World Machine

The story that owes its fame Lamborghini Enzo Ferrari, with each year acquires new details. According to the most popular version, was the owner of the car Ferruccio Ferrari, who gave him a lot of hassle. By complaining to Enzo Ferrari in the quality of adhesion, and seeing that he was absolutely not interested in their cars, angry Ferruccio Lamborghini decided to create the fastest car in the world-class GT. For this purpose he surrounded his best engineers and turned to the most famous designers. Lamborghini 350GT was the first to design Scaglione, exhibited at the Turin Motor Show in 1963. This car is an original coupe with four Independent wheels, became a sensation. Since its appearance under the sign of Taurus brand began to gain popularity. By creating a Countach, Ferruccio Lamborghini realized his dream of the world’s fastest car.

Thereafter Ferruccio began to gradually move away from business, became interested in wine and sold his shares of Swiss investors. With the arrival of new owners, Bob Wallace and Paolo Stantsani, two of the best engineer company, left her, and the plant began conflicts. Demand for Espada and Jarama plummeted. This put the company on the verge of bankruptcy. From the collapse of the saved her … Countach! Giampaolo Dallara, an engineer who worked on fine-tuning Miura, returned to the Lamborghini, so deal with model number Countach. Lamborghini pull out of the financial divide have failed, and in 1978 the Italian government was forced to help the company to keep the brand Lamborghini disappear.

The final salvation came only with the new owner. The Swiss company had Mimran Lamborghini and economic recovery gave new impetus to production Countach, starting in 1985 version Quattrovalvole, which exceeded the speed, power and torque the new weapon Ferrari – Testarossa. V1989, the head of Chrysler Lee Iacocca drove to Countach and was so impressed that he decided to buy not only the car itself, but also the brand. His last years living out Countach under the American flag, and engineers began to develop his successor, Lamborghini Diablo, one of the latest flagship brands of the company. A few years later there is another masterpiece of Italian home: Lamborghini Murcielago, the successor to Diablo, designed to compete with the Ferrari F60, Bugatti EB 16-4, Volkswagen W12, and Porsche GT2. The latest brainchild of compa-nies became Gallardo. Lamborghini could not stay away from the hit the automotive world in 1992 general crisis and was forced to diversify production, going into other areas (public electric transport, marine engines). But despite all the efforts over the plant in Sant Agata Bolognese again threatened bankruptcy.