Such was the success of his new business that in 1960 Lamborghini was already the third Italian industrialist in the field of construction of agricultural machinery, especially tractors. With the profits obtained, Ferruccio began an opulent life, acquiring some properties, and especially many sports cars like Mercedes, Lancia, Maserati and Ferrari.
In the words of the same Lamborghini: "The Ferrari only created problems". "One day, already sick of sending them to the workshop, I called Enzo to tell him that his cars were just garbage." "And he told me that a tractor manufacturer could not understand their cars." From this curious discussion, the angry owner began to engineer the idea of making sports cars to compete with the Cavallino Rampante brand.
Parallel to supercars with a V12 engine, another less powerful and "accessible" model was being developed, such as the Urraco with V8 engine (1972). All these names are Spanish, related to bullfighting, which was Ferruccio's passion. Miura is an ancient breeder of brave bulls; Islero was a famous animal that killed the famous torero Manolete. In general each name is taken from a brave bull "pardoned"; This is that he has been forgiven his life for his bravery and courage (will be destined to stallion) in the fight against the matador, characteristics related to cars, always according to Ferruccio. Hence the coat of arms of the company named "Raging Bull".
Already in the 1990s (when it had an ephemeral appearance in Formula 1) would appear the substitute of Countach; Was the spectacular Lamborghini Diablo (the name Diablo comes from a brave animal of the nineteenth century that was fought by the bullfighter Chicorro), which claimed for itself, as was customary in the models with V12 engine of this brand, the title of car Of the fastest production in the world, surpassing the 320 km / h
Por Fran Martínez Feijoo
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