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Lamborghini
Ferruccio Lamborghini
was an enthusiastic owner of sports cars,
including a Ferrari. There are several versions
of why Lamborghini started his own company,
all of them involving a conflict between himself
and Enzo Ferrari. The most likely version,
one that has been corroborated several times,
is that Ferruccio Lamborghini met Enzo Ferrari
at a party, and, naturally, the talk drifted
to sports cars. Lamborghini pointed out a
few things in Ferrari's designs which he did
not agree with. Ferrari, a notorious hothead,
got apoplectic and issued the question/challenge:
"If you don't like the way I build my
cars, why don't you go build one in that tractor
factory of yours?"
Featuring bodies designed
by Franco Scaglione, Touring of Milan, Zagato,
Mario Marazzi, Bertone, ItalDesign, Marcello
Gandini and Luc Donckerwolke, Lamborghini's
cars are not only amongst the most expensive
and powerful road-going vehicles made, but
are also considered by many to be amongst
the most stunning and impressive in appearance.
Contrary to a frequent misunderstanding, Ferruccio
himself never was a bullfighting supporter
but loved bulls and was a Taurus, which explains
why most models have a name somehow related
to bulls.
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