This Day in History: Ferruccio Lamborghini died on this day in 1993. Lamborghini was an Italian automobile designer, inventor, mechanic, engineer, winemaker, industrialist and businessman who created in 1963, Automobili Lamborghini, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.
Although Lamborghini is now associated with luxury cars, the company originally made tractors. Ferruccio Lamborghini was fascinated by cars and owned cars such as Alfa Romeos and Lancias during the early 1950s and at one point he had enough cars to use a different one every day of the week, adding a Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a Jaguar E-Type coupé, and two Maserati 3500 GTs.
Eventually he owned a Ferrari but felt that it had an inferior clutch, and complained of Ferrari's after sales service. Lamborghini went to Enzo Ferrari about this, but "Enzo had a fiery temper and his response was that Ferrucchio should concentrate on tractors rather than concern himself with the workings of sports cars. As legend has it, Lamborghini took this as a personal challenge and decided to create his own sports car." Source
Lamborghini's are quite expensive.
The Lamborghini Urus is $211,321
The Lamborghini Huracan Evo is $264,969
The Lamborghini Huracan Evo Spyder is $291,095
The Lamborghini Huracan Evo RWD is $212,266
The Lamborghini Huracan Evo RWD Spyder is $233,123
The Lamborghini Aventador S is $421,350
The Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster is $460,427
The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ is $521,465
The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster is $577,661.
The Veneno Roadster is the most expensive Lamborghini in the world, valued at a whopping $8.3 million.
Although it has retained its own name, Lamborghini is now owned by the Volkswagen Group.
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