Lamborghini

Lamborghini Murcielago

The Lamborghini Murcielago is a very nice car. It’s a very fast car and is one of the fastest it can go up to 232mph at

full speed. The first Lamborghini was made in the early 1963 by a man named Ferruccio Lamborghini.

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.

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.

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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1_Who made the Lamborghini? Ferruccio Lamborghini

2_How fast is the Lamborghini? 232 mph

3_When was the first Lamborghini made? 1963