Engine Details
The surprising thing about Lamborghini is the company started making cars after Signore Lamborghini complained to Enzo Ferrari about a worn-out clutch disc, and Il Commendatore Ferrari insulted him. It’s a true story. Lamborghini had purchased a Ferrari to drive, and when the clutch disc wore out, he discovered it was the exact same part he used on farm tractors. Allegedly, Ferrari told Lamborghini to his face he was just a tractor driver and a farmer, and he shouldn’t presume to criticize. Lamborghini responded by vowing to build a better sports car than Ferrari. The rest, as they say, is history.
Chasis and Suspension
Within a few years of the Ferrari incident, Lamborghini had produced its first automobile. This was the exceptionally beautiful and elegant 350GT of 1964. This car used superleggera (ultra-lightweight) aluminum bodywork, a lightweight tube-steel space frame, and a Bizzarini overhead cam 3.5-liter V12 engine. It also features a 4-wheel independent suspension with coil-over dampers. For a modern comparison, think Miata handling with V12 power and a top speed of 158 MPH.
Interior
The Lamborghini 350GT was instantly one of the best-loved Italian sport coupes of the mid-1960s. Luxury buyers now had another choice, and Lamborghini’s home in Sant’Agata Bolognese was not that far from Maranello. Suddenly, Ferrari had serious competition in the Grand Touring segment. Just 118 examples of the Lamborghini 350GT were produced, and today they sell for about $600,000. Another 23 examples of the similar 400GT with a 4.0-liter V12 were produced through 1968. (1) (1)https://www.autotrader.com/oversteer/history-of-lamborghini
Exterior
The Lamborghini company became the Lamborghini we know today—an iconoclastic builder of futuristic fantasy cars—with the introduction of the Miura at the Geneva International Motor Show in 1966. The Miura is rightly called the world’s first supercar because it established the mold for those that followed by locating the vehicle’s sonorous 350-horsepower 4.0-liter V-12 behind the cockpit rather than ahead of the windshield. Today, the Miura lives on as the Aventador— Lamborghini’s flagship mid-engine V-12 supercar. The lineage from the Miura to its successor models, the Countach, Diablo, Murciélago, and Aventador, is unbroken. (2) (2)https://www.maxim.com/rides/lamborghini-history-2017-4/
