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       Lamborghini: Never Insult a Tractor Tycoon

        Earlier in Behind the Business, we looked at the way an Italian blacksmith took over the world by car. Like many inventors, Enzo Ferrari was a man who was demanding, proud, and ambitious. It is precisely this blazing mix of personality traits that ultimately led to the creation of the Ferrari’s biggest competition and the Behind the Business article theme week - Lamborghini. As in Enzo Ferrari, the story of Lamborghinionce takes us to the northern Italian province of Emilia-Romagna to the quiet township of Renazzo di Cento. It was there that poor grape farmer Antonioand Evelina Lamborghini raised their son Ferruccio among the family vineyards. Young Ferruccio was born a Taurus, yet you will see why it is important after a while. Most importantly, he was born in 1916, smackdab in the middle of World War I. Despite this, Ferruccio grew up to be optimistic and ambitious, but like many poor Italians in the early 20th century he faced one important problem.

                He may cling to traditional activities as a farmer or he may try to stay ahead of the curve and be at risk of losing his factory and industrial career. For Ferruccio, however, the choice was clear: he loved mechanics and it was hard to stay away from his father's garage. This eventually led to his studying mechanics and in 1935 he felt confident enough to start his own business. Five years later, however, Ferruccio found himself separated from his civilian life as a result of World War II. He was drafted by the Royal Italian Air Forcein in 1940 and assigned to work as a mechanic in a camp on the Greek island of Rhodes. During his career, Ferruccio gained valuable experience by removing and replacing old equipment. In 1943, however, after the Italian surrender, the German occupation occupied the room and chased away its former allies. Ferruccio could have left, but he decided to stay as a civilian and with the German permission began to use his workplace. As much as the Germans were fond of Lamborghini'stechnical, 1945 came and went with Allied troops.

              They took everyone who was incarcerated, but after seeing what Ferruccio could do they made him work repairing their cars for a whole year until they finally sent him home in 1946. On his return to Italy, Ferruccio opened another temporary workshop, but soon after being struck by a good idea. His experience with both Allied and Axis cars has given him a stronger edge than other machines. Did he know that postwar Italy would need to increase its agricultural production in order to repair war wounds, and where is it better to have the equipment to do so than in the huge stockpiles of military equipment Mussolini's government had sent? Ferruccio's prominence program began in late 1947 when he founded his first company. With another mechanic and 2,000lira in the first capital, Ferruccio has taken large-scale production of inexpensive tractors in his hands. His main supplier was ARAR, a state-owned company responsible for selling all the military equipment that had survived the war. By replacing the old British Morris engine with cheap diesel fuel, Ferruccio developed an inexpensive tractor that could sell anywhere in Italy.

             This would be the first of his ‘Carioca’tractors’, which was unveiled on February 3, 1948 and Italy passed over them. The design was so successful that Ferrucci started a second company, Lamborghini Trattori. He hired four new workers, bought a factory in Cento and borrowed 10 million liras backed by his family's vineyards to buy hundreds of Morris, Perkins and Dodge engines from ARAR. She has also decided to join the prestigious endurancerace called Mille Miglia. He drove the Fiat Topolino for a fee, but crashed into the side of the restaurant and left the race for the rest of his life. Apart from this, his company was doing well in 1950, Trattori had 30 employees and could produce more than 200 tractors a year. Demand was growing rapidly, so in 1951, Ferruccio acquired 1,000 m2 of land to build a new factory. In 1951 the L33tractor was also introduced, his reputation for benefiting from government subsidies for home-grown farmers. After signing a contract with Motornwerken Mannhe in their diesel engines, Lamborghini could now make its own tractors completely. Ferruccio's new factory produced its first tractor in 1956 and by that time he had reduced his engine design to about three horsepower. Ferruccio also traveled through Atlanticto to purchase heat and air cooling technology from the US. In the early 1960's, the Lamborghini tractor had 400 workers who produced as many as 30 tractors a day.

            One of their major developments at the time was a series of air-cooled tractor engines and the concept of helicopters, though the government did not approve. In 1961 Ferruccio introduced a separate oil ration called this time he was so rich that he decided to indulge in his sports cars. As a learned mechanic himself, Ferrucciow was highly critical of any engineering errors he encountered in any of his vehicles. Among them were two Alfa Romeos, two Maseratis, a Jaguar E, a Mercedes Benz, and several Ferraris. Ferraris appealed to Ferruccio in particular, but found them unnecessarily noisy and thought they had a stone-free interior. He was particularly furious with the special Ferraris for keeping them afloat. After falling ill due to all repair costs, Ferruccio took the troubled car straight to Modena, where he met Enzo Ferrari directly about the clutches. According to Ferrucio, Enzo actually chased him away and told him to stick to the driving tractors.

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             That comes as no surprise from a man who fired many of his top employees when they complained about his wife, but Ferrucciosaw sees it as a challenge. He was well aware of the profits he would make from the gran turismo industry, so in 1963, a tractor driver set up a car park near Sant'Agata. So, out of a desire to start showing Evin the middle finger, Ferruccio created the Automobili Lamborghini. By brand, he chose a bull: after all it was his star sign and he also had a deep interest in fighting bulls.This awesome creature has proven to be a fitting symbol of the Lamborghini company as it charged important categories next year. The first working Lamborghini, the GT 350, was created in 1964 with the help of young engineer Paolo Stanzani. It features extremely intriguing technologies, including a V12 engine, five-speed transmission, four-wheeled disc brakes, and four-wheel-drive autonomous suspension. Building the GT 350 was not easy and its prototypes were plagued by bad design errors that were more pronounced during its 1963 car show in Turin.

           The most notable case was that the engine itself could not fit inside the car's body panels. Ferruccio's solution was to fill the room with bricks and to keep the door closed at all times. After all the show was about looking at cars, not driving them. In the end, the GT 350 was a technician and gained popularity among critics and customers alike. In 1966 they brought 400 GT and Miura P400. Miura was most notable for establishing a rear-engine design in the middle of the Engine as the standard for all the most efficient cars of this era, a standard still in use today. Originally developed as a racing-carvehicle by a team of brave engineers led by Marcello Gandini.They kept this job a secret from Ferruccio, as he had been opposed to building race cars over his race in 1948. When Ferruccio heard of the new project, he was pleased enough not to remove it, but he doubled his policy. In 1968 Espada established itself as one of the oldest categories of Lamborghini and Islero 400 GT. The company continued its successful line-up, launching popular models such as the Countach LP500, Urraco P250, and Jarama 400GTS. The 1970s, however, were going to be tough times for Lamborghini. In 1973, two years after the completion of the Bretton Woods program, the global stock market suffered a major crash, with Dow erasing almost half of its value. At the same time, OAPEC began to block oil, which greatly increased the price of fuel and put the automobile industry in jeopardy.           

           As if all of that was not enough, LamborghiniTrattori was also injured when an agreement to supply Bolivia with 5,000 tractors was terminated after the 1971 coup by Hugo Banzer. Ferruccio did his best to keep his various companies alive: He eventually found buyers from non-profit retailers and relocated his oil heating plant to Dosso, Nigeria. Eventually he was forced to sell shares in Lamborghini to foreign investors in order to save his business from collapse. The crisis broke Ferruccio, and although he was able to save Lamborghini, he retired despite widespread strikes in Italy. In 1973 he sold the Trattori business to an Italian tractor manufacturer.

          A year later he sold his automobili Lamborghini the remaining 49% to a Swiss businessman: René Leimer. René's friend had previously bought 51% and together they hoped to revive the product. Despite their best efforts, they failed and Automiliili Lamborghini was forced to be eliminated. In 1980, the Italian government sold Lamborghinifor for $ 3 million to our brothers in Mimran, two French businessmen who owned large-scale sugarcane plants and flour mills in Africa. The brothers were determined to seek to renovate all the Lamborghini buildings and to assemble a new team of engineers, but they quickly came to terms with the budget and eventually sold the company. In 1987 Lamborghini fell into the hands of Chrysler, who wanted to import luxury car products into the United States. Less than 5 years later, however, Lamborghinistill did not respond to profits, so Chrysler sold it to the Indonesian mix. Indonesians were able to repatriate the product and in 1996 Lamborghini made a modest profit of $ 120,000. As luck would have it, in 1998 the financial crisis hit Asia and the Lamborghini were resold. This time, the buyer was Ferdinand Piëchof Volkswagen, who had bought with Bentley and Bugatti the same year.

          Under the care of Volkswagen's father, Lamborgh found its structure very well organized. This allowed it to finally begin to take the place of a return to the luxury sports market. In order to meet the challenges of the 21st century Lamborghini was aggressively marketing its brand name, while at the same time investing heavily in research and development. They have split their cars to apply for a wider budget, even though their lower prices are still more expensive for middle-aged Joe. The landmark of today's successful Lamborghiniis is undoubtedly the Gallardo, which, during its decade of production, sold more than 14,000 units, thus becoming the most famous Lamborghini design! The year 2015 marked the best year in the company's history, as their sales increased from just over two and a half thousand cars to more than three thousand. They are already producing more complex items such as the Urus SUV or Huracan concept, which followed Gallardo. So far it seems the Lamborghini hot potato game has come to an end, at least for now. It is safe to say, however, that if Ferrucciocould see his company now, he would be delighted to find that Lamborghini once again played the red flag on Ferrari's bull.

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