10 Fact About Lamborghini

Lamborghini – The eye candy of the car lovers and my favorite one as well. Superb aerodynamic design, fast cornering, great speed, a perfect combination of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. :D


Gallardo, Murciélago, Aventador, Reventon and all other sport cars from Lamborghini all have been a favorite of  super car lovers. So, why not know some interesting facts about the awesome car company. Here are some listed below.

1. Lamborghini is named after the founder of the company Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916-1993). Ferruccio Lamborghini founded the company in 1963 when he was 47 years old. The factory is located in a small Italian village called Sant’Agata Bolognese near Bologna, Italy.
2. Ferruccio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer before he got interested in sports cars. His interest in sports cars made him buy many different high-performance cars including both Maserati and Ferrari, but he was never really happy with any of them and therefore decided to built his own, perfect sports car.
   
3. Lamborghini used to be an independent company, but today it is a subsidiary of the German company Audi AG. Audi AG became the owner of Lamborghini in 1998. Lamborghini went bankrupt in 1978 and was sold to Chrysler a long time before Audi AGbecame the sole owner of the company.
4. The fastest Lamborghini is the Le Mans version of the Murciélago R-GT model. It has been reported to have a top speed of 370 km/h. The fastest street model from Lamborghini is the Murciélago LP640 with an top speed of 340 km/h. Both of the models have a V12 engine.
5. No Lamborghini have ever been produced with less than a V8 engine. Most of the Lamborghini models throughout the history of the company have come with the legendary Lamborghini V12 engine, but the newest model, Gallardo, only have a V10 engine. No Lamborghini models with a V8 engine have been since production of the Silhouette stopped in 1989.
6. The first Lamborghini was the 350 GTV in 1963. It was extremely fast for its time with a top speed of 280 km/h. In 1964 a smaller version of the 350GTV appeared. The smaller version was called 350 GT and had a top speed of 240 km/h. The Countach from 1974 was the first Lamborghini to go faster than 300 km/h.
7. In 1975, Walter Wolf - a rich Canadian businessman and F1 racing team owner, persuade Lamborghini to produce three super powered Countach models. The Wolf Countach had the same engine as the orginal Countach prototype and were able to reach a top speed of 315 km/h.
8. In 2007, Lamborghini sold over 2,580 cars which is the highest amount of cars they have ever sold in a year.
9. The most expensive Lamborghini ever sold was the Lamborghini Reventon, for $1,600,000.
10. The most successful model of Lamborghini is the original Lamborghini Gallardo.