Re: Lamborghini

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

Yes, yes, I know.  My point was that "Lamborghini" still makes 
tractors in the same sense that "Lamborghini" still makes cars. 
Since Sig. Lamborghini has been dead for almost a decade I think it's 
safe to say that neither the tractors nor the automobiles are "real" 
Lamborghinis, right?

Ironically, it was a tractor deal gone bad (the Bolivian government 
ordered 5000 tractors and then got overthrown before they paid for 
them) that essentially forced Sig. Lamborghini to sell his 
money-losing car company, or at least 51% of it, to Swiss investors 
in 1972.

At 9:28 AM -0500 2/26/02, alfa-digest wrote:
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:53:30 -0800
>From: Steven Luftman <sluftman@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: Lamborghini
>
>Lamborghini, the money loosing car manufacture is now separate from
>Lamborghini tractors. Sig. Lamborghini made a fortune on tractors and lost a
>lot of money making cars, so the car portion of the Company went though a
>lot of owners from Chrysler to the current owner Volkswagen, and quite a few
>in between.
>
>
>- --
>Steven Luftman <sluftman@domain.elided>
>1961 Giulietta Spider
>1992 164L
>
>on 2/23/02 8:40 PM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 18:57:49 -0500
> > From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> > Subject: re: Lamborghini
> >
> > At 6:33 PM -0500 2/23/02, alfa-digest wrote:
> >> Lamborghini hasn't sold the LM 002 for over 10 years and hasn't been
> >> in the tractor business for over 20.
> >
> > Eh... http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com
> > ( http://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/eng/club_gioco.html is lots of fun. )

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