Lamborghini History

Lamborghini History - Ferrucio stands in front of the truck 

Lamborghini History - Ferruccio Lamborghini was born in Italy in 1916. He was fascinated with engines from an early age. During World War II he joined the army and was stationed on the island of Rhodes. Fortunately there was little going on there during the war.  The island was essentially isolated from the rest of the world. Any cars, trucks or motorcycles that broke down had to be repaired on the spot with reused parts.  Lamborghini became known as a wizard at mechanical improvisation and became very much in demand at fixing engines.

After the war he returned to his home near Modena in northern Italy and setup a small car and motorcycle repair shop.  He soon realized that there was a desperate need for tractors in the agricultural area in which he lived. He found he could build about one tractor a month from derelict military vehicles. As Italy's economy grew demand for his high quality tractors started to grow. He began building his own tractor engines. His tractor business became very successful reaching a rate of over 400 a month in 1960. He soon looked at expanding the business and in 1960 began manufacturing heaters and air conditioning units for buildings as well as maintaining the tractor business. This too became very successful. 

About this time Lamborghini started to get interested in developing a high performance car. He had owned Oscas, Maseratis and Ferraris but was always disappointed with them.  Particularly their engines. There is a now famous story about how he was frustrated with problems he had with a clutch in a Ferrari (a Ferrari 250 GT), and went to visit Enzo Ferrari who's factory was nearby. Enzo had no time for a tractor manufacture and simply dismissed him. Lamborghini decided there was nothing Ferrari was doing he could not do better. He decided too build his own car with a V12 engine.  For the design he found a very talented engineer named Giampaolo Dallara who had previously worked on a Ferrari V12 engine. 

The new engine had 4 cams, a short stroke and 4 big bore valves per cylinder.  It developed a surprising 350 HP. It was an all aluminum engine with a crankshaft supported by seven main bearings. These crankshafts were machined from SAE 9840 steel.  The connecting rods (12) were of SAE 4340 steel. The pistons were of forged aluminum. Each pair of camshafts were driven by their own half engine speed sprocket and silent chain.  This engine was really the prototype for all future Lamborghini engines. A body designed by Scaglione-Touring was used to house the engine.

Lamborghini History - The 350 GT

The Lamborghini "350 GTV" prototype was shown to the public on the Turin Auto Show of 1963. Sales started the following year. The car was called the 350 GT. It was a complete success.  Over 130 were sold.The future of Automobili Lamborghini looked very bright during the sixties. The 350 GT was succeeded by the 400 GT and then the  400 GT 2+2.  The 350 GT and 400 GT 2+2 made the Lamborghini name known throughout the world. With the funds coming in from these cars and his successful tractor business Ferruccio allowed his engineers to design and construction a new car - the Lamborghini Miura. The Miura made the Lamborghini name legendary. It was a car truly ahead of its time. It shocked even companies like Ferrari and Maserati.

The Miura was first shown on November 1965 at the Turin Auto Show by Ferruccio Lamborghini himself. Only the chassis was shown at the show, the engine was transversely mid-mounted, something up to then only seen in real F1 race cars. The design of the body was executed by Marcello Gandini in less than a year, and on the March 1966 Geneva Show it was completed and on display. It looked even better than in Turin. The car was very aggressively styled, and an appropriate name was chosen for it, the Miura, a name taken from the ferocious Spanish fighting bulls.  Again the car was a complete success.

This was followed in 1973 at the Geneva Auto Show when Lamborghini shocked the world again with his revolutionary LP400 Countach. Only a prototype was shown. Today it is difficult to realize the impact that car had on everybody at that time. Even now the car is a show stopper! The car at the show was painted in a bright red and with a black suede interior. It showed for the first time, the by now, famous, Lamborghini signature swing up doors. It also displayed unique vertically mounted rear air intakes to go with its powerful 4 Liter engine.

In 1974 disaster struck.  The Lamborghini tractor business received a major setback. A massive order for tractors to a south American country was cancelled. Lamborghini anticipating the demand, had previously upgraded the tractor factory to be able to build the numbers of tractors required. The company lost a lot of money over it. Compounding things also at this time was a series of labor problems at the factory. While his personal fortune was still considerable he decided to sell part of his share in the factory. Eventually the factory was taken over by Fiat.

During the seventies the company survived on sales of Miura's. The car business started to be self sufficient and make money.  However Lamborghini eventually sold all his remaining stock in the company to a Swiss investor.  The company to this day still retains his name however.  Ferruccio Lamborghini died in February 1993 at the age of almost 76

The oil crisis of the 70's started to made sales of high performance cars difficult.  Production art the factory was plagued with budget and parts supply problems.  People gave up waiting for cars with two year back orders. A wealthy Canadian, Walter Wolf,  played a major role is supporting Lamborghini and developing the Countach during these difficult times.

Lamborghini History - Lamborghini Diablo

In 1978 the company declared bankruptcy. An Italian court was appointed to find a buyer.  A Swiss based group called the Mimran brother's were able to save the factory. Patrick Mimran (one of the brothers),  in 1980 started to turn the company around. The Countach was developed further under him from the LP500 S right up to the impressive QuattroValvole. .

Just as things were going well, the Mimran brothers sold the company to Chrysler Corporation.  This was a big surprise at the time.  Chrysler support however was just what the company needed at that time. They were working on a Countach successor --  the Diablo. Chrysler kept the winning team together in Italy. While the cultures of the two companies were different and things got stressful between the management groups, they did succeed in bringing the vast resources of Chrysler to bear on the  design, pollution controls, and new manufacturing techniques etc. for the new car.

Again the result was an outstanding success. The new Lamborghini Diablo got rave reviews everywhere it went.  However in another twist of faith, in 1994 Chrysler fell upon hard times and had to sell the company. It was bought by an Indonesian investment group headed by Tommy Suharto of the well known Suharto family.  Unfortunately in the late 90's an economical crisis started to hit the Indonesian owners hard and the much needed money for research on a successor to the Diablo started to dry up.

Fortunately the German company Audi had an interest in Lamborghini. On August 4 1998, in a complex series of transactions Audi AG became the sole owner of Automobili Lamborghini. As in the case of the Chrysler buyout, this could not have been a better time for Lamborghini. Audi took an active role in designing the Murcielago and brought to the table again the vast resources of a major automobile company to develop and produce another exotic car.

Lets hope this is the last chapter of ownership changes in this unique little Italian car company.  It is to the credit of the people there that they have hung in to all the changes of ownership they have experienced over the years and yet produced such exciting cars.

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The History Of Automobile (car) part 3

The History Of Automobile (car) part 3 - The Car Changed The County, Town by Town.

In 1903, in Winfield, Might Mr. H. T. Trice is seen standing in from of the first car in town. Actually it was more like a truck and was used to transportation clients out to see land. The railroads introduced potential clients to town and Mr. Trice selected them up at the store and took them out to his new improvements.

Steam energy was widely used in the 1880's and 1890's on the farming of The america of america. Cowley Nation had its share of these behemoths and had a huge individuals with the ability to use, and the expertise to fix and repair them. The smaller, less expensive automobile, with an car engine provided a new opportunity of interest that was much more personal than the vapor engine with its group of guests.

Mr. Martin Baden of Winfield, Might and his new eight-cylinder Comes royce roadster. This car was especially designed for Mr. Baden, and was prepared with all modern equipment. Driving an automobile required a higher degree to technical skill, technical expertise, special outfits such as hat, safety gloves, trench cover coat, glasses and shoes. Tires were infamously not reliable and changing one was an agonizing experience. Fuel was a problem, since petrol was scarce. Mr. Baden became interested enough to become a self-taught geologist and gradually discover major oil remains in Cowley Nation, Might, and region.

The motorists of the day were an amazing lot, going out in every kind of climate, unsecured by an internal body system, or even a sports convertible top. Everyone in town realized who possessed what car and the vehicles were soon to become each individuals symbol of identification. Notice the guy at the far right solving his smooth time. The dust streets were a task in any climate. By 1910 Winfield introduced the town center streets with rock, village pets were no longer welcome. The mule attracted carts were improved to electric powered streetcars.

By 1915 rushing had become a interest all over the U. s. Declares. A common regional track was at the Cowley Nation Fairgrounds in Winfield, Might. The regional attraction with equine rushing, started by the first residents in 1870, transformed to the new technological innovation of automatic rushing. Local village young boys who were familiar with engines and equipment used their abilities on vehicles and motorbikes to go quicker than anyone in the county.

The equine rushing features were quickly transformed to the new, quicker, more risky, and thus more exciting, engine rushing. See Bob Lawrence's Home Page  for new segments on both Auto Racing and Motorcycle Racing in Cowley Nation, Kansas

Eventually the automobile change the face of little town The america of america. The town gentry bought vehicles, albiet fashoned to match their position in lifestyle. In Winfield, Might, Main Street went from a collecting position for individuals and village pets and wagons to a vehicle parking position for the popular automobile. The Island Cars were removed to make room for more vehicles. The rock streets were protected with concrete to provide a better drive for the automobile. The old flame charts of Winfield display the inexorable propagate of the automobile and all of the assisting businesses. Stuffing programs, automatic traders, battery power programs, oil depots all increased and extended to dislodge to mature technology of the day. R. B. Sandford's Winfield Carriage Works appears on the fire-map of Prevent 127 in 1918. But on the same spot on Prevent 127 in 1925 it has been changed by a Battery Station and an Auto Storage service.

Midway through the millennium, vehicles had become a central feature of lifestyle for adolescents. The vehicles possessed by the learners of Winfield High School in the sixties are common of every where in The america of america in those days. It was flexibility, position, task, and social independence. It certainly harm our soccer group at enough time. A common reason for not playing on the soccer group was that a student had to perform to generate income to pay for their car. When requested why they needed a car, the answer was invariably: to get to work!

After a millennium of the automobile, we can start to evaluate the effects of lengthy lasting transportation by car. Nearly every aspect of our lives has designed around this technological innovation. Only now, are we seeing new digital devices technology, of the internet and beyond, that may gradually dislodge some of the features of the automobile and substitute our current problems with a new set that you, our grand kids, will be billed with solving. Ask your grandma and grandpa about their first car. I'm sure you will get to listen to a great tale.

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The History Of Automobile (car) part 2

The History Of Automobile (car) part 2 - The first automobile to move under its own energy for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas John Cugnot and designed by M. Brezin in 1769. A duplicate of this automobile is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in London, uk. I believe that the Smithsonian Art gallery in California D. C. also has a huge (half size ?) range style. A second unit was designed in 1770 which considered 8000 pounds and had a top rate on 2 mph and on the cobble rock streets of London, uk this was probably as fast as anyone wanted to go it. The image reveals the first style on its first generate around London, uk were it hit and broken down a rock wall. It also had a propensity to tip over frontward unless it was counterweighted with a cannon in the returning. the purpose of the automobile was to transportation canons around town.

The beginning vapor operated vehicles were so huge that they were only realistic on a completely smooth operating surface as strong as metal. A road thus created out of metal paths became the standard for the next hundred and 25 decades or so. The vehicles got bigger and bulkier and more highly effective and as such they were gradually capable of taking a train of many vehicles loaded with shipping and travelers.

As the image at the right reveals, many efforts were being created in England by the 1830's to develop a realistic automobile that didn't need paths. A sequence of injuries and propaganda from the recognized railroads triggered a quantity of limited regulation to be approved and the growth of the automobile side stepped England. Several commercial vehicles were designed but they were more like teaches without paths.

The growth of the car engine had to wait until a petrol was available to get rid of internal. Gunpowder was tried but didn't perform out. Gunpowder carburetors are still nearly impossible to find. The first gas really did use gas. They used fossil fuel gas produced by heating fossil fuel in a stress boat or furnace. A Frenchman known as Etienne Lenoir trademarked the first realistic gas engine in London, uk in 1860 and forced a car depending on the style from London, uk to Joinville in 1862. His one-half hp engine had a carried of 5 inches wide and a 24 inches action. It was big and huge and transformed 100 rpm. Lenoir approved away split in 1900.

Lenoir had a individual procedure to pack the gas before burning. In 1862, Alphonse Keep de Rochas realized out how to pack the gas in the same cyndrical pipe in which it was to get rid of, which is the way we still do it. This process of providing the gas into the cyndrical pipe, contracting it, combusting the compacted combination, then stressful it is know as the Otto pattern, or four pattern engine. Lenoir stated to have run the car on benzene and his sketches display a powered ignite key. If so, then his automobile was the first to run on oil centered petrol, or petrol, or what we call gas, brief for petrol.

Siegfried Marcus, of Mecklenburg, designed a can in 1868 and revealed one at the Vienna Display of 1873. His later car was known as the Strassenwagen had about 3/4 hp at 500 rpm. It ran on raw wood made wheels with metal wheels and ceased by pushing wood made prevents against the metal wheels, but it had a clutch system, a differential and a magneto key. One of the four vehicles which Marcus designed is in the Vienna Specialized Art gallery and can still be motivated under its own energy.

In 1876, Nokolaus Otto trademarked the Otto pattern engine, de Rochas had ignored to do so, and this later became the basis for Daimler and Benz breaking the Otto certain by declaring prior art from de Rochas.

The image to the remaining, taken in 1885, is of Gottllieb Daimler's class in Bad Cannstatt where he designed the wood made motorbike shown. Daimler's son John rode this motorbike from Cannstatt to Unterturkheim and returning on Nov 10, 1885. Daimler used a hot pipe key system to get his engine rate up to 1000 rpm

The previous Aug, Karl Benz had already motivated his light, tubular mounted trike around the Neckar area, only 60 kilometers from where Daimler resided and worked. They never met. Frau Berta Benz took Karl's car one night and created the first lengthy car trip to see her mother, journeying 62 kilometers from Mannheim to Pforzheim in 1888.

Also in Aug 1888, Bill Steinway, proprietor of Steinway & Children grand piano producer, discussed to Daimler about US production right and by Sept had a cope. By 1891 the Daimler Motor Organization, possessed by Steinway, was generating petrol google for tramway vehicles, carriages, quadricycles, flame google and vessels in a flower in Hartford, CT.

Steam vehicles had been designed in The america of america since before the Municipal War but the beginning one were like small engines. In 1871, Dr. J. W. Carhart, lecturer of science at Wi Condition School, and the J. I. Case Organization designed a operating vapor car. It was realistic enough to motivate the Condition of Wi to provide a $10,000 award to the champion of a 200 distance competition in 1878.>(see more on J. W. Carhart tale from Fredric Dennis Williams)

The 200 distance competition had seven records, or which two revealed up for the competition. One car was provided by the town of Natural Bay and the other by the town of Oshkosh. The Natural Bay car was the quickest but split down and the Oshkosh car finished with an average rate of 6 mph.

From now until the end of the millennium, nearly every community in The america of america had a mad researcher operating on a vapor car. Many old news documents tell experiences about the tests and breakdowns of these would be creators.

By 1890 Ransom E. Olds had designed his second vapor operated car, shown at remaining. One was marketed to a customer in Indian, but the deliver it was on was lost at sea.

Running by Feb, 1893 and ready for road tests by Sept, 1893 the car designed by Charles and Honest Duryea, bros, was the first petrol operated car in The america of america. The first run on public streets was created on Sept 21, 1893 in Springfield, MA. They had bought a used equine attracted cart for $70 and set up a 4 HP, individual cyndrical pipe petrol engine. The car (buggy) had a rubbing transmitting, apply carburetor and low stress key. It must not have run very well because Honest didn't generate it again until Nov 10 when it was revealed by the Springfield Morning Union paper. This car was put into storage space in 1894 and remained there until 1920 when it was saved by Inglis M. Uppercu and provided to the U. s. Declares National Art gallery.

Henry Ford had an engine operating by 1893 but it was 1896 before he designed his first car. By the end of the season Honda had marketed his first car, which he known as a Quadracycle, for $200 and used the cash to develop another one. With the budgets of the Gran of Detroit, Bill C. Maybury and other rich Detroiters, Honda established the Detroit Automobile Organization in 1899. A few prototypes were designed but no growth vehicles were ever created by the corporation. It was demolished in Jan 1901. Honda would not provide a car for sale until 1903.

The first shut routine automobile competition held at Narragansett Recreation area, Rhode Isle, in Sept 1896. All four vehicles to the remaining are Duryeas, on the right is a Morris & Salom Electrobat. 13 Duryeas of the same style were created in 1896, making it the first growth car.

At remaining is shown the maker with created the 13 Duryeas. In 1898 the bros went their individual ways and the Duryea Motor Cart Organization was shut. Charles, who was created in 1861 and was eight decades mature than Honest had taken advantage of Honest in advertising and patents. Honest went out on his own and gradually signed up with with Stevens Hands and Tool Organization to kind the Stevens-Duryea Organization which was marketed to Westinghouse in 1915. Charles tried to produce some of his own hare-brained ideas with various companies until 1916. Thereafter he restricted himself to writing technical book and articles. He approved away in 1938. Honest got a 500, 000 dollars for the Westinghouse cope and resided in comfort until his loss of life in 1967, just seven months from his 98th wedding.

In this inscribing Ransom Eli Olds is at the tiller of his first petrol operated car. Driving beside him is Honest G. Clark, who designed the body system and in the returning are their spouses. This car was operating by 1896 but growth of the Olds Motor Vehicle Organization of Detroit did not start until 1899. After an beginning failing with luxury vehicles they recognized the first really successful growth with the traditional Rounded Sprint Oldsmobile.

The Rounded Sprint Oldsmobile had only one cyndrical pipe engine, tiller guiding and sequence generate. It marketed for $650. In 1901 600 were marketed and the next decades were 1902 - 2,500, 1903 - 4,000, 1904 - 5,000. In Aug 1904 Ransom Olds remaining the firm to kind Reo (for Ransom Eli Olds). Ransom E. Olds was the first mass producer of petrol operated vehicles in the U. s. Declares, even though Duryea was the first automatic producer with their 13 vehicles.

Ransom Olds created some energy source around the turn of the millennium. Little is known about them and none endure. The image at remaining is the only known image of one of these unusual vehicles. It was taken at was taken at Belle Isle Recreation area, The state of michigan. In 1899 and 1900, electrics sold more copies than all other kind of vehicles and the most popular electric powered was the Mexico designed by Colonel Jordan Augustus Pope, proprietor of U. s. states Bike Organization.

J. A. Koosen and H. Lawson in a 1895 Lutzmann. This is common of U. s. states style in the mid 1890's. It was truly a horseless cart. Tiller guiding, engine under the floormats, very great center of severity, not designed for road travel. Imagine going up the into one of these and trying to generate across town and around a few sides. Type of terrifying, huh?

This Daimler of 1899 was possessed by Lionel Rothchild. The Western style is much innovative of the U. s. states styles of one time. Gottlieb Daimler took part in the London-to-Brighton run in 1896 but approved away in 1900 at the age of 66 without ever conference Benz. His German created google operated the automobile sectors of England and Portugal.

The 1908 Haynes in the history reveals the fast growth of the petrol operated car when compared to the 1894 style in the forefront. Consider the present distinction between a 1998 Tarus and the 14 season old 1984 Tarus. Some distinction. Old man Haynes stated to have develop the 1894 car in 1893 but had no evidence.

The Comes Royce Gold Spider of 1906 was a six cyndrical pipe car that remained in growth until 1925. It showed the best technological innovation and technological innovation available at enough some time to these vehicles still run easily and quietly today. This period noticeable the end of the beginning of the automobile.

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The History Of Automobile (car) part 1

The History Of Automobile (car) part 1 - Some of Italians documented styles for wind motivated vehicles. The earliest is Guido da Vigevano in 1335. kind generate to equipment and thus to wheels, it was a wind turbine. Then, Vaturio intended a similar automobile which was also never designed. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork motivated trike with tiller guiding and a differential procedure between the returning wheels.

A Catholic clergyman known as Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have designed a vapor operated automobile for the China Emperor Chien Bronchi in about 1678. There is no information about the automobile, only the event. Since Johnson Newcomen  didn't develop his first vapor engine until 1712 we can think that this was possibly a style automobile operated by a procedure like Hero's vapor engine, a rotating rim with airplanes on the outside. Newcomen's engine had a cyndrical pipe and a aide and was the first of this kind, and it used vapor as a condensing agent to kind a machine and with an expense walking gleam, pull on a rod to raise water. It was an tremendous thing and was totally fixed. The vapor was not under stress, just an open furnace piped to the cyndrical pipe. It used the same machine concept that Johnson Savery  had trademarked to raise water straight with the machine, which would have restricted his push to less than 32 feet of raise. Newcomen's raise would have only been restricted by the length of the rod and the strength of the device at the bottom. Somehow Newcomen was not able to individual his innovation from that of Savery and had to pay for Savery's privileges. In 1765 Wayne W  designed the first condensed vapor engine which turned out to be much more efficient and lightweight that the Newcomen engine.

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