Ferruccio Lamborghini

1916–1993 · Italian (Emilia-Romagna) · 20th Century

Known for: Started a car company to spite Enzo Ferrari — the tractor maker who built the world's most exotic supercars out of pure revenge

Ferruccio Lamborghini was a tractor manufacturer who bought a Ferrari, complained about the clutch, was dismissed by Enzo Ferrari ('You're a tractor maker. What do you know about sports cars?'), and founded Lamborghini to prove him wrong. The Miura, Countach, and later models became icons.

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The “if they lived today” Q&A on this page gives Ferruccio Lamborghini Ford v Ferrari (2019) as a favourite film. Their reason: “Both of them are wrong. I am right.” Rankquant scores it above 92% of films, drawn from 1,410 IMDb reviewers individually re-centred rather than averaged raw. The full film & TV rankings are built the same way.

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