less expensive Gallardo LP560/4 and Gallardo LP560/4 Spyder, after production of the Gallardo Superleggera ceased earlier this year. All are high-powered, mid-engined 2-seaters. The Murciélago LP640, the Murciélago LP640 Roadster and the Gallardo LP560-4 come with Lamborghini's standard four-wheel drive systems. Their styling is largely the work of Belgian designer Luc Donckerwolke.

List of lucky owners of Lamborghini:

• Ferruccio Lamborghini : 1963–1972
• Georges-Henri Rossetti and René Leimer : 1972–1977
• Bankrupt : 1977–1984
• Managed by Patrick Mimran : 1980–1984
• Patrick Mimran : 1984–1987
• Chrysler Corporation : 1987–1994
• Megatech : 1994–1995 (Permission granted for the creation of Automóviles Lamborghini Latinoamérica)
• V'Power, Mycom : 1995–1998
• Audi AG : 1998-present