A Brief Biography on Ferruccio Lamborghini

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In 1945 a 47 year old man from a small Italian village called Sant’ Agata Bologese was named Ferruccio Lamborghini. Ferruccio Lamborghini started making tractors from leftover army parts from the Allied Forces(wordpress.com). Little did Ferruccio Lamborghini know that he would later create a multimillion dollar supercar company, one of the best know manufactures to this day. Lamborghini is one of the most powerful successful car manufactures this world has ever seen. Amazingly enough Ferruccio Lamborghini started his company from his small garage, but after making a lot of money was able to move into a much larger building(wordpress.com). Once he moved into a larger building he started to take on more things to build, such as oil burners and air conditioning systems(wordpress.com).

While he started to make these things all at once he soon found out that he can be extremely successful in both things that he manufactured. Before anyone could guess Ferruccio Lamborghini was one of the wealthiest men in Italy. Ferruccio being so wealthy was able to afford just about anything that he wanted(wordpress.com). Ferruccio had started to buy cars such as the Mercedes SL300, Ferrari, and a Jaguar which were all very desirable cars at the time and still today(wordpress.com). When Ferruccio was driving his Ferrari he experienced many clutch and shifting problems. Ferruccio went to a local Ferrari shop but they were unable to find a problem with it, as any car owner would he was furious because he knew something was wrong. Ferruccio was so furious that he decided to confront the owner of the company Ferrari himself. Ferruccio confronted Mr. Enzo Ferrari and told him his problem and his situation and Mr. Ferrari who was known for his arrogance ...

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...you count to 3 you can just imagine the Aventador is already going over 60 miles per hour. Obviously this is all going to come at a hefty price. The Aventador carries a starting price of $379,700 so it is basically impossible for an everyday person to afford one(exoticcarsabout.com). The Aventadors price may be hefty but it is a much better buy than the Reventon.

Lamborghini makes a lot of money selling such expensive cars but they have a few other ways of doing it. Lamborghini also runs their own museum and factory tours. For a tour of the meuseum by yourself with no tour guides costs approximately $13 dollars in American money. A factory tour is guided by a tour guide and costs you approximately $45.00 in American money which is a steal for what you get to look at but you are required to have 15-20 in your group and you also have to fly out to Italy where it is.

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