Talk:Lamborghini
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I think the VW template is really out of place, with its links to Golfs etc. We just need a link to the Volkswagen Group page, or perhaps a "tab bar" for all the marques owned by VW. It would be more useful to have a specific Lamborghini template, along the lines of Template: Ferrari vehicles. -- Hotlorp 11:29, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What's the meaning of S.p.A.?
S.p.A is the Itallian equivalent of Ltd or plc.
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[edit] Roadsters?
- Should the Roadster variants be classified as different cars under the list of vehicles or should someone create a different page devoted solely to other versions of Lamborghinis? Wubblu 21:39, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Lamborghini ust to make tractors. http://common.weblogsinc.com/common/images/1512065652017376.JPG?0.49239837835354644
[edit] Police Lamborghini
Are any Lamborghini cars used as police cars?
Yes. There are currently 2 Lamborghini Gallardos being used by the Italian Police
[edit] Snob's Comment
"Ferruccio Lamborghini went to meet Enzo Ferrari at the Ferrari factory to complain about the quality of the clutch in Lamborghini's Ferrari 250 GT." this confuses me.Snob 09:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I believe what they are trying to say is that Lamborghini (the man not the company) owned a Ferrari. The clutch in his Ferrari was acting up, so he went to talk with Enzo Ferrari regarding the issue. GZAdmin 16:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- In the version of the legend that I read (the source may have been from Road & Track or Car and Driver, I'm not sure which...) Ferruccio Lamborghini owned as many as four Ferraris, which he generally liked but found fault with. He gave his opinions to Enzo Ferrari who got irate and insulted him, notoriously saying that he did not know how to drive Ferraris, he only knew how to drive tractors.
- From sources I cannot remember (hence I have not included the statement in the article), Lamborghini's response to this was to "build better Ferraris than Ferrari."
- Lamborghini also believed that Ferrari's obsession with motor racing blinded him to the demands of his customers. This belief was behind his decision that the Lamborghini factory would not be involved in motor racing.
- Respectfully, SamBlob 02:20, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Organized images
The lead is messed up with an overabundance of images. Fix it please, or I will. - RoyBoy 800 04:58, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] asus lamborghini
should we include information on the Asus Lamborghini (a partnership between asus and lamborghini in making laptops) ?
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=2070
- No. The Lamborghini badge can't be difficult to buy because it is on shoes, watches,... and trinkets, none of which seem underpriced. Asus make laptops in Taiwan and would like us to know that their laptops "have inherited all the striking traits of a true Lamborghini". Since when is badge licensing a partnership?Cuddlyable3 13:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tranverse engine
"The car's engine was transversely mounted, something that up to then was exclusive to Formula 1 race cars."
Very, very wrong. I can think of only one F1 car ever that had a transversely mounted engine - Honda's 1965 car (see [1]), but other than that they are invariably longitudinally mounted. See Transverse engine for what looks like a more accurate history of the configuration. I have deleted the reference to F1 from the article. --4u1e 06:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Check your reading comprehension. That the style of engine mounting was "exclusive to Formula 1" does not imply that all Formula 1 cars had them. So your quoted source is merely reinforcing that claim. In order for the claim to be false, you would have to show that a non-Formula 1 car had transverse mounting prior to the Lamborghini.
- The 1959 Morris Mini Minor had a transverse-mounted engine before Lamborghini started to make cars. True, it was a transverse-mounted front engine powering the front wheels, but it was still a transverse engine.Respectfully, SamBlob 02:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How much was the Miura again?
"The Miura was an absolute success for Lamborghini, 111 were sold in 1967, and propelled the company into the world of hundred-million-dollar supercar manufacturers."
That line seems to imply that the Miura is a hundred-million-dollar supercar, which I do not think is correct. If the intention is to say that the company was a hundred-million-dollar "supercar manufacturer", then the wording needs to be revised to clarify which words are adjectives and which are nouns.
[edit] External Link
Hi i have currently made a new exotic car site here. I was wanting to add the relevant pages to relevant wiki pages and wondering if thats ok to do so? Please let me know.
Thanks
Richard
- Have a dig around for the policy on external links. My guess is that your site won't meet them. Cheers Greglocock 01:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Build Quality
The statement: "Like many other exotic Italian automobiles, the quality of construction and of the components used were often of poor quality" is highly disputable. Lamborghinis were built in limited-run small batches (as were other exotic cars); build, assembly and finish quality were allegedly very high. ````--Defone 08:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Don't think so. 1985 Countach was pretty ropy in parts, and the chassis design/workmanship was about at the level of garden furniture or typical AC Cobra reproductions from small workshops today. Not that road-car Ferraris were much better. Greglocock 10:56, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
How many days within the past three months has this page not been vandalized? Is there any effective way to stop it short of finding every individual vandal and making each one an offer he/she can't refuse? Respectfully, SamBlob 01:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
