RadioProfile | Ferruccio Lamborghini died on February 20, 1993.

The Italian manufacturer left an extraordinary legacy in the history of sports cars and tractors. Born on a family farm outside of Bologna in Italy, Lamborghini abandoned creating the company in order to create competition for Enzo Ferrari.

It all started after World War II, when a man bought a Ferrari sports car, in which he discovered that there were clutch components that were the same as the ones he used in his tractors. In addition to that, his Ferrari was having some faults.

For reasons like these, we decided to visit Enzo Ferrari to tell him about the problems he was having with his car; no change to get some solution so built a better sports car than Ferrari. He enrolled in an industrial college near Bologna, where he studied machinery. He managed to graduate just before World War II, then assigned as an engineer in the Italian Air Force.

After the war he returned to his farm and began assembling tractors from remnants of war vehicles, he built high-quality tractors that by the mid-1950s, the Lamborghini Tractor Company, had become one of the largest manufacturers of tractors. Farm equipment from Italy. In 1963 he built an ultra-modern factory and hired Alfa Romeo’s distinguished designer, Giotti Bizzarini. Together they set out to create the best car. As a sports car manufacturer, Ferruccio Lamborghini was unique in his work.

While other sports car manufacturers sought to demonstrate the speed, confidence and technical superiority of their cars by participating in racing engines, Lamborghini stated that its company would not participate in or support racing engines. This was in direct contrast to the policy of Ferrari, where the main purpose of their production cars was to generate revenue to finance their participation in racing.

Lamborghini’s politics caused tension between him and his former Ferrari engineers, who supported Ferrari in racing. Several of them began to develop a car with a rear-axle engine and the potential of a racing engine. Lamborghini discovered the project at the prototype stage, eventually allowing them to go ahead with the project, but insisting that there be no racing version built, this project was the Lamborghini Miura.

The company’s symbol, a bull, was taken from the zodiac sign of its creator, Taurus. In addition, Lamborghini was passionate about the Spanish bullfighting festival. Ferruccio Lamborghini died in Perugia at the age of 76, due to heart and respiratory problems.

On February 20, 1993, Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian car manufacturer, died.

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