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Ferruccio Lamborghini

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Ferruccio Lamborghini

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Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)

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Ferruccio Lamborghini was an Italian industrialist who founded Automobili Lamborghini, a luxury sports car manufacturer that became one of the world's most prestigious automakers. Born in 1916 and dying in 1993, his company shaped the high-performance automobile industry and remains an iconic symbol of Italian engineering and design.

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  • A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon.
  • One day in Modena I was entering a restaurant when I recognized Ferrari sitting at one of the tables. As I passed I tried to greet him, but he turned his head away and pretended to be talking to the person next to him. He was ignoring me! I used to have contact with Adolfo and Omer Orsi of Maserati, Renzo Rivolta of ISO, even Alejandro de Tomaso. But Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

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Key facts

Born
( 1916-04-28 ) 28 April 1916, Cento , Kingdom of Italy
Died
20 February 1993 (1993-02-20) (aged 76), Perugia , Italy
Other name
Ferruccio Lamborghini I
Alma mater
Istituto Fratelli Taddia
Occupations
Mechanic winemaker industrialist entrepreneur
Known for
Founding Lamborghini
Spouses
Clelia Monti ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1946 ; died 1947 ) ​ Annita Borgatti ​ ( divorced ) ​ Maria Teresa Cane
Children
Tonino Patrizia
Relatives
Elettra Lamborghini (granddaughter) Ferruccio Lamborghini II (grandson)

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Encyclopedic overview

Ferruccio Lamborghini Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (/ˌlæmbərˈɡiːni/ LAM-bər-GHEE-nee, Italian: [ferˈruttʃo lamborˈɡiːni]; 28 April 1916 – 20 February 1993) was an Italian automobile designer and industrialist who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.

Born to grape farmers in Renazzo, within the municipality of Cento in the Emilia-Romagna region, his mechanical know-how led him to enter the business of tractor manufacturing in 1948, when he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy's post-WWII economic boom. In 1959, he opened an oil burner factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing air conditioning equipment.

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