Lamborghini, or Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. as it's officially called, produces some of the most exciting sports cars in the word. Some of the newer Lamborghini models would be the Countach, the Diablo, the Gallardo and the Murcielago.

Fact 1: Lamborghini is named after the founder of the organization Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916-1993). Ferruccio Lamborghini founded the organization in 1963 when he was 47 years old. The factory is located in a small Italian village called Sant'Agata Bolognese near Bologna.

Fact 2: Ferruccio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer before he got interested in sports cars. His interest in sports cars made him buy a variety of high-performance cars including both Maseratis and Ferraris, but he was never really happy with some of them and therefore decided to built their own, perfect low rider,

Fact 3: Lamborghini used to be an independent company, but today it is really 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 quite a long time before Audi AG became the only real owner of the company.

Fact 4: The fastest Lamborghini may be the Le Mans version of the Murcielago R-GT model. It's been reported to truly have a top speed of 370 km/h. The fastest street model from Lamborghini may be the Murcielago LP640 by having an estimated top speed of 340 km/h. Both of the models have a V12 engine with increased than 6000 cc.

Fact 5: Several of the newer Lamborghini models feature the familiar Lamborghini scissor doors that rotate up and forward on a joint near leading of the door. The Countach, the Diablo and the Murcielago all have scissor doors, but the Gallardo does not. Both Countach and the Diablo are no further being produced, and so the Murcielago is the only real current model with scissor doors.

Fact 6: No Lamborghini have ever been produced with less than a V8 engine  Lamborghini Rental Near Me.All the Lamborghini models through the history of the organization attended with the legendary Lamborghini V12 engine, but the modern model, Gallardo, just have a V10 engine. No Lamborghini models with a V8 engine have been since production of the Silhouette stopped in 1989.

Fact 7: The very first Lamborghini was the 350GTV from 1963. It was fast because of its time with a high speed of 280 km/h. In 1964 a smaller version of the 350GTV appeared. The smaller version was called 350GT and had a high speed of 240 km/h. The Countach from 1974 was the first Lamborghini to go faster than 300 km/h.

Fact 8: In 1975 did Walter Wolf, a rich Canadian businessman and F1 racing team owner, persuade Lamborghini to create three super powered Countach models. The Wolf Countach had exactly the same engine as the first Countach prototype and were able to reach a high speed of 315 km/h.