Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer, based in the small township of Sant'Agata Bolognese. Founded by industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini in 1963, the company has achieved widespread recognition for its sleek, exotic designs, and its cars have become symbols of performance and wealth.

History
The story of the automaker begins with Ferruccio Lamborghini, the child of grape farmers in the commune of Renazzo di Cento, in the province of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. Not wishing to continue in the farming life of his parents, he attended the Fratelli Taddia Institute near Bologna, graduating with a degree in industrial technology in 1940, and was promptly drafted into the Italian Air Force.

Ferruccio's increasing wealth allowed him to purchase faster, more expensive cars than the tiny Fiats he tinkered with during his youth. He owned Alfa Romeos and Lancias during the early 1950s, and at one point, had enough cars to use a different one every day of the week. While he thought the Ferraris to be good cars, Ferruccio found that their clutches weren't up to scratch; he was continuously forced to return to Maranello for clutch rebuilds.

Incensed, Ferruccio returned to Pieve di Cento, where he and his workers at the tractor factory opened up one of his 250GTs and starting working on it. The simple single overhead camshaft cylinder heads were replaced with custom units, and six horizontally-mounted dual carburetors were mounted to the V12 engine. Lamborghini would take the upgraded car out to the motorway entrance near Modena, and wait for Ferrari's test drivers to appear. According to Ferruccio, the modifications made his car at least 25 km/h (16 mph) faster than the factory's own cars, and it could easily outrun the testers in their stock machines. At that point, Lamborghini later said, he got the idea that he could simply make the cars himself. Thus, Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. was born.